This postgraduate diploma gives you the opportunity to grow as a teacher and expand your knowledge in child and adolescent psychology. Enroll now"

The work of the teacher is no longer exclusively the teaching of subjects. Their role as detectors of students with academic difficulties derived from certain disorders has become essential for their treatment by psychology professionals, as well as for the students' own academic development. This postgraduate diploma provides professionals with the most up-to-date and advanced knowledge in Child and Adolescent Assessment and Diagnosis. 

A program that provides students with the most commonly used instruments and techniques, as well as the new lines of research in the psychological approach to minors. In this way, students taking this qualification will acquire intensive learning about neurodevelopmental disorders, the influence of the socioeconomic position of the family, the culture and the media on minors. 

A program that will allow you to delve into the field of diagnostic criteria of pathological universes, in the most successful communication of therapy in the child and adolescent stage or in the evolution of child and adolescent psychopathologies. All this with multimedia content made up of video summaries, complementary readings and real clinical cases, which will be of great practical use in the classroom. 

TECH therefore gives teaching professionals the opportunity to grow in their professional performance with quality teaching that they can access 24 hours a day, without fixed schedule sessions and with just a computer, cell phone or tablet. In this way, students can advance in their professional careers without neglecting other areas of their lives, such as work or personal life. 

A 100% online education that you can access from any electronic device, anywhere in the world"

This postgraduate diploma in Child and Adolescent Assessment and Diagnosis contains the most complete and up-to-date educational program on the market. The most important features include:

• The development of 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 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

You are in front of a postgraduate diploma that will allow you to grow professionally balancing your work responsibilities with a quality education"

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

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

The design of this program focuses on problem-based learning, through which professionals must try to solve the different professional practice situations that arise during the academic course. For this purpose, students will be assisted by an innovative interactive video system developed by renowned experts.

Access 24 hours a day to the most current syllabus in relation to the assessment instruments used in the adolescent population"

Enroll now in a qualification where you will be able to acquire intensive learning on child and adolescent psychopathology"

This postgraduate diploma provides teaching professionals with the most advanced knowledge in the techniques and tools currently used in the diagnosis of children and adolescents. A program that will allow them to know in depth the pathological universes, knowing how to distinguish at the end of this teaching the differences between what is considered normal and pathological in the childhood and adolescent stage. This knowledge will be acquired thanks to the teaching material provided by the specialized teaching team that is part of this qualification. 

A university education that will allow you to develop broad skills for dealing with minors with psychopathologies"

General Objectives

• Describe the therapeutic bond between the psychotherapist and the minor patient
• Analyze the changes in behavior during the life cycle
• Differentiate between the evolutionary adaptation and adaptability of human beings
• Explain the framing of the family system in a single-therapist, single-patient psychotherapy
• Master psychodiagnosis and evaluation 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 in clinical psychology at these age groups
• Develop sufficient management skills in the child and adolescent clinical psychology

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 child and adolescent psychology and the importance of the study of children and adolescents in the field of psychology
• Gain knowledge about the development and the differences between what is considered normal and what is considered pathological in the child and adolescent stage
• 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

• Know the process of the therapeutic relationship with the child and adolescent in Child and Adolescent Psychology and know the most appropriate forms of communication for the success of therapy in the child and adolescent stage
• Identify the assessment and clinical diagnosis process used with patients in the child and adolescent stage
• Study the assessment instruments and the areas of importance to be assessed in the infantile-juvenile 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

• Get to know the influence of developmental contexts on childhood and adolescent psychopathologies
• Study the differences between the autonomous self, the social self and the family self
• Identify the characteristics that make a family pathological, the existing conflictive bonds and the influence of the family environment in the development of psychopathologies in the child
• Study the modulating risk and protective factors for infant and adolescent mental health

Module 4. Pathological Universes in Clinical Psychological Therapy of Childhood and Adolescence

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

Over 12 months, you will be able to delve into the pathological universes in childhood and adolescence in this postgraduate diploma"