Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention in Cannabis Addiction

This postgraduate diploma is unique in that it offers physicians a multitude of techniques and tools so that they can approach cannabis addiction from a new perspective and treat it from a cognitive-behavioral psychology approach"

This postgraduate diploma offers physicians a series of techniques and tools that will allow them to approach cannabis addiction from a new perspective. Aimed at professionals who wish to specialize in the field of cannabis addiction, or who want to update their knowledge in this regard, it offers the latest advances in the field of medical treatment in this area, so that they can intervene competently in this type of problem.

To this end, the teaching team of this program has made a careful selection of each of the topics of this program in order to offer the student the most complete study opportunity possible and always related to current events. 

As it is an online program, the student is not constrained by fixed schedules or the need to move to another physical location, but rather, they can access the contents at any time of the day, allowing them to balance their professional or personal life with their academic life as they please.

Expand your knowledge through the postgraduate diploma in Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention in Cannabis Addiction, in a practical way and adapted to your needs” 

This postgraduate diploma in Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention in Cannabis Addiction contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market. The most important features include:

• Development of clinical cases presented by medical experts
• The graphic, schematic, and practical contents with which they are created, provide scientific and practical information on the disciplines that are essential for professional practice
• Diagnostic and therapeutic developments in the intervention of cannabis addiction
• An algorithm-based interactive learning system for decision-making in the clinical situations presented throughout the course
• With a special emphasis on evidence-based medicine and addiction research methodologies
• All of this will be complemented by theoretical lessons, questions to the expert, debate forums on controversial topics, and individual reflection assignments
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection

Cannabis has become a commonly used substance by young people and people of all ages. That is why healthcare facilities increasingly require more and more physicians capable of treating these addictions" 

The teaching staff includes healthcare professionals, who bring their work experience to this program, as well as renowned specialists from leading scientific societies.

Thanks to its multimedia content elaborated with the latest educational technology, this postgraduate diploma will allow the professional a situated and contextual learning, that is, a simulated environment that will provide an immersive learning programmed to train in real situations.

The design of this program is based on Problem-Based Learning, by means of which the physician will have to try to solve the different professional practice situations that will arise throughout the postgraduate diploma. To do so, it will have the help of an innovative interactive video system developed by recognized experts in the field of Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention in Cannabis Addiction and with extensive teaching experience.

The postgraduate diploma includes real clinical cases and exercises to bring the development of the program closer to the physician’s clinical practice"

Don't miss this great opportunity to become a more competent physician and achieve job and salary improvements"

Being fully aware of the social problems posed by cannabis addiction, professionals from multidisciplinary fields such as science and psychology have designed this postgraduate diploma with the aim of helping physicians to update their knowledge in this exciting and complex field.

Achieve your professional and personal goals by studying at the world's largest online university"

General Objectives

• Offer a base of knowledge and procedures which provides the student with the necessary confidence and solid foundations to address real cases
• Reflect and practice different situations of intervention in cases of addictions
• Describe in detail the basic protocol followed by the cognitive-behavioral approach in the treatment of addictions, its techniques, as well as therapeutic procedures from other approaches that may be complementary to the above approach
• Transmit the importance of multidisciplinary intervention as the key to the effectiveness of treatment in the case of addictions

Specific Objectives 

Module 1. Assessment, Prevention and Psychological Treatment in Addictions  

• Understand the effects of substances on the brain and the interrelation of the main neurological centers involved in addictions
• Highlight the techniques and tools of psychological assessment that the student will use in their daily practice, as well as the areas of assessment, in order to carry out a correct differential diagnosis as well as the detection of dual pathology
• Define the role of the psychologist in the assessment and intervention of addictions
• Identify the necessary criteria to carry out a preventative intervention as well as the most appropriate type of intervention in each case

Module 2. Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Cannabis Addiction 

• Define and classify the types of drugs that lead to cannabis addiction 
• Classify cannabis-related problems, their impact and the health effects of cannabis addiction
• Understand the disorders related to cannabis addiction
• Assess and treat the person suffering from cannabis addiction through different treatments such as pharmacological or psychological treatment
• Define other interventions and types of intervention programs
• Address other pathologies present in cannabis addiction

Make the most of this opportunity and take the step to get up to date on the latest developments in this field. Only then will you become a more capable physician"