Description

A professional master’s degree that will give you the opportunity to be aware of the ongoing advances in clinical psychological care for minors”

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With the development of this professional master’s degree in Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, psychology professionals will guarantee the development of their skills to deal with children and adolescents. In these stages, the clinical approach has new nuances, making it essential to establish a relationship of trust between the patient and the therapist. For this reason, this program will encourage the deployment of strategies that motivate patients to actively participate in therapy.

A program taught entirely in online mode, where students will have the opportunity to delve into the child and adolescent diseases, allowing in turn to expand knowledge in the new techniques used in the therapeutic relationship with the infant, as well as the role played by the family in certain interventions. Likewise, this university education will allow students to learn about recent research that delves into treatment programs that address depression and anxiety, ADHD, personality disorder or eating disorders. 

A whole process of renewal of knowledge that will be possible thanks to the specialized teaching team that imparts this degree. The multimedia content provided by the teachers will serve to show in a more agile and enjoyable way the pathological universes, the intervention techniques, as well as the current regulations for the diagnosis and evaluation of learning difficulties in educational centers.

TECH consequently offers a degree that facilitates the updating of the psychology professional with a flexible study plan. Students can access the entire syllabus from the first day, without fixed timetable sessions and using only an electronic device to connect to the virtual platform. A modality that facilitates the renewal of knowledge while balancing work and/or personal responsibilities with quality education. 

Access this university program 24 hours a day, without presence and using only a device with internet connection” 

This professional master’s degree in Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology contains the most complete and updated program on the market. The most important features of the program include:

  • Practical cases presented by experts in Psychology
  • 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

Access to the most exhaustive knowledge in the assessment protocols to be followed by formal education centers"

The program’s teaching staff includes professionals from sector who contribute their work experience to this training program, as well as renowned 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 immersive training programmed to train in real situations.

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

Perform an intervention from a clinical perspective, using the tools of behavioral modification"

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With this university degree, delve into the future perspectives in the treatment of child and adolescent psychopathologies"

Objectives

This professional master’s degree provides the psychology professional with renewed knowledge in the area of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. In this way, at the end of the 12-month online course, students will have acquired the intervention techniques and treatments currently used, as well as the skills that the therapist must develop with the patient and the figure of the family in therapies with minors. The expert teaching staff will ensure that students achieve their goals of knowledge renewal, thanks to the multimedia material provided.

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The real cases that you will find in this program will provide you with simulations that will be very useful in your daily clinical practice"

General Objectives

  • Describe the therapeutic alliance between the psychotherapist and the minor
  • Analyze the changes in behavior during the life cycle
  • Differentiate between the evolutionary adaptation and adaptability of human beings
  • Explain the family system framework in single-therapist, single-patient psychotherapy
  • Master psychodiagnosis and assessment 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 of clinical psychology in 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 emergence of clinical child and adolescent psychology and the importance of the study of children and adolescents in the field of psychology
  • Gain knowledge about development and the differences between what is considered normal and pathological in childhood and adolescence
  • Delve into the influential theories of child development in relation to their influence on childhood and adolescent psychopathology

Module 2. Therapeutic relationship with the infant, assessment and diagnostic process in child and adolescent psychopathology

  • Get to know the process of the therapeutic relationship with the infant and adolescent in clinical child and adolescent psychology, and also to know the most appropriate forms of communication for the success of therapy
  • in the child and adolescent stage
  • Identify the clinical assessment and diagnostic process used with patients in the child and adolescent stage
  • Study the assessment instruments and the areas of importance to be assessed in the early childhood 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

  • Understand the influence of developmental contexts on child and adolescent psychopathologies
  • Study the differences between the autonomous SELF, social SELF and 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 the clinical psychological therapy of childhood and adolescence

  • Gain knowledge of the main pathological universes of childhood and adolescence in clinical therapy
  • Learn to recognize and differentiate the different pathological universes related to the child and adolescent stage
  • Gain knowledge about the diagnostic criteria of the pathological universes according to the DSM-V
  • Learn the characteristics of the child and adolescent stage in each pathological universe
  • Analyze the differential characteristics of each pathological universe according to DSM-V information
  • Study the existing comorbidities in each pathological universe mentioned

Module 5. Protocols and frameworks for the diagnosis and assessment of learning difficulties in formal education centers

  • Guidelines for assessment protocols to be followed by formal education centers at different educational levels
  • Examine different standardized assessment tests in reading and writing
  • Analyze assessment protocols in non-formal education, higher education or teaching competencies

Module 6. Intervention Techniques

  • Establish different intervention tools in order to treat children and adolescents
  • Get to 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

Module 7. Treatment and intervention of child and adolescent psychopathologies

  • Identify the main treatments for clinical psychopathologies in childhood and adolescence
  • Study the different modulating theories of human behavior in childhood
  • Gain knowledge about the future perspectives in the treatment of child and adolescent psychopathologies

Module 8. Behaviour Modification

  • Analyze the basics of behavior modification techniques
  • Get to know and recognize the different theoretical currents of behavior modification
  • Identify how to apply behavior modification techniques

Module 9. Intervention and treatments in clinical child and adolescent psychology

  • Get to know the main treatment programs
  • Delve into what ICT is and their usefulness in clinical psychology
  • Analyze current and future treatments linked to new technologies

Module 10. Treatment Programs

  • Gain knowledge about the relevant data on the treatment of the most significant disorders for the child and adolescent population
  • Study the main aspects of intervention in clinical disorders specific to childhood and adolescence
  • Determine the future prognosis of some clinical disorders in childhood and adolescence
  • Study therapies and intervention techniques that are effective in clinical disorders
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Enroll in this professional master’s degree to access the latest advances in anxiety disorders, depression and stress in adolescents”

Professional Master's Degree in Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology

The mental health of young people and adolescents stands out as one of the most relevant topics in modern times, and there is great interest on the part of many governmental and private entities in improving the health services responsible for child and adolescent psychological care. This situation has generated, in turn, an exponential growth in the labor demand for psychology professionals specialized in this field. Understanding academic updating as a fundamental element for an adequate performance in the area and an optimal labor insertion in the sector, in TECH Global University we have designed our Professional Master's Degree in Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology focused on the qualification of the professional. In this postgraduate program we will delve into the new techniques of behavior modification used in the processes of psychological intervention to the various disorders of possible affectation in childhood and adolescence. Likewise, it will delve into the modernization of the following aspects: the elements to be taken into account in the planning and elaboration of a structured clinical interview focused on child and adolescent patients; and the different treatment alternatives applied to the management and care of cases of depressive disorder in adolescence.

Study an online Professional Master's Degree in Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology

The large number of particularities and factors to be considered in the development of a process of assessment, care and psychological support applied to child and adolescent patients highlight this sector as one of the most demanding in terms of the degree of expertise, skill and knowledge of its specialized professionals. In our Professional Master's Degree, child and adolescent psychology will be approached from the comprehensive view of the great scope and possibilities offered by the continuous development of the sector, allowing the updating of the following topics: the understanding of the impact of factors such as parent-child bonds, family functioning and possible close deaths on the mental health of children and adolescents; and the knowledge of the different ways of intervention of clinical psychology in the care of young patients with disorders of the antisocial spectrum.