Understanding the behavior of young people is a complex task that must focus on family patterns as its point of departure. This advanced master’s degree in Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology and Family Therapy offers you a comprehensive overview of these areas, so that you may be more effective in your daily practice"

As an educational institution, TECH considers it essential for psychologists who study this advanced master’s degree to understand the different components involved in psychological treatment for children and adolescents, and, likewise, brain logic and processing at these ages, including particular behavior and interaction strategies in psychosocial relationships, as all this knowledge is crucial for successful psychological intervention with children and adolescents. 

Present-day clinical psychology should not only be able to provide students with a theoretical-scientific framework, but also with the skills they require in order to address mental illness in an effective way and, from there, become successful evaluators and generators of change in patients, both in terms of behavior as well as being able to help them overcome traumatic memories that lead to suffering cycles and emotional isolation. 

It has also become essential to know how families influence the behavior of young people. It is gradually being understood not only that family dynamics can help protect its members against certain adversities or are sometimes affected by personal disorders among the members, but that certain aspects of family functioning can contribute strongly to maladapted behaviour (especially among children and adolescents) in the family environment, as well as in other settings, and give rise to further imbalances, as is the case with emotional or psychosomatic disorders. 

Throughout this specialization, students will go through all the current approaches in the work of psychologists, with the different challenges that the profession brings. A high-level step that will become a process of improvement on both professional and personal levels.

We will not only take you through the theoretical knowledge we offer, but we will introduce you to another way of studying and learning, one which is simpler, more organic, and efficient. We will work to keep you motivated and to develop your passion for learning, helping you to think and develop critical thinking skills. And we will push you to think and develop critical thinking. 

This advanced master’s degree is designed to give you access to the specific knowledge of this discipline in an intensive and practical way. A great value for any professional.  

A high-level scientific program, supported by advanced technological development and the teaching experience of the best professionals" 

This advanced master’s degree in Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology and Family Therapy contains the most complete and up-to-date academic program in the university landscape. The most important features of the program include: 

• The latest technology in online teaching software
• A highly visual teaching system, supported by graphic and schematic contents that are easy to assimilate and understand
• Practical cases presented by practising experts
• State-of-the-art interactive video systems
• Teaching supported by remote training
• Continuous updating and retraining systems
• Autonomous learning: full compatibility with other occupations
• Practical exercises for self-evaluation and learning verification  
• Support groups and educational synergies: Questions to the expert, discussion forums and knowledge 
• Communication with the teacher and individual reflection work
• Content that is accessible from any, fixed or portable device with an Internet connection
• Supplementary documentation databases that are permanently available, even after the program

A training program created for professionals who aspire to excellence that will allow you to acquire new skills and strategies in a smooth and effective way" 

Our teaching staff is made up of working professionals. In this way we ensure that we deliver the educational update we are aiming for. A multidisciplinary team of doctors trained and experienced in different environments, who will develop the theoretical knowledge in an efficient way, but above all, they will bring their practical knowledge from their own experience to the course. 

This command of the subject is complemented by the effectiveness of the methodological design of this Grand Master. Developed by a multidisciplinary team of e-learning experts, it integrates the latest advances in educational technology. In this way, you will be able to study with a range of easy-to-use and versatile multimedia tools that will give you the necessary skills you need for your specialization.

The design of this program is based on Problem-Based Learning, an approach that views learning as a highly practical process. To achieve this remotely, we will use telepractice learning. With the help of an innovative interactive video system and bylearning from an expert, you will learn the skills you need to deal with real situations through their simulation. A concept that will allow you to integrate and fix learning in a more realistic and permanent way.  

We offer an in-depth and comprehensive immersion plan in strategies and approaches developed for this advanced master’s degree"

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Our goal is to prepare highly qualified professionals for work experience. An objective that is complemented, moreover, in a global manner, by promoting human development that lays the foundations for a better society. This objective is focused on helping professionals reach a much higher level of expertise and control. A goal that you will be able to achieve thanks to a highly intensive and detailed course.

If your goal is to improve in your profession, to acquire a qualification that will enable you to compete among the best, then look no further: Welcome to advanced master’s degree” 

General Objectives

• Describe the therapeutic alliance between the psychotherapist and the child or the adolescent
• Analyze the changes in behavior during the life cycle
• Identify healthy aspects and ill aspects of the child and adolescent
• Differentiate between the evolutionary adaptation and adaptability of human beings
• Describe the family system framework in single-therapist, single-patient psychotherapy
• Master psychodiagnosis and evaluation in the child and adolescent framework
• Master the technique for interviewing a child or adolescent
• Master the personality evaluation of these age groups
• Identify the role of the family in child and adolescent diagnosis
• Describe the intervention of clinical psychology in these age groups
• Develop sufficient skills to manage a child and adolescent clinic

Specific Objectives

• Understand psychological illness in children and adolescents
• Evaluate symptoms as an expression of the disease
• Understand the etiology of mental disorders in the child and adolescent population
• Analyze different concepts that psychologists need to take into account when dealing with children’s families
• Learn the tools required to manage child pathologies by focusing on family as a point of departure
• Understand family composition to provide patients with full therapeutic accompaniment
• Identify different types of families and their implication in psychopathology in children and adolescents
• Use the interview as an evaluation method. For this, students must develop a therapeutic frame and reference framework for conducting the interview
• Perform an intelligence assessment to estimate the patient's intellectual level and create a diagnostic process
• Use the appropriate protocol to evaluate patient communication and motor activity
• Learn about new perspectives on the diagnosis of mental illness
• Analyze different neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism spectrum, intellectual disability, among others
• Identify different psychotic disorders of possible neurological origin
• Understand anxiety disorders that develop in childhood, such as phobias, social anxiety or affective mutism
• Understand the manifestation of obsessive-compulsive disorders and those related to traumas
• Identify and analyze impulse control and behavioral problems
• Differentiate a substance abuse disorder from one of neurological origin
• Introduce students to concepts used for diagnosis of personality disorder
• Understand the clinical framework of personality disorders in the child and adolescent population
• Understand, identify and analyze different personality disorders, such as antisocial, narcissist and evasive personality among others
• Introduce the student to behavior modification techniques such as reasoning or “The Broken Record” technique
• Effectively carry out strategic and constructive therapy
• Identify the phases of encounter, unframing and restructuring
• Establish different intervention tools in order to treat children and adolescents
• Know the main theories of play, metaphors and stories as intervention techniques
• Apply certain intervention tools taking into account the social and emotional situation of the child and adolescent

 We are the largest Spanish-speaking online university in the world. We look to achieve success and to help you do the same”