A comprehensive and 100% online program, exclusive to TECH, with an international perspective supported by our affiliation with the European Association of Applied Psychology”

The therapeutic approach to family relationships and stress requires a specialized perspective that considers both scientific advancements and the emotional complexity of human bonds. Currently, the impact of chronic stress on mental and physical health has reached alarming levels, directly interfering with the quality of life for millions of people and disrupting family dynamics.

In this context, TECH has designed this comprehensive program to meet the sector's demands. Through an integrated and specialized syllabus, contemporary therapeutic models, emotional diagnostic tools, relational dynamics, and evidence-based clinical resources will be explored, with a focus on interdisciplinary work. Additionally, emerging topics such as relational trauma, post-pandemic stress, parenting in high-demand contexts, and the use of new technologies in therapeutic processes will be addressed.

Furthermore, the completely online methodology will foster flexible immersion, tailored to current needs. From anywhere and with only a device with internet access, graduates will be able to access TECH's Virtual Campus, where they will find a variety of materials such as specialized readings, videos, and interactive summaries. On the other hand, thanks to the exclusive Relearning method, key content will be presented in a repetitive and intelligent way, ensuring natural and lasting assimilation. As an added benefit, this university experience includes 10 unmatched Masterclasses, which will be delivered by a renowned international Guest Director.

Therefore, thanks to membership in the European Association of Applied Psychology (EAAP), the student will have access to specialized resources, continuing education, and an annual seminar at no additional cost. Moreover, the student will have the opportunity to collaborate with professionals and like-minded organizations, integrate into an international network, and benefit from various membership levels that recognize both professional commitment and outstanding contributions to applied psychology.

A prestigious International Guest Director will deliver 10 rigorous Masterclasses to analyze the latest trends in Family Therapy and Stress management”

This Master's Degree in Family Therapy and Stress contains the most complete and up-to-date program on the market. The most important features include:

• Development of practical cases presented by experts in Family and Stress Therapy
• 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
• Special emphasis on innovative methodologies in Family Therapy and Stress
• 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

You will master the most modern techniques for assessing stress factors in family contexts, identifying dysfunctional dynamics and stress-inducing factors”

The teaching staff includes professionals from the field of Family Therapy and Stress, who contribute their work experience to this program, alongside recognized specialists from leading societies and prestigious universities.

The 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 immersive learning experience designed to prepare for real-life situations.

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

With TECH's revolutionary Relearning methodology, you will integrate all concepts in a natural and progressive manner. Forget about memorizing!”

You will gain a deep understanding of the approaches to Family Therapy and their application in the treatment of Stress”

This university program will provide psychologists with the most advanced tools to intervene in complex family environments, developing skills in the therapeutic approach to Stress. Throughout the syllabus, they will explore fundamental aspects such as family bonds, parental roles, the most effective intervention models, and conflicts that require specialized attention. Moreover, they will delve into Family interview techniques, systemic organization, and psychological expertise. In this way, graduates will understand emotional dynamics from an integral perspective, being able to design therapeutic strategies tailored to the contemporary challenges of Family mental health.

By training with this comprehensive syllabus, you will address the emotional challenges of the family environment with precise clinical tools and an integrative vision”

Module 1. Psychodiagnosis and Assessment of the Family System

1.1. Anthropological, Historical, Sociological and Psychological Perspective of the Family
1.2. Diagnosis as a Catalyst for the Therapeutic Bond
1.3. Evaluator Skills

1.3.1. Being Helpful in the Process
1.3.2. Understanding What Is Happening
1.3.3. Being Open and Understanding
1.3.4. Becoming an Authority

1.4. Psychodiagnosis and Assessment of the Family System

1.4.1. Language
1.4.2. Pathological and Healthy Bonds
1.4.3. Utilizing Others
1.4.4. Rejection and Abandonment
1.4.5. Stress, Distress and Eustress
1.4.6. Conflicts and Tensions
1.4.7. Family Psychopathology

1.5. Place in the Sibling Group and Social Desirability

1.5.1. Family Composition
1.5.2. The Right to Have Siblings
1.5.3. Twins
1.5.4. The Sick Sibling
1.5.5. Grandparents and Uncles
1.5.6. Other Components

1.6. Objectives of Psychodiagnosis

1.6.1. Evaluator and Evaluated Bond
1.6.2. Discovering What Exists
1.6.3. Clarifying the Facts
1.6.4. Explaining the State of the Subject with Scientific Facts
1.6.5. Understanding the Relationship Between the Study Participants and the Situation They Have Experienced

