Course Description
Surveys, historical trends, and contemporary theories of psychopathology; reviews methods, issues, validity, and utility of classificatory systems; evaluates the intrinsic-attribute properties of various behavior disorders as well as related assessment; and treatment procedures.
Athena Title
ADV PSYCHOP ADULT
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in PSYC 8140
Prerequisite
PSYC 3230 and permission of department
Semester Course Offered
Not offered on a regular basis.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
By the end of this course, students should have learned: 1. To provide an overview of theories of psychopathology 2. To provide an overview of methods in psychopathology research 3. To be familiar with contributions from genetics to psychopathology 4. To be familiar with contributions from psychiatry to psychopathology 5. To be familiar with contributions from sociology to psychopathology 6. To be familiar with contributions from anthropology to psychopathology 7. To provide an overview of major syndromes in adult psychopathology 8. To describe the signs and symptoms of various mental illnesses 9. To describe the differential diagnosis of various mental illnesses 10. To describe the etiological factors involved in various mental illnesses
Topical Outline
1. Introduction 2. History, concepts of disease, and mental illness 3. Labeling theorists and their critics 4. Classification of psychopathology 5. Comorbidity in psychopathology 6. Dimensional vs. categorical approaches 7. Biological approaches 8. Vulnerability and resilience 9. Social approaches 10. Information processing approaches 11. Behavior genetic approaches 12. Anthropological and cross-cultural approaches 13. Unusual syndromes 14. Anxiety disorders 15. Mood disorders 16. Personality disorders 17. Eating disorders 18. Schizophrenia 19. Substance use disorders 20. Dissocative disorders 21. Somatoform disorder
Syllabus