L.MHC 625 - Psychopathology

Credits: 3

This course provides an understanding of emotional and mental disorders experienced by persons of all ages, characteristics of disorders, and common nosologies of emotional and mental disorders utilized within the U. S. health care system for diagnosis and treatment planning. Studies in this area include, but are not limited to, the following:

Study of cognitive, behavioral, physiological and interpersonal mechanisms for adapting to change and to stressors;
Role of genetic, physiological, cognitive, environmental and interpersonal factors and their interactions on development of the form, severity, course and persistence of the various types of disorders and dysfunction;
Research methods and findings pertinent to the description, classification, diagnosis, origin, and course of disorders and dysfunction;
Theoretical perspectives relevant to the origin, development, and course and outcome for the forms of behavior disorders and dysfunction; and
Methods of intervention or prevention used to minimize and modify maladaptive behaviors, disruptive and distressful cognition, or compromised interpersonal functioning associated with various forms of maladaptation.

Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None