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About Us

The Control Center is an integrated outpatient treatment center specializing in behavioral/process addictions and chemical addictions (official website). We are currently looking for a part-time receptionist position with room for growth into upper management.

The Ideal Candidate

An ideal candidate would have excellent people skills, a service oriented attitude and research skills. He/she would be skilled in all Microsoft Office programs, and be comfortable with multi-tasking and trouble-shooting many tasks at a time. Ideal candidate will have a very strong work ethic, willingness to do whatever is asked, and a proactive approach to position. Some experience with research and an interest or knowledge of neuroscience and addictions is a plus. Hours are Monday and Wednesday 11am to 8pm. Thursday 2 hours, time flexible.

The first is a position in a private mental health clinic as a receptionist, and the second is for the UCLA Gambling Studies Program looking for work study students for the summer.

The Control Center
Dr. Reef Karim
PH: 310-271-8700
Fax: 310-271-8703

Research Project Description

Interested in how couples interact in everyday life? Curious about how marital support influences health and well-being? Enjoy watching reality TV? This study of naturalistic marital support uses a really interesting and novel dataset of videotaped family interactions that were filmed in families’ homes as they went about their everyday lives. We are studying what these supportive interactions look like in the real-world, outside of what researchers have found in laboratory studies, and investigating the linkages between naturalistic support, marital satisfaction, health, and well-being. RAs will receive mentored training in naturalistic observational research methods in a friendly research group headed by a clinical graduate student (Shu-wen Wang, M.A.) working with Professor Rena Repetti. The project provides excellent exposure to couples research at the intersection of clinical, social, and health psychology.

RA Responsibilities

RAs’ main responsibility is to code marital support interactions. There is also some light data management that accompanies the coding efforts. All RAs are expected to devote 8 hours per week to the project, that consist of approximately: 5 hours of coding, 2 hours of partner meeting, 1 hour of team meeting. RA hours are fairly flexible. You are required to attend a scheduled 1 hour team meeting (for Summer Session C, this has been scheduled for Wednesdays 1:15-2:15), but your own coding is completed on your own schedule and your partner meetings are flexibly scheduled with your partner.

Who Should Apply

1. No prior research experience is necessary, but potential RAs must be dedicated, motivated, responsible, and enthusiastic about gaining research experience.
2. You must be able to commit Summer Session C, Fall 2010, and Winter 2011 to working on the study. This means a continued 8 hour weekly commitment. I CANNOT replace RAs part-way through the study so your ability to make this commitment is critical.
3. You may receive research units OR volunteer as an RA.

How to Apply

Interested applicants should email Shu-wen Wang, M.A., at shuwenwang[at]ucla.edu with a resume and DPR. We will schedule a very brief interview, and we will begin training starting Summer Session C.

The UCLA Childhood OCD, Anxiety, and Tic Disorders Program at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior is currently looking for research assistants for the summer. Incumbents can receive Psych 196 research credit as a research assistant.

Research Project Description

We are an outpatient clinical research program at NPI that specializes in the study and treatment of anxiety and related disorders in children and adolescents up to the age of 18. Our primary goal is to provide effective treatments for youngsters suffering from anxiety disorders, including obsessive-compulsive disorder, Tourettes and other tic disorders, and Selective Mutism. Currently our program has several NIMH funded multi-site research studies.

Student Responsibilities

Students will have the opportunity work on treatment studies for children/adolescents diagnosed with various anxiety disorders. Student’s primary responsibilities include scoring clinical measures, data entry and management, as well as some administrative/clerical tasks. As students gain experience, more clinical interactions with children may become available. Great opportunity for those interested in gaining research experience for graduate school as well as those interested in learning more about treatment focused research.

If you are interested, please contact either one of us (e-mail is preferable):
(1) Monica Wu
MonicaWu[at]ucla.edu
(2) Mina Yadegar
myadegar[at]mednet.ucla.edu

We hope to hear from you soon!

Best wishes,
Monica Wu & Mina Yadegar
UCLA Childhood OCD, Anxiety, and Tic Disorders Program
300 Medical Plaza Suite 1315
Los Angeles, CA 90095

Children’s Emotion Regulation: A Naturalistic Study of Negative Emotions Expressions in the Home

This is a descriptive study based on a naturalistic video-based investigation of children and parents in their homes. For one week, videographers filmed parents and their children (aged 8-12) in their homes and in community settings. We will be examining instances of children’s expressions of negative emotions in 30 families by watching video footage and coding a series of descriptive variables, such as the cause, target, duration, and intensity of the expressions. This study will help to develop a broader picture of how, when, and why children express negative emotions and how these variables are associated with mood and anxiety and physiological stress indices. Emotion expression in children is typically examined in laboratory settings or via self-report measures, so this will give RAs an opportunity to be involved in a novel approach to emotion research. There is a possibility for RAships to extend into Fall quarter if students are interested in continuing with the next stages of the project.

Requirements

1. 8-10 hours per week throughout the summer sessions (hours are flexible except for one hour weekly meeting to be scheduled).
2. No research experience required.

How to Apply

Please send a resume and an unofficial copy of your grades or degree progress report to meredithsears[at]ucla.edu