There is still a huge gap between our knowledge of certain mental illnesses and our knowledge of personality disorders”

It is not easy or quick to establish a differential diagnosis of Personality Disorders with specific psychiatric diseases. Detecting this alteration in medical practice is of utmost importance. In most patients the abnormal features become apparent as early as childhood and adolescence, and remain hidden or ignored until adulthood. Personality traits are considered abnormal only to the extent that they are conflicting for the subject or society. Undoubtedly, the most frequent additional diagnosis in subjects with personality disorders is depression (or affective disorders). An important trend in current psychopathological research is the description of Personality Disorders in terms that allow for a reliable differential diagnosis. 

The term schizophrenia was introduced by Bleuler in 1911, who considered it more appropriate to emphasize the splitting that occurs in the association of ideas, emotions and contact with reality and social life. Today schizophrenia is still one of the greatest challenges of science, affecting, as is well known, about 1% of the population. Much progress has been made in the knowledge of this disease (or diseases), but if we analyze what is currently known and what is ignored, we could conclude that we know more and more, but we continue to ignore many of the enigmas of this or these diseases. Neuroleptics cannot teach the patient to develop vital and defensive resources nor can they improve a person's quality of life, except indirectly through their effect on cognitive disorganization and suppression of positive symptoms. In general, the psychosocial intervention of schizophrenics is aimed primarily at informing and educating the patient about the symptoms, course, prognosis and treatment of their illness, as well as the need for compliance and management of medication and identification of early signs of relapse.

Moreover, as it is an episodic disease that often returns after the acute episode to previous levels of normal functioning, the immediate consequence is that the individual between episodes tends to work, marry and have children in spite of his/her disease, because given the absence of symptoms, he/she is in a position to do so. Therefore, it is likely that the patient is often a spouse and/or parent in their family, rather than a single adult as is often the case in schizophrenia. 

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• Clinical cases presented by experts in the different specialties. 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
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• An algorithm-based interactive learning system for decision-making in the clinical situations presented throughout the course
• With special emphasis on evidence-based psychology and research methodologies in Psychology
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• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection

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General Objectives

• Describe the fundamentals of psychodiagnosis of psychotic disorders and personality disorders
• Perform differential diagnosis between personality disorders and psychotic disorders
• Describe the different subspecialties in the field of psychosis and personality disorders
• Train the professional on all the updated references on the diagnosis, intervention and therapeutic process in order to interact with the medication
• Describe with decision protocols the individualized study of family members to perform a rigorous psychopathological study
• Use decision trees to make a permanent differential diagnosis
• Frame all the information within a multidisciplinary framing model in the study of the biopsychosocial framework of the psychotherapy-pharmacology relationship in psychotic disorders and personality

Specific learning objectives of each module:

• Identify and use information from social and family agents
• Develop the intervention with the drug according to the mental logic of the different age groups
• Describe the effects on the social fabric of the psychotic patient
• Master the adverse and permanent effects of these diseases
• Manage and stabilize the emotional and affective deficiencies of the patient within the intervention
• Master and manage the differential characteristics of psychotic pathologies
• Identify and master the clinical and prognostic features of the different disorders of childhood and adolescence with pharmacological intervention due to these disorders
• Use the intervention to determine when it is necessary for other professionals to join process
• Developing and understanding mutations and new forms of disease in personality disorders
• Develop knowledge that discriminates an important problem of natural evolution within the process of family coexistence
• Manage and master the systemic psychopathology that causes these disorders
• Develop monitoring models that express the changes of stress pathologies and chronic pathological mental states

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