In our conversation with Dr. Sarah Kate Bearman, the assistant professor and child clinical psychologist in the Department of Educational Psychology talks with Dr. Rui Zeng about child psychopathology and how study of this topic can be used to further people’s understanding of emotional and behavioral problems in children. Specifically, she discusses how she uses her course Emotional and Behavioral Disorders in Children and Adolescents to help people understand the typical development of children’s mental health problems and ways to protect children from developing such problems. Through student-led cases, first account interviews, pop-culture moments, and interactive games, etc. her students leave her course with not only better knowledge about these disorders but different approaches to treatment that beyond medication.

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