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REQUIRED READINGS

Weekly reading assignments.

Week 1: The Transition to DSM 5: Mental Health & Mental Illness

WEEK 2: LABELING OR DIAGNOSIS

Week 3: The Brain and Behavior; The Dementias

Week 5 and 6: Mood Disorders

Week 8: Anxiety Disorders

  • Corcoran and Walsh, Chapter 8, "Anxiety Disorders, Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders, and Trauma and Stressor-Related Disorders," pp. 100-113.
  • Castillo, Chapter 10, "Anxiety Disorders," pp. 171-188.

DSM-5 Desk Reference: “Anxiety Disorders,” pp. 115-128; Obsessive Compulsive and Related

            Disorders,” pp. 129-140; “Trauma- and Stressor-related Disorders,” pp. 141-153

Trauma and stressor-related disorders:

http://dsm.psychiatryonline.org.libproxy.adelphi.edu:2048/content.aspx?bookid=556&sectionid=41101771 (AU login required)

 Anxiety disorders:

http://dsm.psychiatryonline.org.libproxy.adelphi.edu:2048/content.aspx?bookid=556&sectionid=41101761 (AU login required)

 Obsessive compulsive and related disorders:

http://dsm.psychiatryonline.org.libproxy.adelphi.edu:2048/content.aspx?bookid=556&sectionid=41101763 (AU login required)

Week 9: Substance-Related Disorders and Eating Disorders

Week 10: Introduction to Childhood Disorders and Review: The DSM 5 in Advanced Direct Practice with Diverse Populations in Changing Contexts

DSM-5 Desk Reference, “Neurodevelopmental Disorders,” pp. 17-44, especially “Autism Spectrum Disorder, pp. 27-31, Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, pp. 31-35, “Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorders,” pp. 219-226, especially Oppositional Defiant Disorder, pp. 219-220, and Conduct Disorder,pp. 221-224

Autism Spectrum Disorder:

http://dsm.psychiatryonline.org.libproxy.adelphi.edu:2048/content.aspx?bookid=556&sectionid=41101757 (AU login required)

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder:

http://dsm.psychiatryonline.org.libproxy.adelphi.edu:2048/content.aspx?bookid=556&sectionid=41101757#103436640 (AU login required)

Separation Anxiety Disorder:
http://dsm.psychiatryonline.org.libproxy.adelphi.edu:2048/content.aspx?bookid=556&sectionid=41101761#103437662 (AU login required)

Disruptive, Impulse-Control and Conduct Disorders:

http://dsm.psychiatryonline.org.libproxy.adelphi.edu:2048/content.aspx?bookid=556&sectionid=41101781 (AU login required)

Corcoran and Walsh, Chapter 3, “Autism spectrum disorder,” pp. 23-38, Chapter 4, “Neurodevelopmental disorders: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder,” pp. 39-51 Adolescence,” pp. 57-98, Chapter 10, “Oppositional defiant disorder,” pp. 130-141.