Take your education a step further by understanding the effects of heroin and morphine on the brain of addiction patients"

This postgraduate certificate is unique in that it offers the physician a multitude of techniques and tools to intervene in various types of addictions. Specifically, those involving morphine and heroin. Aimed at professionals who wish to specialize in this field, or who want to update their knowledge in this regard, the program offers the latest advances in this area based on the positive effects of the cognitive-behavioral approach.

In this way, the program covers heroin and morphine addiction as one of the fields that physicians will have to deal with most in their daily practice. This will help them to position and orient themselves in the intervention in a realistic and committed way, knowing the role they must play in the intervention together with other professionals and knowing how to apply the most appropriate techniques for each moment of the intervention process.

The teaching team of this program has made a careful selection of each of the topics of this program in order to offer the student the most complete study opportunity possible and always linked to current events.

As it is an online postgraduate certificate, the student is not constrained by fixed schedules or the need to move to another physical location, but rather, they can access the contents at any time of the day, allowing them to balance their professional or personal life with their academic life as they please.

Thanks to this postgraduate certificate you will learn how to approach heroin and morphine addictions from a new perspective based on cognitive-behavioral psychology"

This postgraduate certificate in Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention in Heroin and Morphine Addiction contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market. The most important features include:

• Development of clinical cases presented by medical experts
• 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
• New developments in the diagnostic and therapeutic performance in Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention in Heroin and Morphine Addiction
• An algorithm-based interactive learning system for decision-making in the clinical situations presented throughout the course
• With a special emphasis on evidence-based medicine and research methodologies in emergencies
• All of this will be complemented by 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 will be able to study comfortably, without the need for traveling or schedules. You will be the one who sets the pace of your studies"

It includes, in its teaching staff, health professionals belonging to the field of Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention in Heroin and Morphine Addiction, who bring to this program their work experience, in addition to recognized specialists belonging to scientific societies of reference.

Thanks to its multimedia content developed with the latest educational technology, they will allow the professional a situated and contextual learning, that is to say, a simulated environment that will provide an immersive learning programmed to prepare in 
real situations.

This program is designed around Problem-Based Learning, whereby the physician must try to solve the different professional practice situations that arise during the course. For this purpose, they will be assisted by an innovative, interactive video system created by renowned and experienced experts in the field of Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention in Heroin and Morphine Addiction with extensive teaching experience.

The postgraduate certificate includes real clinical cases and exercises to bring the content of the program closer to the clinical practice of a physician"

Addiction is a complex and profound public health problem. It is therefore crucial for physicians to update their knowledge in this field in order to offer quality education adapted to current standards"

From high-quality content and practical cases based on the latest postulates in the field, the students will be able to achieve their professional objectives by positioning themselves as a reference physician in the treatment of addictions. In this way, and from a cognitive-behavioral approach, the student will become a positive influence not only at an individual level for each patient, but also at a collective level for their positive contribution to the society that surrounds them.

Achieve your professional goals by studying with a University that prepares you to take on today's challenges in your profession"

General Objectives

• Analyze the current state of the world of heroin and morphine addiction
• Discover the neurological bases of different addictions
• Define the basic concepts commonly used by the scientific community in the field of addictions and formulate the different aspects to be taken into account by the physician in the assessment and intervention in these cases
• Offer a base of knowledge and procedures which provides the student with the necessary confidence and solid foundations to address real cases
• Reflect and practice different situations of intervention in cases of addictions
• Establish the differentiating criteria between the prevention and treatment of addictions, as well as the levels of prevention which already exist
• Provide the student with the keys to the evaluation framework in the case of addictions

Specific Objectives

• Understand the effects of substances on the brain and the interrelation of the main neurological centers involved in addictions 
• Highlight the techniques and tools of psychological assessment that the student will use in their daily practice, as well as the areas of assessment, in order to carry out a correct differential diagnosis as , well as the detection of dual pathology 
• Define the role of the psychologist in the assessment and intervention of addictions 
• Identify the necessary criteria to carry out a preventative intervention as well as the most appropriate type of intervention in each case
• Perform a classification of opiates and opioids 
• Establish the most common forms of consumption of these substances  
• Develop the impact and effects of heroin and morphine on health 
• Define the neurobiology of heroin and morphine addiction 
• Address different treatments for the management of heroin and morphine addiction, with proper relapse prevention and maintenance 

Take the opportunity and take the step to get up to date on the latest developments in addiction classification and taxonomy today"