With this program, you will learn about the latest developments in clinical psychiatry, delving into issues such as molecular genetics applied to child psychiatry" 

The current major advances in psychiatry and child psychiatry are motivated by the enormous prevalence of this type of disorders in the population. Therefore, in response to this problem, new treatments and diagnostic techniques have been developed, so that the discipline has become even more precise in recent years. This situation demands, on the part of the professionals, an immediate update that allows them to incorporate the best procedures in the psychiatric field into their work.

This advanced master’s degree, therefore, is presented as a great option to get up to date in the discipline, and offers the specialist the most advanced contents on issues such as childhood fear anxiety disorder, classification of sleep and wakefulness disorders, catatonia, impulse control disorders, childhood language psychopathology or premenstrual dysphoric disorder, among many others.

In this way, physicians will be able to integrate the latest innovations in clinical psychiatry into their daily practice, and they will do so through a 100% online teaching system that will allow them to study at the time and place of their choice. No uncomfortable commuting to an academic center. No rigid schedules. In addition, you will have at your disposal a teaching staff of enormous prestige in this health field, which will ensure that the professional is updated in a convenient and effective way.

The best educational technology will be at your disposal to update you quickly and effectively: case studies, interactive summaries, master classes, video techniques..." 

This advanced master’s degree in Clinical Psychiatry contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market. The most important features include:

• Practical cases presented by experts in medicine
• 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 the self-assessment process can be carried out to improve learning
• Special emphasis on innovative methodologies in Psychiatry
• Theoretical lessons, questions to the expert, debate forums on controversial topics, and individual reflection work
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection

A teaching staff of great international prestige will accompany you throughout the learning process, ensuring that you keep up to date with the latest advances in psychiatry" 

Its teaching staff includes professionals from the field of medicine, who bring to this program the experience of their work, 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 an immersive educational experience designed to prepare students for real-life situations. 

This program is designed around Problem-Based Learning, whereby students 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.  

TECH's teaching system will allow you to continue developing your professional work without interruptions, studying whenever and wherever you decide"

This program will allow you to delve into aspects such as clinical management in psychiatry and neuroimaging studies"

This program has been designed to fulfill one main objective: to update the psychiatrist on the latest advances in the discipline, with emphasis on the most recent methods of diagnosis and treatment. Therefore, in order to achieve this goal, the physician will be able to enjoy in this advanced master’s degree the most up-to-date contents, a teaching staff of enormous international prestige and a highly efficient learning system designed for the practicing specialist. 

This program will allow you to achieve the objective of updating your knowledge in a way that is totally adapted to your professional circumstances" 

General Objectives

• Improve clinical skills in interviewing, examination and diagnosis in psychiatry
• Provide skills and strategies for clinical management in psychiatry
• Keep physicians’ knowledge of new advances in psychiatry up to date
• Master the skills for scientific research in psychiatry
• Improve professional communication skills
• Provide education for leadership in psychiatry
• Know the peculiarities of the development of different specific fields
• Know how to prevent and treat psychiatric epidemiology in the different stages of life
• Gain up-to-date knowledge of the therapeutic strategies in the latest advances in psychiatry
• Approach specific psychiatric problems
• Keep physicians’ knowledge of new advances in childhood psychiatry up to date
• Master the skills for scientific research in Childhood and Adolescent Psychiatry
• Provide education for leadership in Childhood Psychiatry
• Highlight the crucial importance of the stages of development for adult human beings
• Master the assessment of psychopathologies in childhood and adolescence
• Gain a deeper understanding of the expertise in perinatal psychiatry
• Master the psychopathological complexes grouped in clinical syndromes that are present in childhood and adolescence
• Gain up-to-date knowledge of the therapeutic strategies in the latest advances in childhood and adolescence psychiatry
• Address the specific problems of liaison and interconsultation psychiatry in childhood and adolescence
• Acquire the necessary knowledge for the management of emergency situations in child and adolescent psychiatry
• Master community intervention in childhood psychiatry

Specific Objectives

Module 1. Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders

• Gain in-depth knowledge of the tools for differential diagnosis and the treatments for the main psychotic disorders

Module 2. Mood Disorders

• Gain in-depth knowledge in order to create a treatment plan for mood disorders

Module 3. Anxiety or Fear-Related Disorders. Disorders Specifically Related to Stress. Dissociative Disorders

• Gain in-depth knowledge of the correct diagnosis oriented towards treatment
• Gain in-depth understanding of how anxiety disorders work

Module 4. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Related Disorders

• Know the evolution of a framework in the classifications, as well as the pathophysiological data

