Outcomes:

After completing this class, students should be able to:

• Articulate the criteria and controversy regarding the definition of abnormal behavior.
• Describe current practices of diagnosis, assessment and research (including DSM) in classifying disorders and determining their need for treatment.
• Demonstrate knowledge of historical/contemporary views of abnormality.
• Describe the major techniques and theoretical approaches to understaning and treating abnormal behavior.
• Identify the major diagnostic categories and discriminate among symptoms, proposed causes, and preferred treatments of each of the following disorders:
• Anxxiety Disorders
• Dissociative Disorders
• Mood Disorders
• Personality Disorders
• Addictive Disorders
• Sexual Disorders
• Schizophrenia
• Organic Brain Disorders
• Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence
• Adjustment Disorders