The Center strengthens resiliency and mental health in partnership with communities. The Center houses UCLA clinical faculty that includes adult psychiatrists and psychologists, child and geriatric psychiatry specialists, and staff, including doctoral level social scientists, master's level statisticians, and research and administrative staff.

The Center conducts research to understand how health services are delivered and to improve health services for persons with psychiatric and neurologic disorders across the lifespan. Our focus ranges from access to care to how parity legislation and consumer education affects access, costs, quality and outcomes of services provided. While the Center has focused mainly on depression, schizophrenia and dementia, we also conduct studies on post-traumatic stress disorder, attention deficit disorder, panic disorders and other psychiatric and neurologic disorders.

News/Events

The Washington Post, in their coverage of the Obama administration's proposed increases in mental health services accompanying their gun control initiatives, has referred to the Center's Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS) program as, "Perhaps the program most suited to Obama's goals." Read the whole story. Retrieved January 17, 2013.

Dr. Bonnie Zima received the 2011 Elaine Schlosser Lewis Award for Research on Attention-Deficit Disorder for her article, "Quality of care for childhood attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in a managed care Medicaid program," published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. The award of $5,000 is given annually for the best paper published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry on attention-deficit disorder written by a child and adolescent psychiatrist. Click here to read the abstract.

Congratulations to Center partner Pluscedia Williams - newly-elected president of the National Community-Based Organization Network (NCBON). Click here to read an interview with Ms. Williams in the Fall 2011 issue of the Community-Based Public Health Causus Newsletter.

Dr. Bonnie Zima's article, "A High-Risk Population Revealed" is featured in the Taking Issue section of the June 2011 issue of Psychiatric Services. Click Here to Read Dr. Zima's Article

Dr. Alex Young's EQUIP Weight Implementation abstract was selected as one of the most outstanding abstracts for this June's AcademyHealth. Click Here to read the release.

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