GCOUN 6102 Child and Adolescent Psychopathology

This course is designed to introduce students to developmental psychopathology and to the sociocultural context of children and adolescents. Psychodiagnosis of specific child and adolescent problems will be discussed from both a descriptive (DSM) point of view and an etiologic (historical) point of view. Treatment of child and adolescent disorders will be discussed as it relates to diagnosis.