Description
An introduction to the nature of psychopathology in adults and an in-depth study of the major diagnostic categories: issues in the definition of psychopathology in adults; approaches to clinical diagnosis of psychopathological syndromes; clinical syndromes: their major symptoms, courses, prognoses, with current understandings of each disorder’s etiology and phenomenology. The impact of multicultural factors upon diagnosis and the clinical presentation of the various syndromes is considered. Prerequisite: admission to MSCP program.