Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2500257 Criminology | OT | 4 | 0 |
There is no previous requirements
This subject belongs to fourth year curriculum of the Criminology Degree program, in the specialization of sentencing enforcement. It aims to give students an overview of major mental disorders, as well as their relation to the comission of crimes. Additionally, aspects related to the management and protocols of such offenders are considered from the perspective of forensic psychiatry.
At the end of this course students will:
• Know and be able to differentiate the most important psychiatric disorders and their relation to criminal matters
• Demonstrate a basic theoretical basis of forensic psychiatry
• Have the ability to act competently in the field of psychiatry
• Correctly interpret different types of clinical and forensic psychiatric documents
Introduction
This course comprises 6 credits of the ECTS model. Each of these credits includes 25 hours of teaching, which makes a total of 150 hours, distributed as follows:
− 13 classroom sessions (mixed methodology, both face-to-face and virtual), 3 hours each: 39 hours (19,5 theory and 19,5, seminars)
− Hours of external student work: 106 hours
- Tutorships: 5 hour
In-Class sessions: 13
The sessions will be held during the first quarter of the 2021-22 course (beginning on September 17, 2021 and ending on January 14, 2022). They will be held on Fridays, from 12:00pm to 3:15pm (12.00-15.15) and will include a half hour break. Within the concentration, this class is the first part of theoretical exposition and the second part of the practical seminar.
Program
1. September 17, 2021
Forensic Psychiatry I: Introduction, general concepts.
Dr. Francisco Collazos
2. October 1, 2021
Forensic Psychiatry II: The psychological expertise
Dr. Francisco Collazos
3. October 8, 2021
History of Psychiatry
General Psychopathology and Psychopathological Exploration
Dr. Amanda Rodríguez
4. October 15, 2021
Psychological evaluation: cognitive, emotional, behavioral, personality
Dr. Raquel Vidal
In the second module of classes those psychiatric disorders with a greater legal repercussion are addressed. A clinical approach is carried out in the first part of these face-to-face classes and then, taking advantage of the seminars, a psychiatric-legal one for each of them.
5. October 22, 2021
Substance-related disorders
Dra. Lara Grau
6. October 29, 2021
Paraphilias.
Dr. JoséAntonio Navarro
7. November 5, 2021
Psychotic disorders.
Dr. Gemma Parramón
8. November 12, 2021
Organic mental disorders and dementias. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in the Adult.
Dr. Josep Antoni Ramos-Quiroga
9. November 19, 2021
Personality disorders.
Dr. Marc Ferrer
10. November 26, 2021
Suicidal behavior.
The simulation
Dr. Francisco Collazos
11. December 3, 2021
Affective Disorders and Anxiety Disorders.
Dr. Pilar Lusilla
12. December 10, 2021
Autism Spectrum Disorders. Victimology
Dr. Laura Gisbert
13. December 17, 2021
Psychopathology and Delictogenesis in Minors
Dr. Josep Salavert
Methodology of the course
Throughout the course the theoretical part will be developed in the first part of each of the classroom classes. These classes are distributed in three modules. The first establishes the theoretical bases on which the subject is based. The bulk of the subject is developed in the second module, which alternates the eminently clinical classes, where the main psychiatric disorders with legal and forensic implications are presented, with those sessions in which the relationship between these disorders and the commission of crimes.
The seminars are reserved to clarify, from a more practical perspective those aspects that allow a better understanding of the subject. In these seminars we will try to illustrate, with practical examples, the theoretical content of the classroom classes. The seminars will be held in the second part of the classroom classes. In addition, in these teaching spaces, students should make presentations with a practical focus on the topics that have been developed in the theoretical part and that should have expanded with work outside the classroom.
External activities of the student
To reach the competences of the subject, students must complete 106 hours of external work:
- Preparation of the classroom classes (6 hours of study for each of the 13 classroom classes): 78 hours.
- Elaboration of a writing work based on any of the topics of the subject and its oral presentation in the seminars: 18 hours.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Lectures | 19.5 | 0.78 | 2, 4, 5 |
Seminars | 19.5 | 0.78 | 4, 1, 7 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Assessment | 5 | 0.2 | 2, 4, 3, 1, 6, 7, 5 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Elaboration of a paper about some of the subjects of the subject and an oral presentation in the seminars: | 20 | 0.8 | 2, 4, 3, 1, 6, 5 |
Preparation for the classroom sessions (6 hours of study for each of the 13 face-to-face sessions) | 78 | 3.12 | 2, 4, 6, 5 |
Preparation of a bibliographic search of the current status of any of the topics that have been dealt with in the course | 8 | 0.32 | 2, 4, 3, 1, 7, 5 |
System of evaluation
A system of continuous evaluation is established in which the following aspects will be evaluated:
Requirements for evaluation
Items of evaluation
a) Classroom attendance (25% of the total grade)
b) Execution of works (25% of the total of the qualification)
c) Examination (50% of the total of the qualification)
Resit
Students will have the opportunity to repeat exercises or exams in case of a fail mark.
Fraudulent conduct
Cheating in the exam will conduct to a fail mark (0), losing the right of reassessment. Plagiarism in essays will conduct to a fail mark (0). Most serious cases will conduct to a fail mark (0), losing the right of reassessment.
Grade dissertation
Professors of the subject will offer the possibility of performing two dissertations. One of them will be a research project and the other a work of practical intervention.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Attendance and participation | 15 | 0 | 0 | 2, 4, 3, 1, 6, 7, 5 |
Essay | 25 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Exam | 50 | 0 | 0 | 2, 4, 1, 6, 7, 5 |
seminars key questions | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Mandatory readings
Each theory class will be accompanied by a Power Point presentation the contents of which can be considered to the reference text and provide the basis for the knowledge necessary and sufficient to pass the exam. Its reading is, therefore, obligatory.
Reccomended biblliography
Attached is a list of recommended readings. It is strongly advised to read them to complement the theoretical content of the classroom sessions. All texts cited are available to students in the Psychiatry Service of the Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron (Dr. Collazos, Servicio de Psiquiatría. Escuela de Enfermería 5a planta, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron).
The course does not use any specific computer program