1.7. Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI-III)

1.7.1. Modifier Scales: Desirability and Alteration Index
1.7.2. Basic Personality Scales: Schizoid, Avoidant, Depressive, Dependent, Histrionic, Narcissistic, Antisocial, Aggressive-Sadistic, Compulsive, Passive-Aggressive, Self-Destructive
1.7.3. Severe Personality Scales: Schizotypal, Borderline, and Paranoid
1.7.4. Moderate Clinical Syndromes: Anxiety, Hysteriform, Hypomania, Depressive Neurosis, Alcohol Abuse, Drug Abuse, PTSD
1.7.5. Severe Clinical Syndromes: Psychotic Thinking, Major Depression, and Psychotic Delirium

1.8. Cattell's 16 PF-5

1.8.1. Affability, Reasoning, Stability, Dominance, Animation, Attention to Norms, Boldness, Sensitivity, Vigilance, Abstraction, Privacy, Apprehension, Openness to Change, Self-Sufficiency, Perfectionism, and Tension. Includes Scales for "Social Desirability" (MI), "Infrequency" (IN), and "Acquiescence" (AQ) to Control Response Biases

1.9. Behavior Assessment System for Children BASC

1.9.1. Internalizing Problems: Depression, Anxiety, Social Anxiety, Somatic Complaints, Obsession-Compulsion, and Post-Traumatic Symptomatology
1.9.2. Externalizing Problems: Hyperactivity and Impulsivity, Attention Problems, Aggression, Defiant Behavior, Anger Control Issues, Antisocial Behavior
1.9.3. Specific Problems: Antisocial Behavior, Eating Disorders, Schizotypy, Substance Abuse

1.10. Questionnaire for Evaluating Adopters, Caregivers, Tutors, and Mediators (CUIDA)
1.11. Personality Assessment Inventory PAI

1.11.1. Validity Scales: Consistency, Infrequency, Negative Impression, Positive Impression
1.11.2. Clinical Scales (Somatic Complaints, Anxiety, Anxiety-Related Disorders, Depression, Mania, Paranoia, Schizophrenia, Borderline Traits, Antisocial Traits, Alcohol Problems, Drug Problems)
1.11.3. Considerations for Treatment Scales (Aggression, Suicidal Ideations, Stress, Lack of Social Support, Treatment Rejection)
1.11.4. Two Interpersonal Relationship Scales (Dominance and Affability)
1.11.5. 30 Subscales Providing More Detailed Information

1.12. Study of the Credibility of the Narrative

1.12.1. CBCA System (Criteria-Based Content Analysis)
1.12.2. Statement Validity Assessment (SVA) Udo Undeutsch
1.12.3. SVA = Interview + CBCA + Validity Checklist

Module 2. The Family Interview

2.1. Active Interview

2.1.1. Information Theory
2.1.2. Communication Channels
2.1.3. Communication System

2.2. Axioms of the Interview

2.2.1. It Is Impossible Not To Communicate
2.2.2. Content and Relationship
2.2.3. Affective Value
2.2.4. Digital and Analog Communication
2.2.5. Symmetry & Asymmetry

2.3. Exploration of Communication

2.3.1. Verbal Communication
2.3.2. Non-Verbal Communication
2.3.3. Double Bind
2.3.4. Psychopathology of Communication
2.3.5. A Gesture is Worth a Thousand Words

2.4. Clinical History

2.4.1. Personal
2.4.2. Family
2.4.3. Generational

2.5. Anamnesis

2.5.1. Psychopathological Biography
2.5.2. Medical History
2.5.3. Social Problems Biography

2.6. General Structure of the Mental Examination

2.6.1. Non-Verbal Communication and Emotions
2.6.2. Communication Around the Table

2.7. Semiology, Signs and Symptoms

2.7.1. Signs
2.7.2. Symptoms

2.8. Epistemology of Diagnosis

2.8.1. Syndromic Descriptive Diagnosis vs. Disease
2.8.2. Nosology. Categorical Diagnosis vs. Dimensional Diagnosis

2.9. Multiple Diagnoses and Comorbidity
2.10. Clinical vs. Research Criteria
2.11. Expert Interview

Module 3. Family Stress

3.1. New Ways to Define Stress
3.2. Common Stressors in the Family

3.2.1. Relational
3.2.2. Environmental
3.2.3. Economic
3.2.4. Affective
3.2.5. Pathologies of Family Members
3.2.6. Abuse and Violence
3.2.7. Separation and/or Abandonment

