This course examines psychological normality and abnormality. Students will learn assessments, causes, diagnosis, and treatment of abnormal behavior. Students will explore classification of mental illness as well as explore social and multicultural issues relating to diagnosis. Students will examine abnormal behaviors and interventions that law enforcement professionals are likely to encounter in the field as examples of how abnormal psychology is applied.
This course will relate to students who want to identify and apply abnormal behavior to law enforcement professions as a means to assess, diagnosis, and treatment individuals with abnormalities.
In today's world, we are surrounded by life stressors that can increase a person's anxiety and depression. In some cases, we see severe mental illnesses that include hallucinations and delusions. Abnormal Psychology is important to the University and students to learn not only how to identify mental illness, but also how to diagnosis and treat mental illness through God's word.
In Exodus 15:26, it is written that God is our ultimate healer. In abnormal psychology, students will learn that through God, mental illness can be treated
In abnormal psychology, students will learn the importance to spread witness to people with mental illness and make them aware of the importance of expressing their emotions and bringing them to God. Ultimately, abnormal psychology may help open the door to an understanding of our deepest needs.
Throughout the Bible we are told to spread the word of Jesus as well as love our neighbors. Within our own communities, people are suffering with mental illness. Through this course, future counselors will learn to communicate and relate to people with mental illness.
In this course, students will learn how mental illness influences those from diverse populations as well as how to treat them including their cultural beliefs.
This course will emphasis the importance of ministry to those who suffer from mental illness by using knowledge gained from the course to diagnosis and treat and the Bible for knowledge in ministry.
This course will include field case studies for students to analyze, diagnosis, and treat. Through the use of case studies, students will become prepared to practice within the scope of their field.
