Behavior Dysfunction and assessment

Paper Code: 
PSY 225B
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Outcomes (COs):

 

Course Outcomes

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

  
 

On completion of this course, the students will be able to:

CO71: Have working knowledge and understanding of the major psychological problems  and critically review their signs and symptoms.

CO72: Develop understanding of issues and assessment of the various abnormal behavior.

CO73: Start conversations around mental health and creating mental health awareness amongst non-Psychology students.

CO74: Identify people suffering from common mental health problems like anxiety and depression.

CO75: identifying the etiology of eating and sleep related disorders

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Demonstration, Team teaching

Learning activities for the students:

Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, Simulation, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks, Field practical

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects

  

 

12.00
Unit I: 
Introduction

Concepts of mental health and illness.  Meaning and definition of normality and abnormality.  Models for understanding dysfunctions: (Psychoanalytical, behavioral, interpersonal and humanistic). Need for and types of classification of mental disorders (DSM and ICD systems of classification).

12.00
Unit II: 
Unit ii

Symptoms and Screening of Anxiety issues, Problems of Bodily Preoccupation; Mood Dysfunctions; Schizophrenia and other Psychotic 

12.00
Unit III: 
Understanding and screening developmental, behavioral and emotional issues

Intellectual Disability and its assessment. Understanding and screening of Pervasive Developmental Disorder: Autism, ADHD, ASPD, Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)Conduct Disorders. Enuresis and Encopresis.

12.00
Unit IV: 
Cognitive Impairment Disorders, Personality Dysfunctions and assessment

Delirium; Dementia; Amnestic Disorders. Personality Dysfunctions: Types, characteristics and assessment. 

12.00
Unit V: 
Other Disorders

Eating; Learning Disability; Sleeping Disorders; Substance Abuse Disorders; Sexual Disorders: Paraphilias & Gender Identity

Essential Readings: 

·       Kaplan, H.J. and Sadock, B.J. Ninth Edition (2004) Synopsis of Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins.

·       Kendall and Norton-ford: Modern Clinical Psychology, New York, Wiley, 1980.  

·       Korchin, S.J.: Modern Clinical Psychology, Tokyo, Harper International Edition, 1976.

·       Wolman: Handbook of Clinical Psychology, New York, McGraw Hill, 1965.

References: 

·       Batchelor I.R.C. 10th Ed. (1968). Henderson Gillepie’s Textbook of Psychiatry.  London, Oxford University Press.

·       Cameron N. & Margaret (1951). Behaviour Pathology. Houghton Mifflin Company, Bostan.

·       Ludwig A. (1986). Principles of Clinical Psychiatry. The Free Press, New York.

·       Mayer, R.G. and Deutsch, S.E. (1996). The Child Clinician’s Handbook. Mass: Allyn and Bacon.

·       Nicoli A.M. Ed. (1978). The Harvard Guide to Modern Psychiatry. Harvard University Press, Cambridge.

·       Pinel, P.J. (1997) Biopsychology, Mass: Allyn and Bacon.

·       Purves, D. et al (Ed) Neuroscience. Mass: Allyn and Bacon.

·       Walker, C.E. and Roberts M.C. (2001) Handbook of Clinical Child Psychology 3rd edition New York: J. Wiley & Sons.

·       Zillmer, E.A. and Spears, M.V. (2001) Principles of Neuropsychology. Canada: Wadsworth Publishers.

Academic Year: 
2023-2024
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