Victim Intervention Programs

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

The classes will be carried out using expository methods, conducting group intervention planning exercise for concrete cases, performing intervention strategies role-play.

Learning Outcomes

Teaching Goals:

- Promote the knowledge and critical understanding about the different contexts of violence and the effects in the victims;

- Promote the acquisition of knowledge on intervention models, strategies and resources, and the development of intervention skills with survivors or in situations of violence.

- Promote the knowledge of different intervention protocols adjusted to specific situations of victimization.

 

Learning outcomes: it is intended that students:

- Be able to develop and apply intervention protocols tailored to specific situations of victimization;

- Identify the potentials and limits of interventions on victims.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

The various types of victimization: intra and extrafamilial violence.

The impact of lifelong victimization.

Crisis intervention with victims of violence: models and guidance guides.

Preparation of security plans.

Individual and group psychoeducational interventions.

Intervention based on Narrative THerapies

Solution Focused Therapies.

Socio-emotional competence development programs (e.g. H. Giarretto).

Specifics of intervention with; a) children victims of sexual violence; b) victims of violence in straight and homosexual relationships; victims of filio-parental violence; elderly victims of abuse / neglect.

Head Lecturer(s)

Isabel Maria Marques Alberto

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Individual work of construction/organization a set of therapeutic resources, with theoretical information and resources (e.g. scaling scales for children) that can be used in a therapeutic session. Each student has to present their work in class. This work has no particular structure (portfolio, book, DVD, etc.): 40.0%
Mini Tests: 60.0%

Bibliography

Blaustein, M. E. (2019).Treating traumatic stress in children/adolescents:how to foster resilience through attachment, self-regulation, and competency. London: Guilford.

Boyd-Franklin, N. (2016).  Therapy in the real world: effective treatments for challenging problems.  London: The Guilford Press.

Brown, S. (2007). Counseling victims of violence: A handbook for helping professionals. Alameda CA: Hunter House.

Casey, T. (2016). Trauma-informed treatment and prevention of intimate partner violence. Washington: AP

Denborough, D. (2014). Retelling the Stories of our Lives: Everyday Narrative Therapy to Draw Inspiration and Transform Experience. New York: W. W. Norton & Co.

Murray, C., & Graves, K. N. (2013). Responding to family violence: a comprehensive, research-based guide for therapists. N. Y.: Routledge.

Turnell, A. & Essex, S. (2006). Working with “Denied” Child Abuse. Berkshire:McGraw-Hill.

Wolhuter, L. (2009). Victimology:victimisation and victims' rights. London: Routledge.