Baton Rouge is located on the east bank of the Mississippi River, about 80 miles northwest of New Orleans, It is a university town, a major industrial city, a thriving port, and the capital of Louisiana. The city of Baton Rouge has a metropolitan-area population of more than 500,000. It is rich in history and traditions absorbed from the Spanish conquistadors, the French Acadians, the antebellum plantation era, and the busy life of the river. These influences are apparent in many aspects of life, architecture, speech, religion, politics, and food. Less than an hour's drive north lie the gently rolling hills of the antebellum country of the Feliciana parishes.
Baton Rouge is also within and easy day's drive of Houston, Texas, and the Florida beaches.
This unit is operated by the Department of Psychology for graduate training and research in adult clinical, medical clinical, child clinical, school, and development psychology. The PSC Adult Clinic and Child Clinic provide diagnostic and therapeutic services for adults and children in the Baton Rouge community, excluding students enrolled at LSU, although children of LSU students are seen and referrals by the LSU Student Health Center are taken. The core of graduate training in the PSC is the direct client services provided by clinical practicum students under the supervision of CPTP faculty, and, occasionally, invited professionals from the local community supplement the student's direct clinical experience. Clients of the Adult Clinic presented with a wide variety of problems including manic episodes, residual schizophrenia, unipolar depression, simple phobia, eating disorders, migraine, and other psychophysiological disorders, agoraphobia, various personality disorders, sexual dysfunctions, marital dysfunction, etc. Child Clinic clients presented problems such as oppositional behavior, learning dysfunction, overactivity, social maladjustment, delinquency, simple phobia, etc.