Become a physician capable of addressing addictions in your patients from an innovative approach with this TECH postgraduate certificate. It’s the most complete on the market”

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODOC) in the 2016 World Drug Report states that 1 in 20 adults used at least one drug in 2014, or 250 million people aged 15-64, equivalent to the combined population of Germany, France, Italy and the United Kingdom. 
In the same report, it’s mentioned that more than 29 million people who consume drugs suffer from disorders related to them. It also states that 12 million of these are intravenous drug users, and 14% of these are living with HIV, generating a devastating impact on their health. However, only 1 in every 6 people receive treatment.

In recent decades, substance addictions have been joined by addictions where there is no substance that produces dependence, but rather a habit or behavior. This is the case of pathological gambling and addiction to new technologies, which are causing serious psychological and social health problems in both adults and young people. For these cases, medicine has also developed treatments that seek to reduce and eliminate the habits and behaviors that will be presented in this program.

The teaching team of this postgraduate certificate in Psychological Intervention in Drug Addiction with the Cognitive-Behavioral Model has made a careful selection of each of the topics of this program to offer the student a study opportunity as complete as possible and always related to current events. 

As it is an online postgraduate certificate, 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.

If you want to improve yourself, make a positive change at a professional level and interact with the best, this is the place for you”

The postgraduate certificate in Psychological Intervention in Drug Addiction with the Cognitive-Behavioral Model contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market. Its most notable features are:

• Clinical cases presented by experts in the different specialties
• 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
• New developments on psychological intervention in hard drugs with the cognitive-behavioral model
• An algorithm-based interactive learning system for decision-making in the clinical situations presented throughout the course
• With special emphasis on evidence-based medicine and 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

On a daily basis, 31% of the population consumes tobacco, 7% consumes hypnosedatives, 2% cannabis and 1% cocaine. Below 1% are amphetamines and synthetic drugs, and 0.1% use heroin sometime during the year"

It includes, in its teaching staff, health professionals belonging to the field of medicine, who bring to this refresher program their work experience, as well as renowned specialists belonging to scientific societies of reference. 

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

This program is designed around Problem-Based Learning, whereby the physician must try to solve the different professional practice situations that arise during the course. For this purpose, the student will be assisted by an innovative interactive video system created by renowned and experienced experts.

The postgraduate certificate in Psychological Intervention in Drug Addiction with the Cognitive-Behavioral Model contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market"

Don't miss the opportunity to update your knowledge in the cognitive-behavioral approach to addiction treatment. This will make you a much more reputable doctor"

With the aim of offering a complete training, which addresses each and every one of the areas where cognitive-behavioral therapy has a positive impact on patients with addictions, TECH has prepared this postgraduate certificate full of theoretical content with a practical approach, ideal when it comes to internalizing the knowledge. A unique opportunity in the hands of the physicians who wants to advance their knowledge with the ease offered by the online educational method.

We help you to update your knowledge and achieve your professional goals in a simple way and adapted to the needs of the 21st century student" 

General Objectives

• Discover the neurological bases of different addictions
• Define the basic concepts commonly used by the scientific community in the field of addictions and identify the different aspects for the physician to take into account in the assessment and intervention of these cases
• Provide a base of knowledge and procedures, which will give the student the necessary confidence and solvency to approach real cases
• Provide the student with the keys to the assessment framework in the case of addictions
• Show the criteria for the choice of therapeutic goals when facing an addiction intervention
• 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

• Make a classification of the most frequent psychostimulant substances
• Establish the most common forms of consumption of psychostimulant substances
• Establish the impact and effects of psychostimulant substances on health
• Define the neurobiology of addiction to psychostimulant substances
• Address different treatments to manage addiction to psychostimulant substances and perform proper relapse prevention and maintenance 
• Perform a classification of opiates and opioids
• Establish the most common forms of consumption of these substances 
• Develop the impact and effects of heroin and morphine on health
• Define the neurobiology of heroin and morphine addiction
• Address different treatments for the management of heroin and morphine addiction, with proper relapse prevention and maintenance

A unique, key and decisive training experience to boost your professional development"