Forensic Psychological Assessment
Avaliação Psicológica Forense
Curse code:9219315
Cristina Branca Bento De Matos Soeiro Correia Teles / Jorge Manuel Dos Santos Cardoso
Learning outcomes of the curricular unit:
- Provide the conceptual bases that allow understanding the psychological processes involved in mental functioning and human behaviour.
- Understand the major disorders associated with the psychological processes.
- Recognize and understand the interaction between the psychological processes and their relevance in the assessment of criminal behavior.
- Characterize the Criminal and Forensic Psychology as a field of study applied to the characterization and analysis of the complexity of criminal behavior, identifying the actors of this process: the victim, the context and the offender.
- Identify the key explanatory variables of criminal behavior and to recognize the importance of integrative perspectives.
- Understanding how the knowledge and methodologies of Criminal and Forensic Psychology can be applied to the assessment / intervention with offenders and victims.
- Analyze the concepts, challenges and problems that forensic psychologists face in carrying out their duties.
- Analyze the collaboration between psychologists and specialists of other areas of the Justice System, including professionals from other areas of the criminal sciences, social and human.
Syllabus:
- The biological basis and psychological processes of human behaviour.
- Consciousness.
- Sensory processes and perception.
- Attention and memory.
- Cognition and learning.
- Motivation - homeostasis and control systems; factors and theories of human motivation.
- The psychological processes and the criminal behaviour.
- The criminal behaviour and areas of application of Forensic Psychology.
- The forensic psychological assessment and judgment.
- Application Areas of Forensic Psychological Assessment.
- Technical advice to the courts (e.g. psychological skills).
- The expert report.
Suggested Bibliography:
- Bull R, Cooke C, Hatcher R, Woodhams J, Bilby C & Grant T (2006) Criminal Psychology, Oxford: Oneworld
- Eysenck M (2009) Fundamentals of psychology, 3rd ed., East Sussex: Psychology Press. ISBN: 9781841693712
- Fonseca AC, Simões MR, Simões MCT & Pinho MS (2006) Psicologia Forense, Coimbra: Almedina
- Gleitman H, Fridlund A & Reisberg D (2011) Psicologia, 9th ed., Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. ISBN: 9789723113709
- Gonçalves R & Machado C (2005) Psicologia Forense, Coimbra: Quarteto
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