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"

It is common knowledge that one of the professions that requires constant educational updating is medicine, because as science advances, so does the medical approach to the different existing pathologies. The treatment of addictions is no exception, and that is why Postgraduate certificate such as this one update the doctor's knowledge so that they are able to treat patients with this type of conditions from a new and more effective perspective than the ones previously used.

Update your knowledge and join the group of doctors who are changing medicine thanks to their knowledge and scientific contributions"

Module 1. Assessment, Prevention and Psychological Treatment in Addictions 

1.1. Assessment of the Physical Field and General State of Health
1.2. Assessment Through Laboratory Tests
1.3. Assessment of Neuropsychological Aspects
1.4. Assessment of Personality and Its Disorders
1.5. Assessment of Mental State and Its Disorders
1.6. Assessment of the Severity of Addiction to Substances
1.7. Assessment of the Severity of Addiction Not Related to Substances
1.8. Assessment of Psychosocial Aspects
1.9. Prevention of Addictions
1.10. Principles to Follow in the Treatment of Addictions
1.11. Therapeutic Objectives in the Treatment of Addictions and Motivation Towards Change
1.12. Transtheoretical Model
1.13. Cognitive-Behavioural Treatment: Commonly Used Techniques
1.14. Treatment Oriented Towards the Family
1.15. Group Therapy
1.16. Other Focuses of Treatment
1.17. Care Resources and Devices and Addiction Treatment

Module 2. Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment in Heroin and Morphine Addiction

2.1. Classification of Opiates and Opioids
2.2. Ways of Consuming Opiates and Opioids
2.3. Impact and Effect of Heroin and Morphine on Health
2.4. Neurobiology of Addiction to Heroin and Morphine
2.5. Disorders Related to Opiates
2.6. Psychological Evaluation in Opiates Addiction
2.7. Medical treatment
2.8. Psychological Treatment: Cognitive-Behavioural Treatment
2.9. Other Therapeutic Interventions and Types of Intervention Programs
2.10. Psychosocial Intervention in Special Populations
2.11. Approach to Other Pathologies Present in Addiction to Opiates
2.12. Prevention of Relapses and Maintaining Results

Lay the foundations for the growth of your skills thanks to this complete Postgraduate certificate"