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PSY3082 Child Psychology III
This course researches behaviors of syndromes in children, with concentration to symptoms or behavioral examples. It involves students in a diagnostic appraisal of familiar child and adolescent psychopathology and confronts social and cultural notions of what comprises “normal” versus “pathological” conduct, cognizance and sentiment.
You will extend your expansive knowledge of how children are evaluated, diagnosed and treated, when they have mental conditions. You will study childhood psychopathology and comprehend how developmental theory can shape our perception of the demonstration of psychopathology at various stages of development.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
This course will bestow explicit knowledge of theories, disputes and questions in child psychopathology. Advancing analytical thinking skills in order to assess real-life cases and cogitate all significant evidence in order to make suitable diagnostic findings. By the end of this course, all students should:
- Comprehend the theories of psychiatric diagnosis
- Communicate the general progression of clinical assessment of mental ailments in children and adolescents
- Review the conventional disorders affecting children and adolescents
- Bestow empirically proven remedies for childhood mental health disorders
- Confer contemporary focuses in child psychopathology
- Appraise key examination discoveries in the field of childhood psychopathology
- Amplify superior compassion for children living with a mental affliction
REFERENCE MATERIALS
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Full-CLC Students
“A CLC award signifies that the student has attained the knowledge, (through either prior education or experience), equal to or greater than the student would have learned in a traditional college course.”
“Based upon your CLC award, physical classroom attendance is not required; however, you will be required to successfully pass a final exam for each course.”
Based upon your HESEAP Application, you have received full-CLC for this course; therefore, this is a test-out course which does not include traditional education on the subject.
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Search Topics: Publications/Videos/Papers
(The majority of the exam questions for this course are based upon information contained in the below search topics)
- (2015) Understanding Anxiety and Anxiety Disorders Introduction.https://newsinhealth.nih.gov/2016/03/understanding-anxiety-disorders#:~:text=People%20with%20these%20disorders%20have,%2C%20substance%20abuse%2C%20and%20depression.
- (2014) Disorders in Childhood. https://cnx.org/contents/uASZ6djG@5/Disorders-in-Childhood
- (2014) What is Lifespan Development? http://cnx.org/contents/fb83c68a-2bc6-4a0a-ba0f-b79ceb75594b@5
- (2013) Month-by-Month Guide to Baby's Milestones. William Sears, M.d. http://www.parenting.com/article/month-by-month-guide-to-babys-milestones
- (2012) Introduction to Psychology. John Gabrieli, (Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBYebcVw8Zk&list=PL44ABC9278E2EE706&index=17
- (2008) Forms and Causes of Childhood Disorders. Andrea Barkoukis, M.A., Natalie Staats Reiss, Ph.D., and Mark Dombeck, Ph.D. https://www.mentalhelp.net/articles/forms-and-causes-of-childhood-disorders/
- (2008) Treatment of Oppositional Defiant Disorder. Andrea Barkoukis, M.A., Natalie Staats Reiss, Ph.D., and Mark Dombeck, Ph.D. https://www.mentalhelp.net/articles/treatment-of-oppositional-defiant-disorder/
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