Models and Programs for the Intervention with Victims

Year
4
Academic year
2019-2020
Code
02018128
Subject Area
Psychology
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
6.0
Type
Compulsory
Level
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)

No

Syllabus

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