Psychopathology & Behavioral Disorders

Catalog description

This course presents an integrated bio-psycho-socio-cultural model of psychopathology. After critiquing the strengths and weaknesses of DSM-5 and ICD-10, this course focuses on the etiology of and diagnostic criteria for the most prevalent psychiatric disorders of adulthood and childhood, including: neurodevelopmental, schizophrenia spectrum, bipolar, depressive, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, trauma and stressor-related, dissociative, somatic, eating, sexual, gender dysphoric, impulse, substance-related, neurocognitive, and personality disorders. Through the use of clinical vignettes, students will further develop their capacity for making reliable differential diagnoses. In order to encompass a diversity of viewpoints, as well as identifying cultural expressions of distress, the treatment of psychopathology is presented from biological, cognitive-behavioral, feminist, and psychodynamic perspectives.