The aim of this course is to enable students to understand the basic assumptions and perspectives of the field of developmental psychopathology and to acquire basic knowledge to explain the developmental basis of different mental disorders and the etiology of different developmental disorders.

Developmental psychopathology approach, normative development and psychopathology relationship, diagnostic systems, infancy: mental disability, autism spectrum disorders, externalising disorders, oppositional defiant disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, emergence of learning disorders, anxiety disorders, depression and suicide, conduct disorder and development of antisocial behaviour