Psychopathology

Catalog description

This course is designed to help students conceptualize mental disorders and abnormal behavior based in a culturally competent, biopsychosocial view of development. This course surveys diagnostic categories including clinical psychopathology, addictions and personality disorders; and introduces students to their hypothesized etiology. Implications for therapeutic models and indications/contra-indications for particular kinds of counseling will be discussed as they apply to a variety of mental disorders. Multicultural and ethical components are integrated.