DESCRIPTION & OBJECTIVES:

The course offers students to understand the social-biological origins and dynamics of psychopathology in adults. This course is designed to provide students an introduction to the latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders to facilitate development of the basic mechanics of making psychological diagnoses as often required by employers and third-party payers. Main objectives of this course are to: provide students an overview of presumed etiology of various psychological disorders. This information is crucial to helping clinicians recognize and appreciate how psychopathology may develop, is maintained, and responds to treatment and recognizing variables associated with the onset and maintenance of psychological disorders may also help students differentiate amongst various psychological disorders.

Learnin Outcomes

By successful completion of this course, students will be able to

• Understand the basic concept of abnormality and psychopathology
• Understand relevant etiological factors for disorders as well as principles of diagnosis, treatment, and referral
• Develop a knowledge of the course, symptomatology, and epidemiology of psychological disorders including co-occurring substance use disorders on medical and psychological disorders

Contents

1. Introduction - Lifespan Issues in Psychopathology,
2.  Classification of Psychological Disorders
3. Assessment and Diagnosis of mental disorders
4. Schizophrenia spectrum and other Psychotic Disorder
5. Bipolar and Related Disorders
6. Depressive Disorders
7. Anxiety Disorders
8. Neurocognitive Disorders (Delirium, Dementia and other Cognitive Disorders)
9. Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorder
10. Trauma and Stressor Related Disorder
11. Dissociative Disorder
12. Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders
13. Feeding and Eating Disorders
14. Sleep-Wake Disorders
15. Personality disorder

Recommended Text

1. American Psychiatric Association (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, (Fifth Edition, DSM-5). Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Association.
2. Harrison, P., Cowen, P., Burns, T., & Fazel, M. (2018). Shorter Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry. London: Oxford university press.
3. Skodol, A. E. (2012). Personality disorders in DSM-5. Annual Review o f Clinical Psychology, 8, 317-344.

Suggested Readings

1. Krueger, R. F., & Eaton, N. R. (2010). Personality traits and the classification of mental disorders: Toward a more complete integration in DSM-5 and an empirical model of psychopathology. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 1, 97-118
2. Youngstrom, E. (2008). Evidence-based strategies for the assessment of developmental psychopathology: measuring prediction, prescription, and process. In E.W. Craighead, D.J. Miklowitz, & L.W. Craighead (Eds.), Psychopathology: History, diagnosis, and empirical foundations. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley
3. Achenbach, T.M. & Rescorla, L.A. (2006). Developmental issues in assessment, taxonomy, and diagnosis of psychopathology. In D. Chicchetti and D. Cohen (Eds.) Developmental Psychopathology, Volume 1: Theory and Method (2nd Edition), Hoboken, NJ, Wiley, 139 – 180.

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