Forensic Psychiatry (JF_283)
About Study Course
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.
Prerequisites
• 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.
Learning outcomes
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.
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.
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.
