PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENT, & AGING

Credit Hours: 3 · Graduate

This course will take a developmental approach to understand psychopathology and aging. We will seek to evaluate the the factors contributing to psychopathology that emerge across the lifespan. We will adopt a biopsychosocial model to address the roots of normal and abnormal adult development, & aging. This course will begin with an overview of the field; we will then work toward a sophisticated understanding anxiety disorders, aging & cognitive disorders, mood disorders, factitious and dissociative disorders, and personality disorders. Although we will cover nosological models of psychopathology, we will primarily focus on etiology.