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Forensic Psychiatry
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:7.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:29:43
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | JF_283 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 1.00 | ECTS: | 1.50 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine; Psychiatry | Target Audience: | Person and Property Defence | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Ļubova Renemane | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 6 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 12 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 2 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 4 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 16 | ||||||||
| Part-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 2 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 4 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 1 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 2 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 6 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | • anatomy (structure, function and synaptic structure of central nervous system); • psychology, developmental and medical psychology (phases of crisis reaction, psychological defence mechanisms, structure of personality); • medical ethic; • public health (risk factors, kinds of prophylaxis, health promotion); • basic principles of clinical care. | ||||||||
| Objective: | Raise awareness about major psychiatric illness causes, main characteristics, prevention, possibilities of assistance for individual and society level and the practical significance in forensic psychiatry. To provide knowledge about possibilities of forensic psychiatry in detecting criminal offenses, determination of legal capacity, provision of assistance against the patient's will and promotion of practical skills in using these opportunities in the framework of criminal proceedings and civil proceedings. Tasks: 1. To promote students’ understanding and skills in recognising mental disorders; 2. To promote students’ understanding and ability in dealing with a person with a mental disorder; 3. To promote students' understanding of the procedure for determining forensic psychiatric expertise, peculiarities and issues to be solved in criminal and civil cases. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Branch of forensic psychiatry, its historical aspects and philosophical basis. General psychopathology. Classification of mental disorders from the forensic psychiatry aspect. psichiatric care against the patient's will. Legal basis for forensic psychiatry, rights, obligations and liability of a forensic psychiatrist. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Types of forensic psychiatric examinations, their justification, opinion and its assessment. Forensic psychiatric examinations in criminal proceedings. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 3 | Forensic psychiatric examination of victims and witnesses, including juvenile and preteen examination. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Complex forensic psychiatric examinations. Legal capacity. Simulation and dissimulation, their types and diagnosis. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Topic Layout (Part-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Branch of forensic psychiatry, its historical aspects and philosophical basis. General psychopathology. Classification of mental disorders from the forensic psychiatry aspect. psichiatric care against the patient's will. Legal basis for forensic psychiatry, rights, obligations and liability of a forensic psychiatrist. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Types of forensic psychiatric examinations, their justification, opinion and its assessment. Forensic psychiatric examinations in criminal proceedings. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 3 | Forensic psychiatric examination of victims and witnesses, including juvenile and preteen examination. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Complex forensic psychiatric examinations. Legal capacity. Simulation and dissimulation, their types and diagnosis. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Written assignments, analysis of literature, consultations. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Successfully passed tests (MCQ), practical work, and participation in seminars. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Test | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | Test | ||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Students have basic knowledge of forensic psychiatry; has knowledge about general psychopathology, has mastered various forms of manifestation of mental disorders; students can define how to provide psychiatric care against the patient's will; can define legal and medical criteria for incontinence; students can describe the types of forensic psychiatric expertise and bases of legal capacity and able to list the types of simulation and disimulation of mental disorders. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Ability to independently recognise the signs of a mental disorder; ability to deal with a person having a mental disorder; ability to determine forensic psychiatric examination in order to conduct a thorough investigation; the ability to formulate questions to the expert according to the chosen expertise; the skill to prepare criminal case materials for sending to the forensic psychiatric expertise. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Is able to determine the type of forensic psychiatric examination taking into account the questions of differents types of expertise; is able to choose the place of forensic psychiatric examination; is able to prepare criminal case materials for referral for expertise using knowledge of psychiatric disorders, addiction criteria and simulation and disimulation types; can analyse the psychiatric assessment fixed in the expert opinion in order to fully conduct the investigation. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | 21.04.2005. likums "Kriminālprocesa likums" ("LV", 74 (3232), 11.05.2005.; Ziņotājs, 11, 09.06.2005.) [stājas spēkā 01.10.2005.]; | ||||||||
| 2 | 14.09.2006. likums "Tiesu ekspertu likums" ("LV", 157 (3525), 03.10.2006.; Ziņotājs, 20, 26.10.2006.) [stājas spēkā 01.07.2007.]; | ||||||||
| 3 | Ministru kabineta 2004.gada 17.augusta noteikumi Nr.715 „Tiespsihiatriskās ekspertīzes veikšanas kārtība”. | ||||||||
| 4 | Ministru kabineta 2007.gada 13.novembra noteikumi Nr.753 „Noteikumi par tiesu ekspertīžu iestāžu sarakstu”. | ||||||||
| 5 | Autoru kolektīvs. Tiesu ekspertīze Latvijā. Rīga, Latvijas Policijas akadēmija, 1999. | ||||||||
| 6 | Kulbergs J., Psihodinamiskā psihiatrija. J.L.V.,2001. | ||||||||
| 7 | Malans D.H., Individuālā psihoterapija un psihodinamikas zinātne. RaKa, 1997. | ||||||||
| 8 | Utināns A., Cilvēka psihe. Rīga, 2005. | ||||||||
| 9 | Vetterbergs L., Psihiatrija. Rīga, 1993. | ||||||||
| 10 | Kaplan H.I., Sadock B.J., Comprehensive textbook of psychiatry. Williams&Wilkins, 1995. | ||||||||
| 11 | Simon R., Clinical Psyhiatry and the Law. American Press Washington, 1992. | ||||||||
| 12 | Дмитриева А.С., Судебная психиатрия. J.L.V., 2001. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | Žurnāls ,,Administratīvā un kriminālā justīcija”; | ||||||||
| 2 | Nedēļraksts ,,Jurista Vārds”. | ||||||||
| 3 | www.psihiatrija.lv | ||||||||
| 4 | www.likumi.lv | ||||||||
| 5 | www.gvva.gov.lv | ||||||||
