Relieve your patient's experience and suffering after receiving a terminal diagnosis"

Accompanying patients and their families throughout the cancer process reaches its climax when they receive a terminal diagnosis. Therefore, the physician must demonstrate the technical, emotional and human capacity to help the bereaved cope with this difficult moment.

As a result, healthcare professionals should be aware of the palliative care a patient receives at the end of life, thus providing useful information to help alleviate the experience and suffering. For this reason, this Postgraduate Diploma in Emotional Intervention at the End of Life and Grief in Oncological Psychology will help students to learn about the conflicts that arise due to the beliefs and values between the medical team and the patient's family when facing death.

In addition, they will also be trained to help the patient's family members to accept the impending loss before it occurs, ensuring a healthy mourning and guidance to find the meaning of life after having experienced the process of cancer. It is important for the student to understand that this is accompanied by a series of physical and emotional symptoms that, if left untreated, will lead to pathological grief, requiring pharmacological treatment to counteract the feeling of discomfort.

Furthermore, there will be a debate focused on the ethical aspects of medicine in dealing with terminal cancer patients. Here, the need should focus on guaranteeing the values and principles of the patient without forgetting that  they are an individual being with beliefs and aspirations. For this reason, there are certain laws that help guarantee their wishes in the face of alternative care, such as assisted suicide or euthanasia. 

End-of-life care helps the patient and their family in the transition towards healthy and necessary bereavement”

This Postgraduate diploma in ##TITULO## contains the most complete and up-to-date educational program on the market. The most important features are:

• Practical cases presented by experts in Psycho-Oncology 
• The graphic, schematic, and eminently 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  
• Special emphasis on innovative methodologies for psychological intervention with cancer patients   
• 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 

Take preventive actions to care for your cancer patient's family members" 

The program’s teaching staff includes professionals from the 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.

Spiritual beliefs are a fundamental pillar when facing death"

Be prepared to face the moral questions of assisted suicide"

In oncology and healthcare, there is a need for empathetic physicians who understand the pain of patients and their families. That is why this program brings together the best professionals to impart all the knowledge the student needs to address the stress and distress of those affected by cancer. In this way, they will fully understand the grieving process that follows the death of a loved one, and the importance of providing support to patients in coping with the news of a terminal diagnosis. 

The latest research has determined that religious beliefs help to accept the moment of death"

Module 1. Protocols for Emotional Intervention at the End of Life 

1.1. Palliative Care Objectives 
1.2. Evaluation of Suffering 
1.3. Process of Psychosocial Adaptation at the End of Life

1.3.1. Adaptive vs. Maladaptive Reactions

1.4. Triadic Interaction Model for Patients, Family and Healthcare Professionals 
1.5. Specific Interventions Centered on the Patient 

1.5.1. Anxiety 
1.5.2. Sadness 
1.5.3. Hostility 
1.5.4. Fear 
1.5.5. Blame 
1.5.6. Denial 
1.5.7. Withdrawal

1.6. Specific Needs of the Family. Assessment of the Patient-Family Unit 

1.6.1. Conspiracy of Silence 
1.6.2. Family Claudication 

1.7. Interventions Oriented Towards Health Professionals

1.7.1. Working in Multicultural Teams
1.7.2. Prevention of Burnout Syndrome

1.8. Attention to the Spiritual Needs of the Patient 

1.8.1. Spiritual Care Model of SECPAL (Spanish Society of Palliative Care). 
1.8.2. Existential Angst and Religious Experience 

1.9. Psychological Intervention in Pediatric Palliative Care 
1.10. Advance Decision Making Process and Planning (ADP)

1.10.1. Declaration and Registry of Advance Vital Wills  

Module 2. Grief Management

2.1. Death , Culture and Society

2.1.1. Health Professionals in the Face of Death 

2.2. Psychological Evaluation of Grief

2.2.1. Interview and Specific Instruments for Assessment

2.3. Common Reactions to Grief

2.3.1. Normal Grief and Complicated Grief 
2.3.2. Vulnerability Factors 
2.3.3. Differential Diagnosis Between Grief and Depression

2.4. Main Theoretical Models About Grief 

2.4.1. Bowlby's Attachment Theory
2.4.2. Nuclear Beliefs and Meaning Reconstruction 
2.4.3. Conceptual Models About the Trauma

2.5. Objectives of Intervention in Grief and Recommended Interventions

2.5.1. Facilitating the Normal Process of Grief. Prevention of Complicated Grief 
2.5.2. Suggestions for Intervention Before and After the Death 
2.5.3. Bereavement Psychotherapy from an Integrative Relational Model

2.6. Group Intervention in Attention to Grief

2.6.1. Psychological Intervention Grief Due to the Loss of a Child

2.7. Stages of Grief

2.7.1. Bereavement Tasks

2.8. Grief in Children 
2.9. Suicide and Cancer 
2.10. Psychopharmacology in Attention to Grief

Module 3. Ethical Aspects in Psycho-Oncology and Psychology of Palliative Care 

3.1. Telling the Patient the Truth or Not. Managing the Bearable Truth 
3.2. Cancer and Ethics: A Complex Interaction 

3.2.1. Principled Bioethics 
3.2.2. Personalistic Bioethics 
3.2.3. Double Effect Principle 

3.3. Anthropological Basis 

3.3.1. The Experience of Fragility 
3.3.2. The Experience of Suffering 
3.3.3. The Person as Wounded Healer 

3.4. Rights of the Cancer Patient 

3.4.1. Patient Autonomy Law 
3.4.2. Informed consent 
3.4.3. GDPR and Confidentiality of Medical History 

3.5. Ethical Duties of Health Care Workers Caring for Cancer Patients
3.6. Death with Dignity 

3.6.1. Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia 
3.6.2. Adequacy or Limitation of Treatment, Refusal of Treatment, Sedation, Therapeutic Obstinacy

3.7. Participation of the Patient in Their Process of Illness, Treatment and Decision Making 

3.7.1. Moral Dialogue 

3.8. Humanization in the Care of Cancer Patients 

3.8.1. Quality and Warmth 

3.9. Ethical Care Committees and Clinical Research 
3.10. Inequalities and Cancer Equity 

3.10.1. Psychological Care in Cancer in the National Health System in Spain 
3.10.2. Current Situation in Palliative Care  

Thanks to psycho-oncology approaches you will be able to show the human side of medicine"