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2023-2024 Springfield College Catalog 
    
2023-2024 Springfield College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

SWRK 603 - Human Behavior in the Social Environment 3


This advanced course continues the study of human behavior with emphasis on the behavioral and psychological difficulties people experience in interacting with their environments. The biological, sociological, and intrapsychic theories of mental illness and treatment based on these theories are reviewed in depth. The course includes an examination of the use of the DSM V, and the impact of diversity and oppression in the etiology, epidemiology, treatment, and prevention of mental illness.
Credits: 3