Intervention with Perpetrators

Code:

P712

Acronym:

IA

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Psychology

Instance: 2016/2017 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Psychology
Course/CS Responsible:	Integrated Master Psychology

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIPSI	31	Official Curricular Structure	4	-	6	54	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

At the end of the semester students should be able to:

- To know the most important theories, causes, dynamics and consequences of violence and victimization, that enable them to understand, assess and intervene with perpetrators (youth and adults) at psychoeducational, psychosocial and psychotherapeutical levels.

- Understand the specific dynamics of violence, particularly of intrafamilial violence.

- Acquire knowledge and understanding in related domains (e.g., Law, Criminology, Legal Medicine).

- Acquire the knowledge and strategies necessary for the psychological and psychosocial intervention with perpetrators of physical, psychological and sexual violence. To be able to apply them in cases of violence inside and outside the family.

- Understand the interactions and relationships between the intervention with offenders and the intervention with victims.

Learning outcomes and competences

At the end of the semester students should:

- Know the most important theories and intervention models that enable them to understand, assess and intervene with offenders/perpetrators (youth and adults) at psychoeducational, psychosocial and psychotherapeutical levels.

- Develop basic skills for intervention in different contexts, such as prisons, juvenile reeducation facilities, police, judiciary services, counseling services, and community projects; as well as the competencies to work in multidisciplinary teams.

- Develop the skills necessary to elaborate forensic psychological reports and testify in court.

Working method

Presencial

Program

- Violence, aggression and victimization.

- Main psychological, psychosocial and criminological theories explaining violence and aggression.

- Types of violence, crime and victimization; contexts and forms of victimization.

- Gender violence. Intimate partner violence, domestic violence, marital violence and family violence.

- Child maltreatment (e.g., negligence, physical and psychological maltreatment, sexual abuse).

- Sexual crimes – rape and child sexual abuse. Child sexual abuse vs pedophilia.

- Assessment methods and psychological, psychoeducational and psychosocial intervention with perpetrators of violence and crime (youth and adults) – national and international perspectives.

- Specificities of the intervention with perpetrators of domestic/marital violence.

- Specificities of the intervention with perpetrators of sexual violence.

- Specificities of the intervention with young sexual offenders.

- Punishment, psychotherapy and social rehabilitation.

Mandatory literature

Geffner, R.A & Rosenbaum, A. (Eds.); Domestic Violence Offenders. Current Interventions, Research, and Implications for Policies and Standards, New York: The Haworth Press., 2001
Berry, D.B.; The Domestic Violence Sourcebook., Los Angeles: Lowell House (3ª Edição), 2000
Lee, M.Y; Sebold, J. & Uken, A.; Solution-focused treatment of domestic violence offenders, New York: Oxford University Press, 2003
Furniss, T. ; The Multiprofessional Handbook of Child Sexual Abuse: Integrated Management, Therapy and Legal Intervention., London: Routledge., 1991
Paymar, M.; Violent No More. Helping Men End Domestic Violence, Alameda: Hunter House., 2000
Barroso, R., Leite, A., Manita, C. & Nobre, P.; ). Between public agenda and the emergence of intervention programmes: sexual offenders within the Portuguese context. , Sexual Offender Treatment, Volume 6, Issue 2., 2011
Budrionis Rita; The^sexual abuse victim and sexual offender treatment planner. ISBN: 0-471-21979-7
Wolfe David A.; Child abuse. ISBN: ISBN 0-8039-2833-5
L. A. Craig, L. Dixon, & T. A. Gannon (Eds.) ; What works in offender rehabilitation: An evidence-based approach to assessment and treatment. , New York: Wiley., 2013
Marshall, W. L., Marshall, L. E., G. A. Serran, & Fernandez, Y. M. ; Treating sexual offenders: An integrated approach., New York, NY: Taylor & Francis., 2006
Barbaree, H. & Marshall, W. ; The juvenile sex offender. , New York: Guildford Press (second edition)., 2008

