Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill/Developmental Psychopathology (PSYC 500) (Spring 2016)

This course is for advanced level undergraduate students, particularly those interested in attending graduate school in a psychology-related field.

The course provides an overview of several behavioral and emotional disorders of childhood and adolescence. Not all disorders of childhood and adolescence will be covered in the course. We concentrate on those disorders that are the most commonly diagnosed. (Some disorders not covered in this course are discussed in your course text if you are interested in reading about them, and some of these are available for topics for your paper and presentation.) The course focuses on the description, assessment, epidemiology, etiology and treatment of each disorder. We also spend a lot of time comparing and contrasting different ways of classifying what is happening with youths and families, and unpack some of the consequences of different models and their assumptions.