PSYC 4243 - Adolescent Psychology

Credit Hours: 3
Contact Hours: 3 Lecture
Offered: Irregular

Theories of psychological development, pathology, and the normal and abnormal views of the adolescence stage are studied. Includes the most researched stages of adolescent behavior and personality, issues of adolescent brain development and criteria for the diagnosis of maladjustment and mental disorders.

Prerequisites: PSYC 2963 - Developmental Psychology: A Life Span, PSYC 2613 - Research Methods In Psychology and three hours upper-level psychology courses, or consent of department head