Domestic Violence and Abuse

Code:

MCF13_8

Acronym:

MCF13_8

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Forensic Sciences

Instance: 2023/2024 - SP

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Public Health and Forensic Sciences, and Medical Education Department
Course/CS Responsible:	Forensic Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MCF	24	Current Studies Plan	1	-	6	40	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Provide professionals who currently work or may work with victims of abuse, with the knowledge and the skills to identify suspected cases, promote their correct and timely diagnosis, and properly assist the victims, taking into account their need for protection, treatment and rehabilitation, not forgetting the issues related to secondary victimization and the required criminal investigation.

Learning outcomes and competences

The unit’s contents, while not comprehensively addressing all of the complexity and magnitude of the problems inherent to domestic violence and abuse, address the main key points in order to create a broad understanding of the topic, while allowing students to develop capabilities to deepen their knowledge according to their intervening area. The contents were developed to raise the students’ sensitivity and critical judgment, thus promoting their problem solving ability, since each case is unique.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Legal concepts of Domestic Violence and Maltreatment. Definition of abuse


2. The historical and social evolution of the abuse cases. Epidemiological aspects


3. Victims and abusers


4. Types of abuse, risk factors and indicators (psychological and physical), and other evidence, taking into account the type of victims


5. From detection to report


6. The forensic medical diagnosis: medico-legal examination in live and death persons (including sexual exam), forensic psychology evaluation and ancillary exams


7. Forensic interview

8. The judicial intervention

Mandatory literature

Giardino AP, Datner EM, Asher; JB: Sexual Assault. Victimization across the life span. A clinical guide.GW Medical Publishing, Inc.

Teaching methods and learning activities

This unit wishes to deliver specialized knowledge and skills about bodily harm evaluation and reparation, thus, the lecture structures complemented with case work experience seems to be the most adequate.

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	100,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	122,00
Frequência das aulas	40,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Obtaining a minimum grade of 9.5 values ​​and presence of at least 75% of the contact hours.

Calculation formula of final grade

100% = test score/written assignment.