Thanks to this postgraduate diploma you will obtain an advanced and up-to-date knowledge in the evaluation and diagnosis of young people”

Depression, stress, anxiety or sleep disorders have increased in the child and adolescent population in recent years. A problem, to which special importance is given in the area of psychology, which increasingly requires professionals with a more comprehensive and in-depth knowledge in the correct evaluation and diagnosis of children.

This postgraduate diploma responds to this demand caused by the special interest of professionals in deepening their knowledge in the most used instruments and techniques, as well as the new lines of research on minors. Also, students who take this degree will obtain a renewed knowledge about neurodevelopmental disorders and the influence of the socioeconomic position of the family, culture and media in children.

A program taught online, which gives the psychology professional the opportunity to keep current with the advances made in this field with multimedia content consisting of video summaries, specialized readings and simulations of real cases. All this will allow students to deepen in the area of diagnostic criteria of pathological environments, in the most successful therapy communication in the child and adolescent stages or in the evolution of child and adolescent psychopathologies.

A postgraduate diploma that provides the psychology professional with the ease of studying this program comfortably from a device (mobile, tablet, computer) with internet connection and with access to the syllabus 24 hours a day. This way, students are able to acquire a quality education at the same time that they can combine their work and/or personal responsibilities.

A 100% online program that will allow you to combine your professional responsibilities with a quality university degree"

This postgraduate diploma in Evaluation and Diagnosis of Children and Adolescents contains the most complete and up-to-date program on the market. The most important features include:

• Practical cases presented by experts in Psycho-Oncology 
• 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.
• Practical exercises where self-assessment can be used to improve learning.
• Its special emphasis on innovative methodologies 
• 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

Enroll in a degree that will allow you to stay on top of recent techniques used in the diagnosis of obsessive compulsive disorder in young people”

The program’s teaching staff includes professionals from the sector who contribute their work experience to this program, as well as renowned specialists from leading societies and prestigious universities.

Its multimedia content, developed with the latest educational technology, will provide the professional with situated and contextual learning, i.e., a simulated environment that will provide an immersion education programmed to learn in real situations.

The design of this program focuses on Problem-Based Learning, by means of which the professional must try to solve the different professional practice situations that are presented throughout the academic course. For this purpose, the student will be assisted by an innovative interactive video system created by renowned experts.

Delve into the most current evaluation instruments used in the adolescent population"

Deepen in the main etiologies of psychopathological disorders in childhood with an expert teaching team"

Upon completing this program, the psychology professionals will have achieved the renewal of their knowledge in the main techniques and tools currently used in the Evaluation and Diagnosis of Children and Adolescents. An educational program that will allow them to have a broad knowledge of the main pathological environments of childhood and adolescence.  A learning that they will be able to acquire and keep up to date thanks to the didactic material provided by the teaching team that integrates this degree and to which they will be able to have access whenever and wherever they wish.

The Relearning system will facilitate the renewal of knowledge, reducing, in turn, the long hours of study”

General Objectives

• Describe the therapeutic bond between the psychotherapist and the child
• Analyze the changes in behavior during the life cycle
• Differentiate between the evolutionary adaptation and adaptability of human beings
• Explain the framing of the family system in a single-therapist, single-patient psychotherapy
• Master psychodiagnosis and evaluation in the child and adolescent framework
• Control personality assessment at these ages
• Identify the role of the family in child and adolescent diagnosis
• Specify the intervention in clinical psychology at these age groups
• Develop sufficient skills to manage a child and adolescent clinic

Specific Objectives

Module 1. History of Psychology: Child and Adolescent Psychopathology

• Get to know the most influential currents of psychology in the history of the discipline of clinical psychology
• Study the origins of clinical child and adolescent psychology and the importance of the study of children and adolescents in the field of psychology
• Gain knowledge about the development and the differences between what is considered normal and what is considered pathological in the child and adolescent stage
• Deepen the theories of child development in relation to their influence on the psychopathology of childhood and adolescence

Module 2. Therapeutic Relationship with the Infant, Assessment and Diagnostic Process in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology

• Know the process of the therapeutic relationship with the child and adolescent in clinical child and adolescent psychology, and also to know the most appropriate forms of communication for successful therapy in the early stages
• Identify the clinical evaluation and diagnosis process used with patients in the infantilejuvenile stage
• Study the evaluation instruments and the areas of importance that should be evaluated in the infantilejuvenile stage
• Study how the family is involved in therapy with minors

Module 3. Developmental Contexts and Psychopathologies in Childhood and Adolescence, the Role of the Family

• Get to know the influence of developmental contexts on childhood and adolescent psychopathologies
• Study the existing differences between the autonomous self, the social self and the family self
• Identify the characteristics that make a family pathological, the existing conflictive links and the influence of the family environment in the development of psychopathologies in the child
• Study the modulating risk and protective factors for child and adolescent mental health

Module 4. Pathological Universes in Clinical Psychological Therapy of Childhood and Adolescence

• Gain knowledge of the main pathological universes of childhood and adolescence
• Learn to recognize and distinguish the different pathological environments related to the infantile and juvenile stage
• Know the diagnostic criteria of the pathological universes according to the DSM-V
• Learn the characteristics of the infantojuvenile stage in each pathological universe
• Analyze the differential characteristics of each pathologic universe according to the DSM-V information
• Study the existing comorbidities in each pathological universe mentioned

Every patient has the right to be treated with dignity during their illness. Help them at all times”