3.3. Interpersonal Stress
3.4. Toxic Substances and the Family

3.4.1. With Substances
3.4.2. Without Substances
3.4.3. Dependencies

3.5. The Information Recovery Process: The Transfer of Learning
3.6. Occupational Stress
3.7. Learning and Family Events
3.8. Family Crises

Module 4. Family Bonds and Systemic Organization

4.1. Functions of the Family
4.2. The Family Institution

4.2.1. Family Life Cycle
4.2.2. Family Law
4.2.3. Legal Nature
4.2.4. Characteristics of the Family

4.3. Types of Families

4.3.1. Marital Family
4.3.2. Matriarchal Family
4.3.3. Patriarchal Family
4.3.4. Gang Family
4.3.5. Inverted Family
4.3.6. Extended Family

4.4. Family Characteristics That Promote or Hinder Learning
4.5. Structural Variables of the Family
4.6. The Dysfunctional Family
4.7. Family Reactions to Illness
4.8. Pathological Management of Children by the Family
4.9. Impact of Family Composition
4.10. Family Morphology and Its Implication in Psychopathology
4.11. Family and the Socialization Process
4.12. Psychotherapeutic Intervention in the Dysfunctional Family
4.13. The Inheritance of Conflict
4.14. Concept of Accompaniment, Containment and Escort

Module 5. Family Models and Parental Roles

5.1. Separation, Divorce, and Annulment
5.2. Work Incapacity from Expert Testimony

5.2.1. Deficiency, Disability, and Impairment
5.2.2. Civil Incapacity and Work Incapacity
5.2.3. Degrees of Permanent Incapacity
5.2.4. Severe Disability

5.3. Gender-Based Violence

5.3.1. Psychological Violence
5.3.2. Psychological Consequences of Violence

5.4. Mistreatment

5.4.1. Establishing the Facts
5.4.2. Psychological Consequences
5.4.3. The Causal Link

5.5. Secondary Victimization

5.5.1. Credibility of the Testimony
5.5.2. Difficulty of the Psychological Report

5.6. Psychopedagogical Expert Evaluation of Substance Abuse
5.7. Expert Evaluation in the Elderly
5.8. Profile of the Basic Emotion "Guilt" in Current Research

Module 6. Modes of Intervention in Family Therapy

6.1. Concept of Conflict

6.1.1. Changing the Attitude Towards Team Cooperation
6.1.2. Improving the Attitude
6.1.3. Emphasizing Performance

6.2. Types of Conflict

6.2.1. Attraction-Attraction
6.2.2. Avoidance-Avoidance
6.2.3. Attraction-Avoidance

6.3. Family Mediation

6.3.1. Mediator is Present, Does Not Influence
6.3.2. Arbitration. Making Decisions by Listening to Both Parties
6.3.3. Neutral Evaluation. Drawing Conclusions from the Data Collected

6.4. Family Coaching

6.4.1. Similarities
6.4.2. Differences
6.4.3. Contradictions
6.4.4. Intrusiveness

6.5. Learning in Coaching

6.5.1. Declaring Bankruptcy
6.5.2. Shedding the Masks
6.5.3. Reengineering Ourselves
6.5.4. Focusing on the Task

6.6. Improvement Habits in Coaching
6.7. Focusing on the Activity

6.7.1. Focusing Techniques
6.7.2. Thought Control Techniques

6.8. Clear Goals

6.8.1. Defining Where We Are
6.8.2. Defining Where We Want to Go

6.9. Taking the Reins of Your Life: Proactivity
6.10. Positive Psychology
6.11. Conflict Management with the Conscious Emotional Bonding Model (CEB)

6.11.1. Identifying Emotions
6.11.2. Identifying the Right Emotions
6.11.3. Changing One Emotion for Another

6.12. Training to Deal with Conflicts in the Family

Module 7. Family Problems Requiring Intervention

7.1. Behavior Modification Techniques
7.2. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
7.3. Family-Oriented Treatments
7.4. Other Systemic Family Treatment Approaches
7.5. Strategic Therapy and Constructivism

Module 8. Types of Expert Evaluations and Contexts Surrounding Expert Psychological Testimony

8.1. Definitions Regarding Expert Evaluation
8.2. Adoptions
8.3. Guardianship and Custody
8.4. Simulation

Abordarás las dinámicas del Estrés Familiar con un temario que te llevará a recorrer un camino hacia la comprensión profunda de las relaciones familiares en crisis"