Improve your knowledge through this program, where you will find the best teaching material with real clinical cases. Learn here about the latest advances in the speciality to be able to perform quality psychological practice"

This program is unique in that it is designed to provide you with the necessary knowledge to be able to intervene as a specialist in psychogeriatrics. It is also unique because it incorporates for the first time the variable of psychotherapy for the elderly, changing the rhythms of intervention that we perform in adult psychotherapy.

There is no other course on the market that has really designed its own strategies for the elderly brain. The majority try to alleviate the sequelae of the illnesses or simply support the elderly, trying to reduce their suffering. In this program we design a whole intervention that is guided by the knowledge of brain functioning from the age of 65, and that aims not so much to make a palliative treatment, but to try to get the elderly person who suffers can get out of this suffering and thereby settle in the satisfaction.

Can we say that a 70-year-old is an old man? The advances of medicine, dietetics and above all health care, place us life expectancy ever further, and therefore it is necessary to have a regiment of psychologists and doctors who are specialized in old age disorders, as they are represented today. 

Update your knowledge through the postgraduate certificate in Intervention in the Family of the Elderly , in a practical way and adapted to your needs"

This postgraduate certificate in Intervention in the Family of the Elderly contains the most complete and up-to-date program on the market. The most important features include:

• Development of clinical cases presented by experts in the different specialties
• 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 assessment and performance of the expert's report
• 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
• 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

This program may be the best investment you can make in the selection of a refresher program for two reasons: in addition to updating your knowledge in Intervention in the Family of the Elderly , you will obtain a postgraduate certificate endorsed by TECH Technological University"

Its teaching staff includes health professionals from the field of psychology, who contribute their work experience to this program, as well as renowned specialists belonging to leading scientific societies.

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.

The design of this program is based on Problem-Based Learning, by means of which the psychologist must try to solve the different professional practice situations that arise throughout the course. For this reason, you will be assisted by an innovative, interactive video system created by renowned and experienced experts in the field of psychology with extensive teaching experience.

The program includes real clinical cases and exercises to bring the course closer to the psychologist's clinical practice"

TECH applies the Relearning method, allowing to consolidate the concepts in a simple way, achieving a successful development of the postgraduate certificate"

The main objective of the program is the development of theoretical and practical learning, so that the psychologist can master in a practical and rigorous way the Intervention in the Family of the Elderly .

This updating program will provide you with a sense of confidence in the practice of psychology, which will help you to grow personally and professionally"

General Objectives

• Provide the psychologist with knowledge about the complexity of family dynamics
• Provide skills to deal with the psychological state of the elderly
• Learn how to design multidisciplinary intervention protocols for old age
• Master evaluation, differential diagnosis and intervention in old age
• Provide skills to involve the family in the intervention with the elderly

Specific Objectives

• Develop psychosocial intervention protocols, taking into account the role of the patient in their family
• Learn about listening and managing silence with elderly patients
• Understand and master the therapeutic situation in order to become a referent for a elderly person
• Provide skills to understand and relate to the loss of patients, and from there to accompany them in the transition
• Learn the appropriate dynamics for intervention in the elderly
• Understand and know the differential aspects of mental disorders at this age
• Know the clinical and prognostic features of the various disorders of old age
• Describe and design protocols with patients who take multiple drugs for different chronic disorders
• Gain mediation and negotiation skills on benign aspects that are overvalued in the elderly
• Reposition the therapy towards a regressive and not so much progressive direction in the patient's mental timeline

Make the most of this opportunity and take the step to get up to date on the latest developments in the Intervention in the Family of the Elderly "