This course will provide students with an introduction to underlying depressive disorders, bipolar and related disorders, and schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders. Other topics covered include suicide, neurocognitive disorders, feeding and eating disorders, sexual dysfunctions, gender dysphoria, and paraphilic disorders. Clinical presentations, diagnostic differentiation, biopsychosocial understanding, and empirically supported assessment and therapy are presented and discussed. Case studies are used to present variations in symptom presentation. The roles of culture, gender, ethnic, age, and disability factors are also discussed as are interdisciplinary aspects of care related to diagnostics.
Prerequisites
PSYCD 1669 Psychopathology I: Anxiety and Personality Disorders