CAT 519 01 LG GS16    

Psychopathology & Diagnoses   3.00   01/19/2021   05/08/2021   Lecture

This course is designed to assist students in developing knowledge, skills, and awareness in the following areas: (a) abnormal behavior, psychopathological conditions, and psychological disorders across the life span and (b) the structure and uses of the current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Additional focus will be on the development and recognition of frameworks for identifying symptomology, etiology, and psychodynamics of mental and emotional disorders, as well as the role of counseling and art therapy in the treatment of mental and emotional disorders. Major categories of psychopathology, as well as specific diagnoses, will be contextualized through an integrative review of the biological, developmental, psychological, social, cultural, historical, neuroscientific, and systemic forces.

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