338 Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy

Prerequisites: 472, 623, 520 (MA students only). The purpose of this course is to provide a conceptual framework for interventions with adolescents and children. The course will focus on interventions and research targeting the major psychological disorders of childhood and adolescence, including ADHD, conduct disorders, anxiety disorders, depression, trauma based disorders, adjustment disorders, eating disorders, and developmental disorders. Interventions which impact the biological, familial, environmental, and socio-cultural factors which maintain the child' problematic functioning will be emphasized. The importance of addressing individual differences and diversity in treatment, intervention and prevention efforts as well as the increased responsibility of clinicians working with children and adolescents is stressed. (3 credits)