Universitat Internacional de Catalunya

Psicopatología Forense en el Ámbito Civil-Familia y Canónico

Psicopatología Forense en el Ámbito Civil-Familia y Canónico
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Main language of instruction: Spanish

Other languages of instruction: Catalan

Teaching staff


Dra. GÓMEZ DURÁN, Esperanza Luisa - elgomez@uic.es

Introduction

The course Psychopathology in Civil and Family Law aims to achieve with its program and through practical activities and workshops that the students of the Master in Legal, Forensic and Criminological Psychopathology reach the theoretical and practical knowledge to effectively develop an expert activity in the forums of Civil and Family Law, as in Criminal Law the concept of guilt is on which pivot all the expertise of professionals practicing in the Criminal Forum, in the field of Civil and Family Law all expertise revolves around the ability to act.


The concepts of legal capacity versus civil capacity in guardianship proceedings, inheritance, obligation, separation, divorce, guardianship and custody are approached in an interdisciplinary way.


Objectives

GENERAL

  1. To provide students with an academic profile through the acquisition of a body of conceptual, procedural, technical and “attitudinal” knowledge that will allow professionals to develop in the civil and family area.


  1. To acquire and/or consolidate general and specific competencies for the practice of forensic professional activity in the family and civil area.


  1. To contribute to the development of a research profile that allows the creation of knowledge in family evaluation, in its different aspects and processes.


SPECIFIC


  1. To contribute to the quality of the evaluation of the family in crisis through the consolidation of attitudes, values and professional habits related to good practices.


  1. To provide applied, advanced and specialized training that allows acting as expert witness and expert before civil courts and tribunals.


  1. To train to plan and carry out evaluations and actions in the forensic family field.

Learning outcomes of the subject

  • The graduate will be able to elaborate/interpret forensic expert reports in the Civil, Family, Criminal, Social, Labor, Contentious-Administrative and Canonical fields. The graduate will be able to perform the defense and interrogation of the forensic psychopathological expert report in the act of Oral Trial in front of the courtroom in the competent courts.

  • The graduate will be able to communicate in an understandable way, orally or in writing, the scientific-technical psychopathological-forensic and/or legal knowledge in relation to psychopathological aspects in the legal field.

  • The graduate will be able to examine documents with legal-criminal relevance related to psychopathological aspects (judgments, orders, forensic-medical and expert reports).

  • The graduate will be able to apply the abstract legal categories to concrete cases, in such a way that scientific-technical and legal knowledge in the field is adequately related.

  • The graduate will be able to apply acquired knowledge to problem solving in new or unfamiliar environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to his or her area of study

  • The graduate will be able to integrate knowledge related to the formulation of judgments based on (possibly incomplete or limited) information including reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities associated with the application of their knowledge and judgments

  • The graduate will be able to detail the concepts of psychopathology applied to the forensic and judicial field. The graduate will be able to evaluate the case study through the use of psychopathological concepts considering the what, how, when, where and why of the case studies.

Teaching and learning activities

In person



  • Lectures with Power Point technical support.

  • Study of Expert Reports

  • Different expert reports in the civil field (Directed Study of Cases) will be carried out based on the documentation provided by different professionals.

  • Role playing will be carried out in family related topics and a report and its defense will be elaborated.

Evaluation systems and criteria

In person



  1. Class attendance. A minimum of 80% of attendance to the classroom sessions will be required in order to be evaluated and satisfactorily pass the course. With an overall average of class attendance lower than 80% but higher than 60%, the coordinating teacher of the course may require the student, as a requirement to be evaluated, the completion of some additional work or practice of proficiency. In any case, with an average class attendance lower than 60%, no student may be evaluated and the course will be considered as not passed, having to go to the second call.

  2. Continuous evaluation. The evaluation of the external practices (Directed Case Studies) and of the eventual works and practices of the course will represent 30% of the final grade of the course.

  3. Final work or exam of the course. It will consist of an exercise-exam divided in two parts and will represent 70% of the final grade of the course.

  4. The first part (with a value of 40% of the final grade) will consist of a practical case of which the student will be asked to analyze according to the contents worked in the course. Likewise, the student will be asked to reason an intervention design based on the available data.

  5. The second part (with a value of 30% of the final grade), will be a multiple-choice test on the different topics covered throughout the module.

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