Healthy Development & Psychopathology

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This course will familiarize counseling students with the major mental disorders, as well as with conceptions of mental health, mental health promotion, resilience and recovery. It is important that counselors, regardless of concentration or specialization, be acquainted with the language, taxonomy, conceptualizations, and developments in the study of psychopathology, as well as a sense of the lived experience of people with mental disorders. Prerequisite: Enrollment in the Executive Program in School and Mental Health Counseling.