The aim of this course is to introduce students to developmental psychopathology which is an interdisciplinary approach focusing on the both normal and abnormal development of children and adults.  After covering the main issues of the developmental psychopathology perspective, students will be exposed to the main disorders of childhood from this perspective. 

Students will learn

            the clinical definition and the diagnostic features of the childhood disorders

            developmental pathways (risk factors, resilience, comorbidity, nature of progression)

            whether the disorder is a developmental delay or a deviance

            whether there is a continuity or discontinuity of the disorder

            theoretical explanations of the disorder

            contribution of studying pathologies to the normal developmental theory