Domestic Violence and Abuse
Keywords |
Classification |
Keyword |
OFICIAL |
Forensic Sciences |
Instance: 2019/2020 - SP (of 09-09-2019 to 31-07-2020)
Cycles of Study/Courses
Acronym |
No. of Students |
Study Plan |
Curricular Years |
Credits UCN |
Credits ECTS |
Contact hours |
Total Time |
MCF |
16 |
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
- Legal concepts of Domestic Violence and Maltreatment. Definition of abuse
- The historical and social evolution of the abuse cases. Epidemiological aspects
- Victims and abusers
- Types of abuse, risk factors and indicators (psychological and physical), and other evidence, taking into account the type of victims
- From detection to report
- The forensic medical diagnosis: medico-legal examination in live and death persons (including sexual exam), forensic psychology evaluation and ancillary exams
- Forensic interview
- The judicial intervention
Mandatory literature
Magalhães, T; Violencia e abuso. Respostas simples para questões complexas, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2010
Magalhães, T; Abuso de Crianças e Jovens. Da suspeita ao diagnóstico, Lidel, 2010
Complementary Bibliography
Gonçalves, RA, Machado, C; Psicologia Forense, Quarteto, 2005
Teaching methods and learning activities
20 hour of seminars and 20 hours of practical sessions based in cases to be analysed and discussed.
Evaluation Type
Evaluation with final exam
Assessment Components
Designation |
Weight (%) |
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico |
100,00 |
Total: |
100,00 |
Amount of time allocated to each course unit
Designation |
Time (hours) |
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico |
42,00 |
Estudo autónomo |
80,00 |
Frequência das aulas |
40,00 |
Total: |
162,00 |
Eligibility for exams
Written assignment
Calculation formula of final grade
Written assignment is 100%