Module 5. Eating Disorders

• Understand how to identify eating disorders early on
• Gain in-depth knowledge of how to handle this type of disorder

Module 6. Disorders Due to Substance Use or Addictive Behaviors

• Gain in-depth knowledge of addictions to various substances
  Update students' knowledge of behavioral addictions

Module 7. Personality Disorders and Related Features

• Delve into the framework and classifications, as well as the correct formulation of the diagnosis and therapeutic plan

Module 8. Neurocognitive Disorders

• Know the protocols for correct, early-on diagnosis, insisting on the differential diagnosis of potentially treatable disorders

Module 9. Sleep and Wakefulness Disorders

• Delve into the physiology of circadian cycles
• Assess the limits of normality and distinguish between primary and secondary sleep disorders

Module 10. Other Disorders

• Gain an in-depth and exhaustive perspective of mental health disorders

Module 11. Psychiatry in the Different Stages of Life

• Describe the genetic and biochemical bases of human beings
• Gain in-depth knowledge of the processes of psycho motor, cognitive and psychosocial development in the first stages of a human’s life
• Access the knowledge and understanding of the different mental functions in the first stages of human life
• Know how to differentiate between the psychological disorders in the natural evolutionary changes
• Identify the factors that influence the integral development of the human being from the first stages of development
• Explain the contribution of the various scientific sources to the field of child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy

Module 12. Clinical Syndromes in Childhood and Adolescent Psychiatry

• Define the main psychopathological and clinical contents that occur in childhood and adolescence
• Understand the specificities for the clinical presentation of the different developmental stages
• Delve into the methods of clinical diagnosis in the different psychopathological processes
• Perform a sychodiagnostics sequence in childhood and adolescence
• Perform a differential diagnosis taking into account the evolutionary stage of the patient
• Value the interest of interconsultation-liaison work in its different modalities
• Be aware of the criteria for establishing a correct differential diagnosis of the different clinical and psychopathological pictures that present themselves in childhood and adolescence
• Manage the different classification systems of mental disorders in childhood 
• and adolescence, especially multi-axial types
• Describe the clinical assessment and diagnostic procedures in childhood and adolescence
• Gain sufficient skills for establishing differential diagnosis criteria in childhood and adolescence
• Adequately assess the multicausality and concausality of psychopathological and clinical disorders in childhood and adolescence
• Enhance the knowledge of new diagnostic methods in childhood and adolescence

Module 13. Psychopathology in Childhood

• Identify the treatment possibilities of psychopathological disorders in childhood and adolescence

Module 14. New Advances in Childhood Psychiatry

• Describe and respect bioethical approaches in childhood and adolescence
• Acquire the skills to deal with child patients
• Develop techniques to achieve the motivation and active participation of a child or adolescent patient in the diagnosis and intervention process
• Establish therapeutic guidelines for each type of disorder detected

Module 15. Liaison and Interconsultation Psychiatry: Psychosomatic Paidopsychiatry

• Elaborate the most appropriate treatment for the clinical picture diagnosed
• Design integrates therapeutic interventions

Module 16. Advances in Treatments in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

• Gain skills in the relevant management of psychotropic drugs in childhood and adolescence
• Apply the principles of inter-institutional and community work to children and adolescents due to the specific peculiarities of children and youth institutions

Module 17. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Emergencies

• Pragmatically approach emergency psychiatric situations in childhood and adolescence

Module 18. Professional Skills in Child Psychiatry

• Provide the professional with the ability to identify with the logic of the patient according to their age and the disorder
• Understand the scientific method applied a to research in psychiatry and psychotherapy in childhood and adolescence
• Become familiar with epidemiological and developmental psychopathology research procedures
• Perform research in the field of childhood and adolescence
• Develop protocols and tools that allow for intervention with safeguards
• Master the skills for efficient communication and establish leadership in Childhood Psychiatry
• Develop early detection and intervention plans in the perinatal period

Module 19. Clinical Management in Psychiatry

• Become familiar with the Public Health terminology applied to Mental Health
• Acquire the skills and strategies for clinical management in psychiatry

Module 20. Community Intervention in Childhood Psychiatry

• Understand the working of the social services
• Master knowledge of the childhood and adolescence peculiarities of medical-legal aspects in Childhood Psychiatry
• Design coordination protocols with adult mental health services
• Support and lead activities aimed at integration into the labor market
• Define the characteristics of intervention in schools

The eminently practical approach of this program will prepare you to meet the challenges of the present and future of psychiatry"