Intervention with Victims

Code:

P812

Acronym:

IV

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Psychology

Instance: 2020/2021 - 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	35	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.

- Victim – judicial system relationships. Models of restorative justice and mediation.

Mandatory literature

Machado, C. (Coord., 2010). ; Vitimologia. Das novas abordagens teóricas às novas práticas de intervenção., Braga: Ed. Psiquilibrios., 2010
Matos, M. ; Vítimas de crime e violência. Práticas de Intervenção., Braga: Psiquilibrios., 2014
Sani, A. & Caridade, S. (Eds).; Violência, Agressão e Vitimação: Práticas Para a Intervenção. , Lisboa: Almedina., 2018
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
Sani, A. & Caridade, S. (Eds). ; Práticas de Intervenção na Violência e no Crime. , Lisboa: Pactor., 2016
Gil, E. ; Helping Abused and Traumatized Children: Integrating Directive and Nondirective Approaches., New York: The Guilford Press, 2006
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
Geffner, R.A., Jaffe, P.G. & Sudermann, M. (Eds); Children Exposed to Domestic Violence., Binghamton, NY: Haworth., 2000
Baker, N., Buick, J., Kim, S., Moniz, S., & Nava, L.; Lessons from examining same-sex intimate partner violence., Sex Roles, 69, 182-192. , 2013
Leventhal, B., & Lundy, S. (Eds.); Same-sex domestic violence: Strategies for Change., Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2000
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
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
Freeman, J. & Lobovits. D. ; Playful Approaches to Serious Problems: Narrative Therapy with Children and their Families., W. W. Norton & Company., 1997
Finkelman Byrgen ed.; Child abuse. ISBN: ISBN 0-8153-1818-9
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

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.

- Development of a practical work by the students, in small groups, which involves the description of a victimization / victim’s case and the characterization and application of an evaluation and intervention proposal for that case. This type of work requires analysis of theoretical contents and, above all, critical reflection on knowledge and practices, in addition to an exercise of practical application of the knowledge and skills acquired.

- 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 without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Trabalho de campo	40,00
Trabalho escrito	25,00
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	30,00
Participação presencial	5,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	30,00
Frequência das aulas	42,00
Trabalho de campo	60,00
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	30,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

- Students’ attendance in each class will be monitored. 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.


 

Calculation formula of final grade

Final grade expressed on a scale of 0 to 20.

- 65% of the final grade in the UC results from the evaluation of the practical assignment carried out by the students, in small groups: an assignment in which students  have to plan and describe an intervention with a victim or group of victims of crime / violence (including the case design, the victim assessment and intervention steps and strategies, justifying the options taken). Under normal circumstances, this work would be presented as a role-playing of the intervention. Given the limitations imposed by the covid-19 pandemic, the work will be presented in a written format (students can find a document with a more detailed description of each component and evaluation criteria at Sigarra / Moodle) -- includes the evaluation components: "Field work" (40%) + "Written work" (25%).

- 30% of the final grade in the UC results from a written work, carried out individually, in which the student will describe and present the theoretical framework of one of the modalities, programs or intervention strategies used with victims -- evaluation component "Presentation / discussion of a scientific work".

- 5% of the final grade in the UC results from the presence and participation in classes throughout the semester. Corresponds to the evaluation component "Face-to-face classes participation" (which, given the current limitations imposed by the covid-19 pandemic, includes participation in face-to-face classes and also in online classes).

Examinations or Special Assignments

In the legally provided situations, in which students cannot carry out the same assessment assignments that their colleagues will present, the student must negotiate with the responsible teacher the delivery of an alternative work, with the same objectives and an equivalent content.

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 and the theoretical components.

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 reformulating the individual written work, once, until the “época de recurso” of the following school year in which the student obtained the approval. There is no possibility of repeating the practical component.

Observations

Considering the recommendations for maintaining in person activities at the University, but facing the impossibility of guaranteeing the maintenance of all the teaching activities of the first semester of 2020/2021, in the current pandemic context, due to the lack of physical facilities capable of  accommodating, with security, the high number of students integrating this cycle of studies, the theoretical component of this course will be non-presential, teached through online / telematic means.