L.MHC 625 - Psychopathology

Credits: 3

This course will provide 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. This will include the study of cognitive, behavioral, physiological and interpersonal mechanisms for adapting to change and to stressors and the 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. Students will examine research methods and findings pertinent to the description, and the classification, diagnosis, origin, and course of disorders and dysfunction and address theoretical perspectives relevant to the origin, development, and course and outcomes for the forms of behavior disorders and dysfunction. Finally, methods of intervention or preventions will be covered that are used to minimize and modify maladaptive behaviors, disruptive and distressful cognition, or compromised interpersonal functioning associated with various forms of maladaption.

Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None