Course Title:
Aggression and Antisocial Behavior in Youth
Course Description:
Examines maladaptive aggression and antisocial behavior in children and adolescents. Explores the origins, development, outcomes, and treatment of what appears to be a growing epidemic among today’s youth. Topics include the types and prevalence of aggressive and antisocial behavior; the interplay among psychiatric, psychosocial, and psychobiologic processes in etiology; known risk and protective factors; gender variables; and why and how some children “grow out of” aggressive tendencies. Also addresses current approaches to clinical assessment and diagnosis as well as the evidence for widely used psychosocial and pharmacological interventions.
Fall Offering:
None
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Spring Offering:
None
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Summer Offering:
None
Lab/Coreq Remarks:
Summer 1 Offering:
None
Prerequisite 1:
PSY U101
Summer 2 Offering:
None
Prerequisite 2:
Cross-Listed Course 1:
Prerequisite 3:
Cross-Listed Course 2:
Prerequisite 4:
Cross-Listed Course 3:
Prerequisite 5:
Cross-Listed Course 4:
Prerequisite Remarks:
Cross-Listed Course 5:
Repeatable:
N
