In the event that the health authorities announce a new period of confinement due to the evolution of
the health crisis caused by COVID-19, the teaching staff will promptly communicate how this may effect
the teaching methodologies and activities as well as the assessment.
The subject of Forensic Psychopathology will introduce students to the knowledge of the foundations of the discipline focused on the substrates that relate psychopathology with legal sciences in their criminal, civil and labor fields.
Pre-course requirements
N/A
Objectives
Knowledge of the bases and forms of psychopathological phenomena and their relationship with the capacities of the subject before the legal aspects of the criminal, civil and labor fields.
Competences / Learning outcomes of the degree programme
CE6 - Identificar y evaluar adecuadamente los aspectos forenses significativos en los diferentes síndromes psicopatológicos y desarrollar la argumentación psicopatológica que fundamenta la repercusión jurídica de los diferentes síntomas y cuadros clínicos.
CG1 - Describir, identificar, reconocer y clasificar los conceptos de la psicopatología aplicada al ámbito forense y responder sobre qué, quién, cómo, cuándo, dónde y porqué del caso objeto de estudio en el ámbito forense.
CT1 - Adecuar el lenguaje y la forma de comunicar, en forma oral o por escrito, a los conocimientos científico-técnicos psicopatológico-forenses y/o jurídicos en relación con aspectos psicopatológicos en el ámbito jurídico.
CT2 - Evaluar e interpretar documentos con relevancia jurídico-penal relativos a aspectos psicopatológicos (sentencias, autos, informes médico-forenses y periciales).
CT3 - Aplicar las categorías jurídicas abstractas a casos concretos, de forma que se relacionen adecuadamente los conocimientos científico-técnicos y jurídicos en la materia.
Learning outcomes of the subject
The students will identify, evaluate and adequately argue the legally relevant psychopathological aspects.
Syllabus
The subject of Forensic Psychopathology will deal with the legal repercussions from the expert's point of view of the main psychopathological syndromes.
Topic 1: Introduction to Forensic Psychopathology
Topic 2: Delictogenesis and other forensic aspects of affective disorders
Topic 3: Psychopathology of criminal sexual disorders
Topic 4: Forensic aspects of personality disorders
Topic 5: Forensic aspects of cognitive disorders
Topic 6: Psychotic disorders and violence
Topic 7: Forensic aspects of substance-related disorders.
Topic 8: Forensic aspects of the Adaptive, Anxiety, Factitious, Dissociative Disorders.
Teaching and learning activities
Evaluation systems and criteria
Bibliography and resources
The Chapter is recommended as a basic text sobre Psiquiatría Jurídica y Forense del Dr. Ortega-Monasterio y la Dra. Gómez-Durán (8a ed. del Tratado Introducción a la Psicopatología y la Psiquiatría -7ª ed. disponible a la biblioteca de la UIC).
Students will have the presentations used in class and, if appropriate, scientific articles and selected texts, recommended by teachers.