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Diploma of Expert in Affective Neuroscience and Clinical Psychology
Competencies
B1. Possess and understand knowledge that provides a basis or opportunity for originality in the development and/or application of ideas, often in a research context.
B2. Students will be able to apply their acquired knowledge and problem-solving skills in new or unfamiliar environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their area of study.
B3. Students should be able to integrate knowledge and address the complexity of making judgments based on information that, while incomplete or limited, includes reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities associated with the application of their knowledge and judgments.
B4. That students know how to communicate their conclusions – and the knowledge and reasons
the latter that support them – to specialized and non-specialized audiences in a clear and unambiguous manner.
B 5. That students possess the learning skills that allow them to continue studying in a way that will be largely self-directed or autonomous.
E1. Know the methodology of research in Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
E2. Know the brain systems that support affective behavior, as well as their development and regulation.
E3. Understand the genetic and neurobiological foundations of personality and vulnerability to affective psychopathology, from the perspective of alterations in emotional regulation.
E4. Identify the neurobiological bases of affective and anxiety disorders, both in adults and in children and adolescents, as well as their pharmacological treatment.
E5. Relate psychological intervention to the more general concept of emotional regulation, integrating it also with neuroscience research.
E6. Identify therapeutic approaches to the treatment of affective psychopathology, and recognize how research in affective neuroscience contributes to changing the way we conceive psychological intervention.
E7. Know the rudiments and applications for psychopathology of brain activity modulation techniques.
E8. Practice and develop intervention protocols using brain activity stimulation and regulation techniques.
