Update your practical skills for the management of patients addicted to opiate substances through this excellent Internship program" 

With regard to the treatment of addictions, medical sciences have made numerous discoveries in recent years. Some of the most striking innovations are the advances in the study of neuromodulators involved in the development of dependence to substances such as alcohol, tobacco, opiates, among others. Based on these research advances, academics have developed more effective intervention strategies as well as more durable relapse prevention mechanisms. Paradoxically, many specialists are not up to date with these new developments due to a teaching context in which programs with an excessive theoretical load prevail.  

In response to this problem, TECH has designed a 100% practical program where the professional will develop new skills from day one. This intensive classroom-based academic program includes a 3-week internship in a prestigious hospital. You will address real cases and actively participate in their intervention, recovery and follow-up process. For this purpose, you will have 8 consecutive 8-hour working days, from Monday to Friday.  

During this time, you will be able to discuss protocols and gain experience with the best experts in addiction treatment. You will also be able to rely on the educational support of an assistant tutor. This academic figure will be in charge of supervising their progress and integrating them in an exceptional way into the dynamics of this hospital activity. From this Internship program, the specialist will experience a considerable evolution of their skills that will lead them to greater success in the care they provide.

Enjoy an intensive 3-week internship in a prestigious center and update yourself in the latest clinical procedures in order to grow professionally"

The general objective of this Internship program is to favor the updating of specialists on the latest findings related to the management of addictions. In line with the most recent scientific evidence, the professional will address all these advances through an exceptional, intensive and immersive internship.

Thanks to TECH, you will incorporate the neurobiological bases of different addictions into your knowledge”

General Objectives

• Define the basic concepts commonly used by the scientific community in the area of addictions and formulate the different aspects to be taken into account by the expert in the assessment and intervention in these cases
• Offer a base of knowledge and procedures that provide the student with the necessary security and solidity to deal with 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
• Show the criteria for the choice of therapeutic goals when facing an addiction intervention

Specific Objectives

• Analyze practical cases where you can observe the differences between good and bad praxis
• Provide information on the current state of the drug market, as well as on plans to control drugs and addictions
• Adequately measure the phenomenon of addictions and to show the impact of addictions on the population
• Describe the cognitive, affective and relational processes affected in cases of addictions
• Establish the legal aspects to be taken into account in the evaluation and intervention in addiction cases
• Understand the effects of substances on the brain and the interrelation of the main neurological centers involved in addictions
• Detail the psychological evaluation techniques and instruments to be used by the student in their daily practice, as well as the areas of evaluation, 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
• Propose therapeutic procedures and techniques from other areas which could help to improve the efficiency of the treatment, to prevent relapses and maintain the results
• Approach other pathologies present in tobacco addiction, as well as prevent relapses and maintenance protocols
• Define the historical and social aspects related to smoking
• Establish the prevalence of tobacco use in the world
• Understand tobacco prejudice and study explanatory models of smoking behavior
• Establish the relationship between tobacco and different psychological and psychiatric diseases
• Approach tobacco addiction from biological, behavioral and psychotherapeutic perspectives
• Define and classify the different types of alcoholic beverages to identify the problems related to them
• Get to know the impact and effects on health in healthy people
• Identify the neurobiology behind alcohol consumption
• Perform a psychological assessment of patients with alcohol addiction in order to refer them to appropriate treatment
• Address the different pathologies that are present in alcohol addiction
• Define and classify the types of drugs that lead to cannabis addiction
• Classify cannabis-related problems, their impact and the health effects of cannabis addiction
• Understand the disorders related to cannabis addiction
• Assess and treat the person suffering from cannabis addiction through different treatments such as pharmacological or psychological treatment
• Define other interventions and types of intervention programs
• Address other pathologies present in cannabis addiction
• Make a classification of the most frequent psychostimulant substances
• Establish the most common forms of consumption of psychostimulant substances
• Establish the impact and effects of psychostimulant substances on health
• Define the neurobiology of addiction to psychostimulant substances
• Address different treatments to manage addiction to psychostimulant substances and perform proper relapse prevention and maintenance
• 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
• Expose the different types of assessment to be performed in the case of addictions, as well as provide the necessary knowledge for the correct interpretation of tests that should not be performed by the professional
• Recognize the signs which indicate prescription of an addiction treatment
• Identify the real situation of the addict and their motivation for change in order to assign the most appropriate therapeutic goals to their case
• Guide the student to incorporate practices that have proven to be effective in addiction cases for a successful approach to addictions
• Analyze the attitudes and actions which favor efficient multidisciplinary intervention

Throughout this intensive internship you will be up-to-date on the latest time-limited psychotherapy procedures in the approach to smoking"