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Course Discription |
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The course involves psychopathology is examined using an integrative approach including the biological, psychological, social, cultural, familial, and political forces that currently define abnormal behavior, Subjective and objective diagnosis tools. More specifically, the history, theories, research, DSM IV-TR diagnostic categories, and psychopharmacological treatments are covered. Anxiety, dissociation, mood, eating, substance abuse, sleep, sexual, psychotic, childhood, adolescent, cognitive, personality, impulse control, somatoform, and adjustment disorders are examined. Critical thinking, using clinical examples and case studies, is emphasized |