Postgraduate in Occupational Therapy in Mental Health

Mental health is directly related to various human occupations and each act of life. The occupational therapist has to develop a multidimensional vision of relationships between people and environments and between each person and their most significant environment. Therefore, the postgraduate degree in occupational therapy in Mental Health offers you the necessary knowledge to identify disorders, carry out their evaluation, the knowledge to carry out the recovery work of people in an effective way to help them be autonomous and maintain their own basic personal care and learn to develop occupational interventions in mental health.

- Make a survey of diseases and medical conditions. - Know schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. - Know the psychosocial and environmental problems. - Know disorders such as personality, sleep, food etc. - Learn the areas of intervention (rehabilitation, integration and inclusion). - The fundamental elements of the profession in healthcare practice. - To be able to elaborate programs in occupational therapy. - Design, implement and evaluate programs in occupational therapy. - Learn the individual intervention process with the person and the environment. - Describe the importance of occupation in the increase in autonomy and independence in people with some type of disability or difficulty in carrying out routine activities (AVD). - Provide comprehensive enabling care, through occupational and personal and social adjustment programs, in order to achieve the greatest possible personal development. - Improve the quality of life of people participating in the activity of occupational service. - Know the importance of the level of personal autonomy in people with disabilities. - Enable learning, training and development of skills related to the scope of occupational training. - Contribute, through training and occupation, to a greater and more effective participation in social life, to the development of their personal autonomy and to the improvement of their self -esteem.

- Make a survey of diseases and medical conditions. - Know schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. - Know the psychosocial and environmental problems. - Know disorders such as personality, sleep, food etc. - Learn the areas of intervention (rehabilitation, integration and inclusion). - The fundamental elements of the profession in healthcare practice. - To be able to elaborate programs in occupational therapy. - Design, implement and evaluate programs in occupational therapy. - Learn the individual intervention process with the person and the environment. - Describe the importance of occupation in the increase in autonomy and independence in people with some type of disability or difficulty in carrying out routine activities (AVD). - Provide comprehensive enabling care, through occupational and personal and social adjustment programs, in order to achieve the greatest possible personal development. - Improve the quality of life of people participating in the activity of occupational service. - Know the importance of the level of personal autonomy in people with disabilities. - Enable learning, training and development of skills related to the scope of occupational training. - Contribute, through training and occupation, to a greater and more effective participation in social life, to the development of their personal autonomy and to the improvement of their self -esteem.

This postgraduate degree in occupational therapy in Mental Health prepares you to know in depth the scope of psychology related to the Diagnostic Mental Health Interview, learning the different disorders that can be experienced in patients and to be able to treat them professionally and thus be an expert in intervention in occupational therapy.

Mental health is directly related to various human occupations and each act of life. The occupational therapist has to develop a multidimensional vision of relationships between people and environments and between each person and their most significant environment. Therefore, the postgraduate degree in occupational therapy in Mental Health offers you the necessary knowledge to identify disorders, carry out their evaluation, the knowledge to carry out the recovery work of people in an effective way to help them be autonomous and maintain their own basic personal care and learn to develop occupational interventions in mental health.

This training is not included in the scope of official regulated training (Infant Education, Primary Education, Secondary Education, Official Professional Training FP, Baccalaureate, University Degree, Official University Master and PhD). It is therefore a complementary and/or specialization training, aimed at acquiring certain skills, skills or aptitudes of a professional nature, being able to be barely as merit in workbags and/or opposition competitions, always within the complementary training section and/or continuous training being always essential to review the specific requirements of the public labor stock of the public labor stock market.