Intervention with Victims

Code:

P812

Acronym:

IV

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Psychology

Instance: 2017/2018 - 1S

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	46	Official Curricular Structure	4	-	6	54	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

At the end of the semester students should:

- Know the most important theories, causes, dynamics and consequences of violence and victimization that enable students to understand, assess and intervene with victims (children, youth and adults).

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

- Acquire some knowledge in related domains (e.g., Law, Legal Medicine).

- Acquire the basic knowledge and strategies necessary for the psychological and psychosocial intervention process with victims of violence/crime.

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

Learning outcomes and competences

At the end of the semester students should:

- Know the most important theories and intervention models, in order to develop the basic competencies to understand this problem and assess and intervene with victims (children, youth and adults).

-  Acquired basic intervention skills to operate in various professional contexts, such as victim support organizations, hospitals, health centers, psychological counseling services, police institutions or community projects, justice system, as well as to be able to acquire skills to work in multidisciplinary teams.

- Develop the basic knowledges/competencies to assess and intervene with victims (children, youth and adults) either in emergency / risk / danger situations and crisis intervention or in psychotherapy.

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

Working method

Presencial

Program

- Introduction to Criminology and Victimology.

- Violence, aggression and victimization.

- Criminal violence; primary and secondary criminalization.

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

- Victimization: criminal statistics, victimization surveys, victim profiles.

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

- Dynamics and impact of violence: the specificity of family violence (e.g., intimate partner violence, domestic violence, marital violence, violence against children), child maltreatment (e.g., negligence, physical and psychological maltreatment, sexual abuse), and sexual crimes against adults.

- Assessment methods and psychological and psychosocial intervention with victims of violence and crime (children and adults; individual, couple and group interventions; different strategies, models and programs).

- Victim’s support network.

- Models of restorative justice and mediation.

- Victim – judicial system relationships.

Mandatory literature

Machado, C. (Coord., 2010). ; Vitimologia. Das novas abordagens teóricas às novas práticas de intervenção., Braga: Ed. Psiquilibrios., 2010
Magalhães, T. (Coord.); Abuso de Crianças e Jovens - Da suspeita ao diagnóstico., Lidel, 2010. ISBN: 9789727576555
Manita, C.; Ribeiro, C.; Peixoto, C.; Violência Doméstica: Compreender para intervir. Guia de boas práticas para profissionais de instituições de apoio a vítimas. , Coleção Violência de Género – vol. 2. Lisboa: Comissão para a Cidadania e Igualdade de Género., 2009
Gil, E. ; Helping Abused and Traumatized Children: Integrating Directive and Nondirective Approaches., New York: The Guilford Press, 2006
Finkelman Byrgen ed.; Child abuse. ISBN: ISBN 0-8153-1818-9
Freeman, J. & Lobovits. D. ; Playful Approaches to Serious Problems: Narrative Therapy with Children and their Families., W. W. Norton & Company., 1997
Furniss, T.; The multiprofessional handbook of child sexual abuse: integrated management, therapy and legal intervention., London: Routledge., 1991
Dias, A. R., Manita, C., Gonçalves, R.A., & Machado, C. (2013).; Relações de intimidade juvenis e adultas, uma análise comparativa: Das narrativas de amor às conjugalidades violentas. , Revista Psicologia, 27, 1, 63-89, 2013
Lutzker John R. ed. lit.; Handbook of child abuse research and treatment. ISBN: ISBN 0-306-45659-1
Machado Carla 570; Crianças. ISBN: 972-8747-44-X
Machado Carla 570; Adultos. ISBN: 972-8717-20-2
Magalhães Teresa; Maus tratos em crianças e jovens. ISBN: 972-8717-39-3

Complementary Bibliography

Dias, A. R., Machado, C., Gonçalves, R. A., & Manita, C. (2012). ; Repertórios interpretativos sobre o amor e as relações de intimidade de mulheres vítimas de violência: amar e ser amado violentamente? , Análise Psicológica, 30, 1/2, 143-159., 2011
Matos, M. & Machado, A.; Violência doméstica: Intervenção em grupo com mulheres vítimas. Manual para profissionais., Porto: CIG., 2011
Alarcão Madalena; (Des)Equilíbrios familiares. ISBN: 972-8717-30-X
Matos, M. (2006). ; Violência nas relações de intimidade: estudo sobre a mudança terapêutica na mulher., Braga: Universidade do Minho., 2006
Dobash, R.E. & Dobash, R.P.; Rethinking Violence against Women, London: Sage., 1998
Geffner, R.A., Jaffe, P.G. & Sudermann, M. (Eds); Children Exposed to Domestic Violence., Binghamton, NY: Haworth., 2000
Leventhal, B., & Lundy, S. (Eds.); Same-sex domestic violence: Strategies for Change., Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2000
Madriz Esther; Nothing bad happens to good girls. ISBN: ISBN 0-520-20855-2
Walker Lenore E. Auerbach ed. lit.; Handbook on sexual abuse of children. ISBN: ISBN 0-8261-5300-3
Straus Martha B. ed. lit.; Abuse and victimization across the life span. ISBN: ISBN 0-8018-3637-9
Walker, L.E.A.; The Battered Woman Syndrome, New York: Springer., 2000
Cicchetti Dante ed. lit.; Child maltreatment. ISBN: ISBN 0-521-37969-5
Edleson Jeffrey L. ed. lit.; Future interventions with battered women and their families. ISBN: ISBN 0-8039-5945-1
Sandra Walklate ; Handbook of Victims and Victimology., McGraw-Hill., 2007
Antunes, R. & Machado, C. ; Dupla invisibilidade: A Violência nas Relações Homossexuais., Psychologica, 39, 167-187, 2005

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/victimization and to the intervention with victims.

- Elaboration and discussion of an assignment carried out by the students (group work) that involves the preparation and role-playing of a psychological intervention with victim(s) (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	45,00
Trabalho escrito	5,00
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 is 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 (45%), complemented by a written summary of the case (5%).

Examinations or Special Assignments

In the legally established situations in which students cannot participate in the practical role-play of the victim’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.