Behavioral Medicine

Catalog description

This course is designed to provide the student with tools to evaluate, diagnose, and manage major psychiatric and mental disorders that are common in primary care. Topics will include normal psychological development in the pediatric, adult, and geriatric patient, substance abuse, anxiety, depression, eating disorders, phobias, response to illness, injury, and stress, principles of violence identification and prevention, human sexuality, death and end of life issues including palliative care, psychoses, and personality disorders. Offered fall term each year. Three semester hours.