Topic “Mood disorders”
Youth Stress and Mood Program
Youth Stress and Mood Program
The Youth Stress and Mood Program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is dedicated to research that seeks to better understand the effects of depression, stress, and mood disturbance in children and adolescents.
Headed by Dr. Joan Asarnow, Professor in Residence in the department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA, the Youth Stress and Mood Program is currently engaged in multiple research studies that provide clinical intervention for children and adolescents presenting with depression, stress, suicide, and/or symptoms of mood disturbance. Following an initial evaluation, we may be able to provide services for children and adolescents, which may include individual or family-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. There is no charge for services offered through our studies and eligible participants will instead be financially compensated for participation.
ABC Day Treatment Program
The ABC Program for the Enhancement of Achievement, Behavior, and Cognition offers a day treatment program for short-term, integrated intensive psychological and psychosocial services for children 5 to 12 years old. Located within the Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA the ABC program applies the most current evidence-based treatment to help children and their families. Length of stay is individual to each child, treatment progress, and family’s unique needs. A child’s success at ABC depends greatly on his or her parent’s commitment to the program. Parents attend formal training sessions weekly to provide consistency between the program and the home.
The ABC Day Treatment Program specializes in treatment for children with a variety of conditions including:
- Mood Disorders
- Anxiety Disorders including OCD
- ADHD and problems of impulse control
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASDs)
- Autistic Spectrum Disorders
- Developmental delays
Women's Life Center
The Women's Life Center at The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA is an outpatient program devoted to assessing and treating women with psychiatric conditions associated with hormonal challenges and reproductive life events.
The Women's Life Center at the UCLA Semel Institute and Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital offers a supportive and effective approach to mental health treatment during the special phases of a woman's life:
- premenstrual dysphoric disorder
- premenstrual syndrome
- psychiatric conditions associated with pregnancy and the postpartum (including breast-feeding)
- menopause
- assisted reproductive technology
- infertility
- female-specific benign and malignant diseases.
The Center's expert interdisciplinary staff recognizes that helping women deal successfully with emotional conditions associated with hormonal challenges and reproductive life events requires a flexible, supportive approach customized to the needs of each patient.
Treatments offered include consultation, short-term psychotherapy, medication management and group therapy. All consultations, evaluations and treatments at the Center are performed by a faculty of professionals with expertise in women's mental health.
Members of the staff of the Women's Life Center include psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers. In order to provide comprehensive health care and clinical consultation, the Women's Life Center staff works closely with referring clinicians from the numerous specialties, including:
- Family Medicine
- General Internal Medicine
- Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Reproductive Endocrinology
- Surgery
- Oncology
- Orthopedics
- Mental Health
