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Ontario Tech University
   
    Dec 26, 2024  
2023-2024 Undergraduate Calendar 
    
2023-2024 Undergraduate Calendar [ARCHIVED CALENDAR]

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HLSC 4808U – Exploring Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities


This course integrates perspectives on the physiology, psychology, epidemiology and sociology of people with mental health issues and developmental disabilities (including dual diagnosis) and the implications for overall health and wellbeing. Key areas of both mental illness and developmental disabilities will be discussed; including schizophrenia, psychosis, depression, anxiety, violence and abuse, suicide, bullying, addiction, obsessive compulsive disorder, autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disabilities, Down syndrome, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, learning disabilities, how these conditions are related to each other and dual diagnoses.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): 84 credit hours



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