Advanced Study of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders

Catalog description

This course is designed to provide graduate students the opportunity to deeply examine the various psychiatric and emotional disorders than can afflict children during the developmental period between birth and 18 years of age. Both internalizing and externalizing behavior disorders will be analyzed including such disorders as Conduct Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Anxiety Disorder, Depression, Bipolar Disorder, etc. that are all found within the pages of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. A connection between these disorders and the need for special education services in school settings will be made as well as strategies provided for specially designed instruction for students with these disorders. A 48 hour field experience will be required as part of this course. Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.