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About The Gevirtz School
Clinical Services
Koegel Autism Center
Families with with a child with autism that live in Santa Barbara, Ventura, and San Luis Obispo
counties may set up services through a regional center. In this program, clincians will train you in
pivotal response treatment and help design a program that meets your family’s needs. For more
information, see the Center’s webpage.
Hosford Counseling and Psychological Services Clinic
Residents of Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, as well as UCSB faculty and staff, may receive
mental health and career counseling services at the Hosford Clinic. All services are offered on a
sliding scale basis (insurances are not accepted). Clinicians work with children, adolescents, and
adults in individual, family, and group therapy settings. For more information, see the Clinic’s webpage.
Psychology Assessment Center
Area residents may use PAC to provide psychological assessment services for the measurement of
disorders that affect psychological, emotional, academic, and occupational functioning. Testing is
comprehensive in nature, consisting of multimethod assessment of personality, contextual, neuro
psychological, and intellectual factors. Services are offered on a sliding scale basis (insurances are
not accepted). For more information, see the Center’s webpage.
Eli and Edythe L. Broad Center for Asperger Research
In June 2007 the Eli and Edythe L. Broad Foundation established, within the Koegel Autism Center, a new center of excellence for Asperger research. The purpose and function of the Center is to develop and refine the Koegel’s research-based model for intervention and support for children and Adults with Asperger’s Syndrome. The Center is conducting research and intervention with the purpose of developing a model that can be disseminated nationally, and is moving toward the long-term goal of becoming the largest and most comprehensive clearinghouse in the world on intervention for Asperger’s Syndrome. For more information, see the Center’s webpage.
Spotlight on Clinical Services
Jessica Little Examines the Uses of Collaborative Assessment
“Collaborative Assessment is a form of psychological assessment in which the patient and therapist work cooperatively to complete a test battery and explore the patient’s psychological difficulties.” Jessica A. Little, who just earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology this June, explains.
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