Developmental-Behavioral and Mental Health in Pediatrics

3 credits

This course emphasizes early problem identification, advanced evaluation, intervention, and collaborative care for pediatric populations with developmental-behavioral or mental health concerns. A relational, biopsychosocial, trauma-informed, developmental, interdisciplinary approach is used as the foundation for explicating family-based psychotherapeutic interventions as well as indications for referral of patients with complex behavioral concerns. Students will build skills to identify and evaluate multidisciplinary resources to enhance quality behavioral services and promote optimal socioemotional development. Social determinants of health, inequities, bias, gender, ablism and structural racism are critically analyzed as a basis for advocacy and policy development.