Prospective students

The Teen Resilience Lab is dedicated to training the next generation of clinical & translational psychological scientists. If you are interested in training with our lab, regardless of your stage of training, please complete this form. Someone from our team will contact you when there is a position available that aligns with your training goals and our current projects.

We regularly train post-baccalaureate trainees through the UCI Post-baccalaureate Program in Psychological Science and doctoral students in clinical psychology.

Competitive doctoral applicants to our lab:

– Have doctoral training goals centered on the role of childhood experiences in the development and treatment of internalizing psychopathology with specific interests in modifiable neurobiological mechanisms
– Have a minimum of 2 years of experience working in a research lab
– Can demonstrate that they have pursued an independent research question from hypothesis generation to dissemination (i.e. conference presentation or publication in a peer-reviewed scientific journal)
– Have demonstrated academic excellence in statistics or other quantitative methods, biological psychology / behavioral neuroscience, and experimental research methods

For more information on doctoral training in clinical psychology at UCI, sign up to receive our annual newsletter here or read previous issues here.

For anyone considering applying to doctoral programs in clinical psychology, I strongly recommend Mitch’s Uncensored Advice for Applying to Graduate School in Clinical Psychology