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This Assistant Research Psychologist will assist Keith Nuechterlein, PhD, the Principal Investigator (PI) and the Director of the UCLA Aftercare Research Program, an outpatient program for recent-onset psychosis located in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and the Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior. The Aftercare Program is a clinical and research program funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the Department of Psychiatry to conduct research with young patients in the early phase of schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder. This position is 75% time. The psychologist in this position will assist the PI in conducting clinical research that focuses on the effects of cognitive training and the enhancing impact of aerobic exercise. More broadly, the research of the Aftercare Program seeks to improve cognitive functioning and promote better daily functioning of individuals recovering from a first psychotic episode. The psychologist will perform clinically related activities such as teaching clinical psychology graduate students to be cognitive coaches, coordinating the weekly cognitive training sessions, and evaluating progress of participants within the cognitive training and exercise programs. The psychologist will also supervise the data collection and data file management of research measures that assess motivation and engagement in cognitive training and aerobic exercise and improvement in cognition and everyday functioning. The psychologist will be a member of the interdisciplinary clinical team of case managers, cognitive and exercise coaches, individual therapists, psychologists, and psychiatrists, who together provide treatment services and conduct clinical research with young patients and their families within the Aftercare Program.
