[an error occurred while processing this directive]
Home Monash Info News and Events Campuses and Faculties Monash University
Monash University Handbooks

MPM1003

Developmental psychiatry I

(MED)

Dr M Schwarz

6 points + Second year + First semester + Parkville (Same as MPM2002)

Synopsis: A developmental perspective on the evolution of human behaviour through the lifecycle. Developmental issues such as continuities and discontinuities between childhood and adulthood in health and psychopathology; the extent to which normality merges with pathology; facilitating and inhibiting factors influencing transitions between developmental phases; age-appropriate, accelerated and delayed development; the effect of individual differences on developmental processes; and the clinical applications of these principles to psychiatric conditions in childhood, adolescence and adulthood.

Assessment: Written examination (2 hours): 100%


Help | Contacts | Site Map | Staff Directory | Search