INTEGRATED CLINICAL ASSESSMENT & DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS

Catalog description

This course is intended to provide students with the knowledge, skills, values, and cognitive and affective abilities to conduct diagnostic assessments in a range of clinical settings and roles. Students will learn how to effectively assess issues of diversity that may impact a client's well-being and functioning, including differential manifestation and presentations. Discriminative selection and application of standardized assessment tools used to measure a client's functioning and change will be discussed. A focus on ethical and anti-oppressive considerations associated with diagnosing and labeling individuals with a psychiatric disorder will occur.