Knowledge branch: Health Sciences
Area of knowledge: Behavioral Sciences and Psychology
Centre: Facultat de Psicologia i Logopèdia
Degree code: 2225
Master degree website: www.uv.es/mastdrog
Participating Universities: University of Valencia
Total credits of the degree: 120
Compulsory:90
Work placements/Internships:18
Final project:12
Years: 2
Places available: 20
Teaching modality: Presencial
Language teaching: ------
First enrolment credit fee:35.34€
First enrolment credit feefor non-EU and non-communicating students from abroad:70.68€
Academic Coordinating Committee: José Miñarro López (Co-director)
Carmen Manzanedo Pérez (Co-directora)
M. Carmen Arenas Fenollar
Israel Caballero Jarque
María Teresa Cortés Tomás
Inmaculada Montoya Castilla
Javier Pons Diez
Marta Rodríguez Arias
Julia Aguilar Izquierdo (PTGAS)
Academic, scientific or professional interest: Drug addiction is the main public health problem in developed countries. Drug abuse affects the entire population, and illegal drugs are more prevalent among the younger population, which can cause disability and great morbidity for the suffering of many different diseases, including neuropsychiatric ones, of which we are still far from knowing what influences their cause and development.
Addiction is a chronic, relapsing disease, characterised by loss of control over the use of a substance by the patient. This substance (or behaviour) occupies then a prominent place in the person’s life, affecting not only the normal balance of their vital functions, but the homeostatic role of their behaviors and their environment, through the problems generated by the behaviours that this drug imposes on the person.
The health and social demand in drug addiction is faced by multiple professionals (psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, nurses, etc.) from more generic specialties. However, the complexity of managing drug addicts requires a specialisation with strong multidisciplinary character. For psychology, professional development in the field of drug addiction may encourage future specialisation with various professionals, particularly of health sciences, which will improve the clinic projection and therefore the professional demands of the profession.