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Dec 21, 2024
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PSY-708 Psychopathology4 semester credits
This course examines approaches to the systematic description of psychological disorders: historical, sociopolitical, ethno-racial, gender, age, SES, medical, behavioral, and epidemiological. Topics include the nosological system (DSM-5), the differential diagnoses among its subcategories, etiology, possible alternatives to the existing system, and research in this field.
Delivery Method: Distance/Electronically Mediated
Grading Default: Letter
Note: Certificate students with a graduate level clinical psychology course in psychopathology within the last 5 years may have this course waived, although they will be expected to complete a half-day workshop on DSM-5 if their prior course did not cover DSM-5.
Learning Outcome(s):
- Be familiar with the historical evolution of definitions of psychopathology.
- Be familiar with the various nosological systems (including DSM-IV and general proposals for the DSM-5 revision).
- Understand the strengths and weaknesses of the present and past nosological systems based on research findings.
- Understand diverse viewpoints of psychopathology from the perspective of major theoretical orientations.
- Be able to formulate cases representing major diagnostic categories from different theoretical orientations.
- Know the prevalence, course, and differential diagnostic and prognostic issues of the major psychological disorders.
- Know how cultural variables, gender, ethno-racial, SES, and age influence the etiology and manifestation of mental illness, including, but not limited to, culture-specific diagnoses.
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