Behavioral Medicine/Psychiatry

Catalog description

The Behavioral Medicine/Psychiatry course provides students with an introduction to abnormal human behavior and psychopathology. The course is designed to teach student the major concepts and terms in contemporary behavioral science. It will also introduce the techniques in making psychiatric diagnoses. This is followed by detailed descriptions of the major classes of mental disorders, including childhood disorders, schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, the depressive and bipolar disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, personality disorders, and the nature of alcoholism.