Understanding of assessment includes consideration of health as well as unhealthy responses and a strengths-based perspective is encouraged. Students are expected to address ethical issues in working with families and children. This course presents emotional dysfunction within the context of the life cycle and includes developmental crises and mental disorders. Biological, psychogenic, and psychophysiologic bases of emotional disorders are explored, as well as other issues that may impact mental health. Students are prepared to understand, recognize, and diagnose using the current DSM in psychosocial assessments with a critical awareness of issues of possible cultural bias.
Emphasis is given to focusing on client empowerment and strengths rather than pathologies.
This course provides an overview of research design including sampling and variable measurement. The major emphasis is on basic statistical methods. Descriptive methods, probability distributions, and inferential statistics including hypothesis testing are covered. Students learn statistical techniques associated with group comparisons using nominal, ordinal, and interval data. Undergraduate Research and Statistics.