Postgraduate - UnitDPSY7111 - Advanced clinical psychology: Forensic/Legal

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2014 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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0 points, SCA Band 1, 0.000 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Organisational Unit	School of Psychological Sciences
Offered	Clayton First semester 2014 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	TBA

Synopsis

The unit will commence with an examination of the Australian legal system, the players in it and trial procedures in the various courts and tribunals. Using both seminars and practical sessions, rules of expert evidence and procedure will be examined, along with the role of the forensic psychologist in giving advice, performing assessments, writing reports for the court, giving evidence and mediation. Finally, case examples will be used to examine the application of psychological research to forensic issues and the particular ethical issues that arise for forensic psychologists.

Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should:

be cognisant of the institutions of the Australian legal system and its processes;
have a basic understanding of the relationship between the law and other social institutions;
understand the role and discretion of the various players in the legal system, and in particular, the areas in which the forensic psychologist can contribute;
be aware of the areas of psychological research which have general relevance to the legal system.

Assessment

Class Participation (Hurdle)

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Stefan Luebbers

Co-requisites

Must be enrolled in Doctor of Psychology in Clinical Psychology