Complementary Bibliography

Cicchetti Dante ed. lit.; Child maltreatment. ISBN: ISBN 0-521-37969-5
Briggs David; Managing men who sexuality abuse. ISBN: 1-85302-807-X
Wiehe Vernon R.; Understanding family violence. ISBN: ISBN 0-7619-1645-8
Manita, Celina; A intervenção em agressores no contexto da violência doméstica em Portugal : estudo preliminar de caracterização, Lisboa : Comissão para a Igualdade e para os Direitos das Mulheres, 2005. ISBN: 972-597-269-4
Hersov L.A.; Aggression and anti-social behaviour in childhood and adolescence. ISBN: ISBN 0-08-021810-5
Salter, Anna C; Treating child sex offenders and victims : a practical guide., London : Sage Publications, 1988. ISBN: 0-8039-3182-4
Bloomquist Michael L.; Helping children with aggression and conduct problems. ISBN: 1-57230-748-X
Salter, A.C.; Pedofilia e outras agressões sexuais, Lisboa: Ed. Presença, 2003
Lee-Chai Annette Y.; The use and abuse of power. ISBN: ISBN 1-84169-023-6
Hasselt Vincent B. Van ed. lit.; Handbook of family violence. ISBN: ISBN 0-306-42648-X
Finkelman Byrgen ed.; Child abuse. ISBN: ISBN 0-8153-1818-9

Teaching methods and learning activities

- Theoretical classes.

- Theoretical-practical classes with active participation of students, individually and in groups;

- Practical case-studies.

- Viewing and discussion of videos with topics related to violence and to the intervention with perpetrators.

- Elaboration and discussion of an assignment carried out by the students that involves the preparation and role-play of an intervention with a perpetrator (including assessment and intervention strategies). This project requires bibliographic analysis and critical reflection on knowledge and practices.

- Tutorial supervision of theoretical and practical assignments carried out by students, as well as providing the necessary conditions to develop independent study/work, including research and literature search, in order to facilitate the assimilation of contents.

keywords

Social sciences > Criminology
Social sciences > Psychological sciences > Psychology

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Exame	50,00
Trabalho de campo	40,00
Trabalho escrito	10,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	48,00
Frequência das aulas	54,00
Trabalho de campo	60,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

- Students’ attendance in each class will be monitored through the students’ signature on a presence sheet. Students must attend 75% of the total number of classes taught. In exceptional cases, legally foreseen, the traditional class attendance may be substituted by the submission of a research assignment.

- In accordance with the regulation of evaluation, students must have a minimum grade of 10 points to obtain final approval (none of the assessment components can sum less than 8 points). The failure to achieve the minimum score of 10 points implies non approval in the discipline and the obligation to repeat the evaluation.

- In the case of non-submission of the practical work by the deadline established at the beginning of the semester, the student will not be admitted to the final exam and, therefore, cannot obtain final approval in the discipline.

Calculation formula of final grade

Final grade based on a 0-20 scale:

- 50% of the grade is based on the final exam classification.

- The other 50% of the grade are based on the practical assignment carried out by the students, in small groups, throughout the semester: a role-play of a psychological intervention with a victim of crime/violence (including the design of the case, the assessment of the victim and the intervention plan for the case). At the end of the semester there will be a public presentation/role-play of the intervention in small groups (40%), complemented by a written summary of the case (10%).

Examinations or Special Assignments

In the legally established situations in which students cannot participate in the practical role-play of the perpetrator's intervention plan, they must present a written description of a practical case created by them or presented by the teacher, along with a proposal of assessment and psychological intervention for this case. Similarly, in the legally established situations when the students cannot complete the written exam, it must be replaced with a written assignment on a subject established with the teacher early in the semester.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

In exceptional cases, foreseen in the regulations or in cases duly justified and accepted as valid by the School’s competent committees, students may be evaluated outside the usual context and regular calendar, through the completion of a written project with a content similar to what other students have done to assess the practical component (weighing 50% in the final grade) and an oral or written test on the contents of the discipline (weighing 50% in the final grade).

In these cases, the student should contact the teacher responsible for the discipline at the beginning of the semester to define the rules and methodologies of the alternative evaluation.

Classification improvement

There is a possibility of repeating the final written examination (50% weighting), once, until the “época de recurso” of the following school year in which the student obtained the approval. There is no place to repeat the evaluation of the practical component.