A Postgraduate certificate to help your patients develop their human and personal potential” 

Unexpressed emotional distress ends up generating problems that have repercussions on physical health. Personal conflicts or a stressful lifestyle can generate various psychological disorders in the subject with the potential to lead to psychosomatic disorders. In this sense, it has been shown that, although the latter manifest physical symptoms, medical treatment will end up being ineffective if it is not combined with psychological intervention. 

That is why tackling the root of the patient's internal conflicts through psychology requires psychologists who have mastered the most appropriate psychotherapies for these cases. In this line, the observation of the progress of psychosomatic subjects undergoing different psychological techniques has shown that the Gestalt Model is one of the therapies with the best results. For this reason, this TECH program provides the preparation that psychologists need to help their patients in consultation, leaving behind those annoying symptoms.

Thanks to the Postgraduate certificate in Psychosomatic Intervention from the Gestalt Approach, psychologists will delve into the most useful suppressive and integrative techniques and will provide their patients with tools to help them cope with themselves. In this way, psychology professionals will make patients become aware of the present, something that has been proven to significantly improve mental state. By working on self-esteem and self-realization, with Gestalt psychologists will excel in the treatment of these disorders with the latest educational methodologies.

And all this will be achieved from home, thanks to an online format that allows students to take the program wherever they wish and manage their learning deadlines at their convenience. They will also have unlimited access from day one to the Virtual Campus, where they will find valuable interactive resources and the largest digital library on the subject.  

Become a specialist in Gestalt Therapy without leaving home and improve your intervention with psychosomatic patients”

This Postgraduate certificate in Psychosomatic Intervention from the Gestalt Approach contains the most complete and up-to-date program on the market. The most important features include: 

• The development of practical cases presented by experts in Gestalt model 
• 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   

Become the master of your learning thanks to TECH and manage your time at your convenience to combine the program with your professional activity”

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.

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 education programmed to learn 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 students will be assisted by an innovative interactive video system created by renowned and experienced experts. 

Teach your patients to face themselves through the Gestalt Model"

Analyze in this Postgraduate certificate the types of dreams according to Gestalt Psychology and provide your patients with the necessary tools to face them"

The syllabus of the Postgraduate certificate in Psychosomatic Intervention from the Gestalt Approach contains all the keys for students to master the Gestalt Model in this kind of disorders. In this way, they will examine in depth fundamental tools to teach patients to express their emotions and focus on the present. Topics include the analysis of role-playing, defense mechanisms in this psychotherapy, types of sleep and other useful techniques to work on the psychological problems that cause physical symptoms.

The outstanding teaching team has overseen this syllabus so that it contains all the key elements that will ensure the success of psychologists graduating with Gestalt Therapy for psychosomatic patients” 

Module 1. Psychological Intervention in Psychosomatic Disorders Using Gestalt

1.1. Suppressive Techniques

1.1.1. Experiencing Nothingness
1.1.2. Making Sterile Emptiness become Fertile Emptiness
1.1.3. Avoiding "Talking about" and Encouraging Living

1.2. Detecting the "Shoulds"
1.3. Detecting "as if" Role Playing
1.4. Expressive Techniques

1.4.1. Externalizing the Internal
1.4.2. Expressing the Unexpressed
1.4.3. Completing or Complementing Expression

1.4.3.1. Role-Paying Games
1.4.3.2. Working on Problems in an Imaginary Way
1.4.3.3. Reviving Situations in a Healthy Way

1.5. Look for the Direction to Make the Direct Expression

1.5.1. Continuous Repetition
1.5.2. Exaggeration and Development
1.5.3. Translation: Expressing in Words What is Done

1.6. Confronting Oneself

1.6.1. Taking on Responsibility
1.6.2. Allowing Fears to Surface
1.6.3. Getting People to Express Their Feelings

1.7. Action and Identification

1.7.1. Acting out Your Feelings and Emotions

1.8. Integrative Techniques

1.8.1. Incorporate or Re-Integrate Aligned Parts:
1.8.2. Intrapersonal Encounter
1.8.3. Dialog between "I Should" and "I Want"
1.8.4. Assimilation of Projections: Living the Projection as One's Own

1.9. Dreams in Gestalt

1.9.1. Living the Dream, Not Explaining It
1.9.2. Types of Dreams in Gestalt Psychology (Marta Suárez)

1.10. Defense Mechanisms in Gestalt Psychology
1.11. Facilitating Internal and External Contact
1.12.  Self-Regulation of the Organism

1.12.1. Desensitization
1.12.2. Projection
1.12.3. Introjection
1.12.4. Retroflection
1.12.5. Deflection
1.12.6. Confluence
1.12.7. Fixation
1.12.8. Retention

Enjoy a very different learning experience from the traditional one with interactive diagrams, video summaries or specialized readings of interest”