A university program that provides you with renewed, quality content at the academic forefront in the health area”

This postgraduate diploma in Psychiatric Care in Emergencies is aimed at medical professionals who wish to deepen and update their knowledge in the care of patients suffering from mental illness. During the 6 months of this program taught in 100% online mode, the professionals will have an expert teaching team in the area and with extensive knowledge in the techniques and treatments used more recently in this field.

Thus, this program will delve into the different models of helping relationship between doctor-patient applicable, deepen the techniques used to improve the skills in first level interviews, deepen the recent advances in the detection of patients with suicidal behavior to provide a treatment plan according to their situation. In addition, this teaching will dedicate an important space to the patient who presents agitation addressing in detail the underlying causes, as well as the latest drugs used in the treatment and their characteristics. All this according to the legal aspects to which the medical professionals must adhere to the use of restrictive measures in agitation, as well as its indication and proper use.

This university program is therefore an excellent opportunity for the medical professionals who wishes to keep abreast of the latest developments in this area or renew their knowledge in certain points that this teaching unravels. A flexible program that can be accessed 24 hours a day, as there are no sessions with fixed schedules, and to have from the first day of all the multimedia and cutting-edge content offered by this teaching. To do this, you will only need a device with an Internet connection with which you can view the agenda and even download it to consult it at any time.

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

This postgraduate diploma in Psychiatric Care in 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 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

This postgraduate diploma will keep you updated on the main skills to be developed in the care of patients with mental illness”

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 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. 

The design of this program focuses on Problem-Based Learning, by means of which the professionals must try to solve the different professional practice situations that are presented throughout the academic course. For this purpose, the students will be assisted by an innovative interactive video system created by renowned experts.

The Relearning system of this program will allow you to reduce the hours of study and acquire a more solid knowledge”

It delves into the psychopathological examination and complementary tests performed in psychiatric emergencies”

The main objective of this postgraduate diploma is that the medical professionals acquires through a high level teaching and with high level content, an updated knowledge in the area of psychiatric care, especially in the Emergency Department. To this end, this program will comprehensively address the approach to the patient who comes with mental illnesses, their diagnosis, the different interview techniques developed in the first consultation and the recently employed pharmacological treatments depending on the type of patient. The Relearning system, based on the reiteration of content, will facilitate the renewal of this knowledge.

A program with multimedia content that brings you all the keys used in psychiatric care”

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. Psychiatry in Emergency Medicine

• Delve into in the different daily crises in the psychiatric emergency room
• Delve into the management of psychiatric interviews
• Learn about various pattern of relationship models for doctor-patient relations
• Delve into first-level interviewing skills
• Apply active listening criteria and facilitate narrative activity
• Learn how to apply interviewing skills to suicidal patients
• Delve into the interviewing guidelines appropriate for dealing with agitated patients
• Analyze the different scales that are useful in psychiatric interviews
• Study complementary tests: which and when are they necessary? 

Module 2. Assessment and Action in Case of Suicidal Behavior

• Provide professionals involved in the emergency care of patients with suicidal behavior with recommendations on management, global assessment, including assessment of suicidal risk and action planning
• Indicate questionnaires or scales that can be used as support, such as the assessment of suicidal behavior
• Provide guidance in the choice to discharge or admit a patient with suicidal behavior
• Provide recommendations in the development of treatment plans for patients with suicidal behavior

Module 3. Psychomotor Agitation

• Understand the various underlying causes of agitation (somatic, psychiatric, pharmacological or psychoactive substances)
• Identify risk factors for aggressive behaviors in agitation
• Delve into different indications for the use of verbal, pharmacological and/or mechanical restraint
• Delve into the main characteristics of the drugs used in the treatment of psychomotor agitation
• Know the legal aspects before the use of a restrictive measure in cases of agitation, as well as indication and adequate use

With the most updated knowledge of this postgraduate diploma, it addresses the most appropriate pharmacological treatment for psychomotor agitation”