3 credit hours
Behavioral Medicine aims to explore the most common mental health disorders encountered across the lifespan. Students will learn to conduct a psychiatric interview and address the signs and symptoms, etiology, diagnosis, differential diagnosis, and treatment of behavioral disorders. This course includes the following topics as they pertain to human heavier; children and adolescent health, aging, chronic pain, death, dying and loss, domestic violence, eating disorders, human sexuality, stress and substance abuse (alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs). This course also explores provider burn-out and steps for prevention.