A university program that will allow you to deepen in psychiatric emergencies through a broad and modern multimedia content"

This postgraduate diploma, taught by a highly qualified teaching team with extensive experience in the area of psychiatric emergencies, will provide the health professionals with a specialization with an updated knowledge and at the academic forefront in the field of the major syndromes. Throughout the 6 months of duration of this university program, the teaching staff will pour all their knowledge in this field so that the students reach a deeper understanding in detail of mental illnesses, which are a serious health problem all over the world.

The medical professionals who seek to broaden their knowledge in this health area will delve into the main syndromes that may be found in a psychiatric emergency such as anxiety, depression, psychosis or schizophrenia. The importance of somatic diseases, which may underlie certain clinical pictures, both in terms of frequency and importance, makes a constant renewal of knowledge necessary. This will be possible in this university program thanks to the practical cases presented by the teaching staff, experts in psychiatric emergencies.

Likewise, this university program will provide medical personnel with the most recent treatments applied to patients who come to the psychiatric emergency room for a correct evaluation, accurate diagnosis and treatment to be applied based on recent scientific studies. An excellent opportunity to keep abreast of the latest techniques used with a flexible program, which allows the professionals to access without fixed schedules to all the content of the syllabus and its extensive library of multimedia resources in which, in an attractive way, you can update your knowledge in the field of psychiatric emergencies.

This online training provides you with a renewal of your knowledge in the causes of secondary depression and its management"

This postgraduate diploma in Major Syndromes in Psychiatric Emergencies contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market. The most important features include:

• Case studies presented by experts in Psychiatric Emergencies 
• 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 
• 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

With this postgraduate diploma you will be aware of all the advances that have been made in diagnosis and pharmacological treatments for patients with anxiety"

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

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

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

Delve into this postgraduate diploma in the differential diagnosis of psychosis"

Delve into the treatments currently used for elderly or pregnant patients with psychotic disorders"

This postgraduate diploma delves into the major syndromes in psychiatric emergencies, providing students with a deep and recent knowledge on nosological entities and their approach in clinical consultation, as well as the latest techniques applied in decision making depending on the origin, severity, risks and social support available to the patient. Likewise, the students will reach a renewed knowledge about affective and psychotic disorders with a Relearning system, which favors the foundation of concepts in a more agile way and reducing long hours of study.

This postgraduate diploma will provide you with the latest psychotherapeutic guidelines applied in psychiatric emergencies"

General Objectives

• Delve into emergency psychiatric care in an integrated manner within the health care setting 
• Delve into the psychiatric interview in emergency medicine and the elaboration of medical histories in this area of care 
• Correctly establish a diagnostic approach in the emergency department, organicity screening and approach to psychiatric pathology 
• Understand and master the different pathologies that are treated in the emergency department, differential diagnosis and treatment 
• Handle different emergency situations in psychiatry: suicidal patients, affective disorders, emergencies in anxious and psychotic patients and in special populations (the elderly and child and adolescent populations) 

Specific Objectives

Module 1. Anxiety Disorder Emergencies

• Differentiate between normal anxiety and pathological anxiety 
• Delve into different nosological entities and approach in emergency situations 
• Learn about psychological approaches to used in psychiatric emergencies 
• Update neurobiological and psychological knowledge of anxiety processes
• Update on pharmacological and psychological interventions effective in different anxiety disorders 
• Update on pharmacological and psychological interventions in special populations with anxiety 

Module 2. Affective Disorder Emergencies 

• Identify the main affective disorders 
• Delve into key elements in anamnesis for this type of patients 
• Identify causes of secondary depression 
• Enable decision making according to origin, severity, risks and social support 
• Delve into different emergency treatment options, as well as treating special populations 

Module 3. Psychotic Disorder Emergencies 

• Approach the concept and assessment of psychotic patients in emergency medicine 
• Delve into the basic conditions of care for psychotic patients in the emergency department 
• Analyze interview techniques used on psychotic patients 
• Synthesize the indications that may constitute an indication for hospitalization in a psychotic patient 
• Analyze the differential diagnosis for acute psychosis 
• Delve into treatment plans and approaches to possible side effects 

Learn about the latest techniques used to deal with anxiety and agoraphobia crises"