Child and adolescent psychopathology, a branch with a future perspective

Child and adolescent psychopathology is one of the branches most demanded by psychology professionals. However, despite this growing interest, it is a specialty that can only be fully understood from a comprehensive and evolutionary perspective..

Thus, TECH Technological University has designed an online master's degree that includes an updated review of this discipline, making use of an innovative learning methodology, the Relearning.

Personality develops from our own psychological and psychopathological experiences. In this way, childhood and adolescence are the stages of greatest sensitivity for this process, which cannot be understood without first understanding the keys to the infant's emotional and cognitive dynamism..

A review from the traditional to the most current

In this sense, TECH's program focuses on psychic illness during childhood and adolescence, paying special attention to the importance of contexts in these disorders.

Thus, throughout the 8 modules that make up the master's degree, the student will address issues of special importance in this branch, such as pathological universes at these ages, the etiology of child and adolescent psychopathology, personality disorders and intervention pharmacological, among others.

Similarly, the program includes the new disorders that have appeared in recent years, derived from the current social context, and that have not yet been registered in the American Psychiatric Association Book (DSM-5), giving it enormous importance for the training of professionals.

In addition, a topic of special importance today is also addressed: adult psychopathology and its impact on childhood and adolescence. In this way, the student will receive not only the most relevant knowledge that makes up the corpus of this specialty, but also the most current and relevant topics derived from our model of contemporary society..

Thus, the professional will have the most valued skills in the industry, among which stand:

• Manage the clinic of childhood and adolescence, as well as the dynamics of therapeutic time.
• Conduct a rigorous psychopathological study.
• Manage emotional crises within a session with children or adolescents.
• Mastering the assessment and intervention tools using all the senses.
• Identify and use information from the people around the child and adolescent.
• Describe the patient's emotional patterns.
• Master the relationship to become a reference for the patient without competing with their parents or current references.
• Manage and stabilize the emotional and affective deficiencies of the patient within the intervention.
• Mastering and managing the differential characteristics with which psychological pathologies occur at these ages.
• Use decision trees to permanently perform a differential diagnosis.

For this, the program includes more than 75 clinical cases presented by experts, graphic and schematic contents, diagnostic-therapeutic novelties, practical exercises, self-assessment processes and an interactive teaching system, focusing learning on a repetition methodology, known as Relearning.

The method Relearning has established itself as one of the most innovative techniques in teaching. This focuses on the repetition of knowledge, which is presented through different modalities, starting from traditional theoretical lessons to the incorporation of the most current teaching technology, making use of audiovisual resources such as interactive videos and practical exercises.

In this way, the student not only learns faster, but also more effectively, making knowledge last longer in memory..

In addition, the program includes in its teaching staff professionals belonging to the field of psychopathology in youth, who pour their work experience into this training.

Undoubtedly, in child and adolescent pathology, as well as in its intervention, it is essential to have highly qualified professionals, with the aim of optimizing the quality of care and improving the well-being and mental health of the youngest in their development stage.