General Health PsychologyMaster's degree

This area is primarily focused on the promotion or restoration of psychological health. Their task is to work with adults with mental problems, disturbances or disorders.

The centres in this model can be, for example, public and private psychiatric hospitals, mental health centres, adult psychiatric units, private clinics, centres dealing with specific problems (e.g. personality disorders, eating disorders, psychotic spectrum disorders), among others.

These are benchmarks centres in their field like, for example, Aita Menni and Avances Médicos S.A.

This area also focuses on the promotion or restoration of psychological health. Work in this area is twofold:

• Work with children and adolescents with mental problems, disturbances or disorders.
• Work with children and adolescents affected by psychological problems arising from illness or disability.

The centres that belong to this model can be, for example, child and adolescent mental health centres, child and adolescent psychiatry units, private clinics, centres that deal with specific problems (APNABI, Ikasbila), among others.

This type allows the development of evaluation and intervention competences on different family problems, focusing on the prevention of risk situations directly conditioned by the family environment.

On the other hand, it also focuses on developing skills and competences aimed at promoting or restoring their psychological health and quality of life.

The associated problems include: intra-family violence, inter-parental conflict, difficulties in couples, etc. This can be developed in psychological services, counselling and family therapy services, services linked to sexuality and care for couples, etc.

Some of the usual collaborating centres are Hobetzen, Lagungo, Biko-Arloak.

It develops the assessment and intervention objectives in people with neuropsychological symptoms (cognitive, functional, emotional or behavioural deficits) derived from a mental disorder (e.g. schizophrenia) or a neurological pathology or injury (acquired brain damage, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, dementia, etc.)

It is developed in child and adult neuropsychology centres, mental health care centres (e.g. Aita Menni), associations (e.g. ADEMBI, Apnabi), elderly care homes, etc.