Developmental Psychopathology, Conflict, Kids and Culture.

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

The goal of this course is to articulate key principles, assumptions, concepts and methods that underlie the developmental psychopathology framework, and to use them to provide a foundation for understanding the processes underlying development, with a special emphasis on relations between conflict, violence and youth adjustment domestically (i.e., family and marital conflict) and in international contexts (i.e., political violence and armed conflict). Following an introduction to the developmental psychopathology framework, the course will include a focus on special issues in developmental psychopathology, as well as on understanding development from a developmental psychopathology perspective in the context of conflict at proximal and distal levels of the social ecology, including family and marital conflict and international contexts of political violence, armed conflict and youth adjustment.