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2023-2024 Graduate Catalog 
    
2023-2024 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

SWK 660 - Psychopathology


Credits: 3

This course will provide students with an intensive focus on the types of mental disorders that are prevalent in inpatient and outpatient settings and the likely etiology of these disorders. This course will also include consideration of culture/worldviews in diagnosis and conceptualization, as well as anticipating ethical issues related to diagnosis and treatment. Finally, students will be exposed to various treatments, particularly Empirically Supported Treatments, which will lead to symptom decrease and/or remission of various disorders.