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The Faculty of Law, with the UIC Barcelona Official University Master's in Legal, Forensic and Criminological Psychopathology, is organising the fifth edition of the Conference on Forensic Psychopathology.

This year’s conference, titled “Forensic Evaluation in family procedures: A Multidisciplinary Perspective,” aims to address a topic of special significance in the field of forensic psychopathology: expert evidence in the family setting.

PROGRAMME

• 9.30 a.m. Conference introduction. Dr Esperanza Gómez-Durán, director of the University Master's Degree in Legal, Forensic and Criminological Psychopathology.
   

9.45 to 11.30 a.m. - Round table 1: Psychological assessment in family procedures. Moderated by: Dr Aina M. Gassó Moser.

• Assessment of filters (gatekeeping) and parental interference. 

Mercé Cartié

• Forensic evaluation of minors in family procedures.

Dr Gabriel Martí

• Forensic assessment in Comprehensive Forensic Assessment Units (UVFI).

Laia Navas

• Round table discussion: Difficulties professionals face in forensic assessment in family procedures.

Coffee break 

12.00 to 1.30 p.m. - Round table 2: Legal assessment in family procedures. Moderated by: Dr Esperanza Gómez-Durán

• Psychological expert evidence in family procedures: assessment, utility and judicial needs. 

Magistrate specialising in family law

• The role of the prosecutor in family procedures: challenges and difficulties. 

Prosecutor specialising in family law

• Assessment of psychological expert evidence in family procedures.

Susanna Antequera

• Round table discussion: Cahllenges and difficulties of the legal assessment of psychological assessment of expert evidence in family procedures

1.45 to 2.00 p.m. Closing remarks. Dr Leopoldo Ortega-Monasterio, honorary director of Official University Master's in Legal, Forensic and Criminological Psychopathology