Models and Programs for the Intervention with Victims
4
2019-2020
02018128
Psychology
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
6.0
Compulsory
2nd Cycle Studies - Mestrado
Recommended Prerequisites
This course unit does not demand any prerequisites, either at competency or knowledge level
Teaching Methods
Classes will include expositive methods, planification of an intervention program over a concrete case, role-play of intervention strategies.
Learning Outcomes
General Goal:
-To promote the assessment of knowledge and the development of intervention skills with individuals who have experienced victimization.
Specific Goals:
-To know the several contexts of victimization and the impacts of that victimization;
-To know the intervention models, approaches and programs with the different types of victims;
-To develop the competencies needed for the intervention with victims of violence.
Theoretical Competencies, the students should:
- Know the different intervention models, approaches and programs with the victims;
-Be able to identify intervention protocols adjusted to the specific situations of victimization.
Practical Competencies, Students should:
-Be able to create / elaborate/ design intervention protocols adjusted to specific situations of victimization;
- Identify the potential, the difficulties and the limits of the different interventions in specific victimization situations.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
The different types of victimization: intra and extra familial.
Theoretical revision of the impact and consequences of victimization across life span.
Crisis Intervention: Models and guidelines
Safety Plans for victims.
Intervention with children victims of abuse and parental negligence: programs based on Narrative Models of re-authorship (e.g. M. White); programs of development of social and emotional skills (e.g. H. Giarretto).
Intervention with victims in residential care: life story book (according to Abels-Eber’ proposal).
Intervention Programs with victims of violence in intimate relationships.
Intervention with victims of child to parent violence.
Intervention Programs with elderly victims of abuse/ negligence.
Head Lecturer(s)
Isabel Maria Marques Alberto
Assessment Methods
Assessment
An individual work of organization of a therapeutic toolkit, a set of therapeutic resources, with theoretical information (e.g. exception questioning) and practical resources (e.g. scales for children) that can be used in a therapeutic session. Each student must present their work in class. This work hasn't got a particular structure (portfolio, book, CD, etc.): 25.0%
Elaboration, in group, of a plan of intervention from a clinical vignette, with establishment of objectives, strategies and resources; justification of the established plan: 25.0%
Mini Tests: 50.0%
Bibliography
Abels- Eber, C. (2000). Enfants places et construction d’historicité. Paris: Ed. L’Harmattan.
Alberto, I.M. (2007). A Intervenção em crise com crianças vítimas de maltrato infantil. In. L.Sales (Coord.). Psiquiatria de Catástrofe (pp. 375-381). Coimbra: Almedina.
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.
Denborough, D. (2014). Retelling the Stories of our Lives: Everyday Narrative Therapy to Draw Inspiration and Transform Experience. New York: W. W. Norton & Co.
Giarretto, H. (1982). Integrated treatment of child sexual abuse. Palo Alto: Science & Behavior Books.
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