Psychiatry

Catalog description

The focus is to provide medical students an introduction to the fields of Abnormal and Clinical Psychology. The goal is to strengthen foundational medical knowledge with complimentary education in the behavioral sciences as they relate to psychiatric practice. The student will engage in the following activities; individual and group psychotherapy sessions in outpatient and inpatient settings (e.g., outpatient psychotherapy clinic, inpatient psychiatry, consultation-liaison). These psychotherapy experiences will include cognitive-behavioral (and related) treatments for a range of psychiatric disorders (e.g., mood disorders, anxiety disorders, personality disorders, substance use disorders, schizophrenia-spectrum disorders) in patients across a continuum of functional strata and comorbidity (e.g., psychiatric and medical comorbidities). The student will deliver counseling and psychotherapy interventions (under supervision) in these contexts to address treatment goals (e.g., suicide prevention/safety planning, substance abuse counseling, development of coping skills, treatment planning) while working with a multidisciplinary team. The student will receive exposure and practice to psychometric assessment (e.g., cognitive assessment, psychodiagnostic assessment) in the context of psychiatric practice. At completion, the student will have received a broad comprehensive introduction to the more commonly used approaches to psychological assessment, and clinical health psychology. Prerequisite: PYCH 955.