Developmental Psychopathology

In PSY 355 Students built recognition of mental health symptoms and empathic knowledge of mental health issues and diversity through community engaged learning with individuals at risk for mental health disorders. Students provided hands-on assistance at one of a variety of Dayton-area facilities that provide services for children in at-risk populations. Students reflected on how mental health issues can be demonstrated in children and practiced linking symptoms to mental health issues. Students reflected on their positionality respective to other members of our Dayton community through a reflection paper. 

Students will manifested scholarship through the advancement of learning more about mental health issues, and applying research findings to their observations. Students augmented their exposure to diversity and community by interacting with individuals in the Dayton community with life experiences typically very different from their own. They gained insight into the effect of societal choices on people who may be easily marginalized (critical evaluation of our times). Finally, students who take this course often intend to enter the field of mental health, and thus this experience may contribute to vocational development.