Diagnosis and Treatment

Catalog description

This course addresses mental health from a variety of perspectives: biological, developmental, cultural, and interactional. It will provide students with a broad theoretical base for understanding mental health from not only an individual descriptive and symptomologic perspective as presented in the DSM-5, but also from a contextual and systemic perspective including developmental hallmarks, familial patterns, and sociocultural contributors. Students will learn to perform individual, relational, and larger systems assessments, including but not limited to a mental status exam and diagnosis using the DSM-5.