PSY20210: Psychopathology and Diagnosis

Credits 3
This course offers an overview of psychological disorders using the DSM and incorporating perspectives relevant to spiritually oriented clinical psychology. The student will study clinical assessment, written clinical evaluation, use of differential psycho-diagnostics, differential diagnostic skills, development of treatment objectives and goals, and clinical analysis of outcome data. The course also examines the use of current clinical paradigms in an understanding and classification of psychopathology from a cross-cultural perspective.