Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)
Study Course Description
Forensic Investigation of Suspects and Defendants in Criminal Proceedings
Course Code
RTP_001
Branch of Science
Clinical medicine
ECTS
32.00
Target Audience
Medicine
LQF
Level 8
Study Course Implementer
Course Supervisor
Anita Apsīte
Residency Speciality
Speciality
Forensic Psychiatry Expert
Supervisor of Medical Speciality
Anita Apsīte
Contacts
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About Study Course
Objective
To ensure acquisition and improvement of theoretical knowledge and practical skills according to the knowledge necessary for a forensic psychiatric expert, in order to prepare a forensic psychiatric expert for certification in forensic psychiatry in accordance with the laws and regulations of the Republic of Latvia. To provide knowledge, experience, skills and competences to students necessary for making forensic psychiatric expertise.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge
1.On the legal substantiation for the application of forensic psychiatric expertise, types of forensic expertise, including complex expertise; legal and medical criteria of legal incapacity, limited capacity, expert’s rights and obligations, expert’s responsibility; psychopathological mechanisms for activities dangerous for society, prevention principles of activities dangerous for the society; types of forced medical means, substantiation for their amending and cancellation; expertise institutions, operating principles; planning and organisation of expertise, operation principles of penitentiary psychiatry.
Skills
1.Deal with the materials of a criminal and civil case, make psychiatric diagnostics and forensic psychiatric diagnostics, analyse medical records by comparing, summarising and analysing them in relation to the materials of the criminal case and civil case; single out data of importance for the expertise which indicate towards any mental disorders of a person; provide a general review and analysis of the obtained data, as well as make impartial and justified conclusions; skills to foresee the dangerousness of the person subject to the expertise and depending on the degree of dangerousness, recommend the most optimal forced medical means; skills to draw up an opinion according to the requirements of the regulatory enactments by using terminology known to the person directing the proceedings, maintain the viewpoint expressed in the opinion in the court, answer questions of the parties of the proceedings, depending on one’s competence; skills to distinguish mental disorders from simulation, describe and substantiate them; ability to conduct complex expertise, separating the competence spheres of experts. Skills to observe deontology principles, apply methods and technologies used in psychiatry.
Competences
1.Diagnostics, care, communication, cooperation and interpersonal skills of persons with mental disorders, competence in expertise organization and planning, ethical, deontology and legal issues, education and science to ensure drafting of objective opinion.
Assessment
Individual work
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Individual work |
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To draw up one forensic psychiatric expertise opinion on a monthly basis; by including forensic psychiatric expertise, complex forensic psychiatric opinion, by involving an addiction specialist.
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Examination
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A multiple- choice theoretical knowledge test and case analysis after each study course.
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Study Course Theme Plan
FULL-TIME
Part 1
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Seminar
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Auditorium
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Topics
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Expertise of persons under suspicion and accused under criminal proceedings
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Organisation of a forensic expertise institution, forensic psychiatric expertise in the country. Tasks of forensic psychiatry
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History of forensic psychiatry in Latvia
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Legal basics of forensic psychiatry; rights, obligations, responsibility of a forensic psychiatric expert
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Methodology of forensic psychiatric expertise, methodology and stages of forensic psychiatric diagnostics
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Ethics and deontology in forensic psychiatry
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Types of forensic psychiatric expertise – outpatient, inpatient, additional, repeated, complex. Participation of an expert in the court, court expertise
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Theoretical and legal substantiation for criminal capacity, incapacity, limited criminal capacity, medical and legal criteria
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Public dangerousness of persons with mental disorders
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Forensic psychiatric expertise in minors, clinical manifestations of mental disorders in adolescents, principles of diagnostics and forensic psychiatric assessment
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Forensic psychiatric expertise for women; specifics of female criminality, aggressive behaviour with legal consequences in a family, murders of new-borns
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Forensic psychiatric expertise for persons with organic personality disorders, personality and behaviour disorders, epilepsy patients
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Forensic psychiatric expertise for persons with schizophrenia, schizotypal disorders, nightmare syndromes, schizoaffective disorders
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Forensic psychiatric expertise for persons with psychogenic disorders, acute reactions to stress; physiological affect and other acute emotional conditions
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Forensic psychiatric expertise for persons with mental retardation and amentia
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Simulation and dissimulation, types, specifics of diagnostics and methods
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Forced medical means, their types, indications for their recommendation – medical, social and psychological aspects
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Amending and cancellation of forced medical means. Their legal substantiation.
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Investigation of the materials of the criminal case, assessment of data relevant to the expertise in relation to person’s mental condition during the expertise. Investigation and analysis of medical records. Analysis of all data obtained during expertise and their assessment in mutual interconnections, principles of drawing an objective conclusion and substantiation
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Drawing up a forensic psychiatric opinion, mandatory elements of the opinion
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Forensic psychiatric expertise for persons with mental disorders after committing a criminal offence, forensic psychiatric diagnostics, indications for application of forced medical means and ability to participate in pre-trial and court proceedings
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Forensic psychiatric expertise of convicts regarding their ability to continue serving the sentence in prisons.
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Penitentiary psychiatry, its organisation in Latvia
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
32.00
Number of Residency Seminars:
23
Length (weeks):
32
Final Examination:
Residency exam (Theory and practice)
Bibliography
Required Reading
1.
Kaplan & Sadock's Synopsis of Psychiatry. Author: Robert Boland; Marcia Verduin; Pedro Ruiz. 12th ed. Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), 2021.
2.
Principles and Practice of Forensic Psychiatry Author: Richard Rosner; Charles Scott. 3rd ed. Publisher: CRC Press, 2017.
3.
Forensic Psychiatry, Clinical, Legal and Ethical Issues. Edited by John Gunn, Pamela Taylor. 2nd ed. Publisher: Routledge, 1038 Pages, 2019.
4.
Šizofrēnijas diagnostikas un ārstēšanas vadlīnijas. 3. izdevums. Autori: E. Tērauds, E. Rancāns, R. Andrēziņa, u.c. Latvijas psihiatru asociācija. Rīga, 2014. – 43.lpp.
5.
Bipolāri afektīvo traucējumu diagnostikas un ārstēšanas vadlīnijas. 2.izdevums. Autori: E. Tērauds, E. Rancāns, R. Andrēziņa, B.Kupča. Latvijas psihiatru asociācija. Rīga, 2016. – 48.lpp.
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Depresijas diagnostikas un ārstēšanas vadlīnijas. 3.izdevums. Autori: E. Tērauds, E. Rancāns, R. Andrēziņa, u.c. Latvijas psihiatru asociācija. Rīga, 2015. – 52.lpp.
7.
Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology, Neuroscientific Basis and Practical Applications. 5th ed. -644p; Author: Stephen M. Stahl – 2021.
8.
Semple D, Smyth R. Oxford Handbook of Psychiatr. 4th ed. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2019.
9.
Narkoloģija Astrīdas Stirnas redakcijā. Stirna A., Landsmane I., Skaida S., Stankeviča I. Rīga, SIA „Medicīnas apgāds” – 476.lpp., 2008.
10.
Руководство по судебной психиатрии, Под редакцией Ткаченко А.А.; 3-ие издание, Издательство Юрайт, 449 стр., 2019.год
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Основы судебно-психиатрической экспертизы. Учебное пособие. Авторы: Е.Е.Новикова, В.В.Козлов; Издательство Флинта, 220стр., 2017.
12.
MGH Handbook of Neurology. Author: Flaherty, Alice W., Rost, Natalia S. 3rd ed. 272 pages, Publisher: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins; 2021.
13.
Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Neurology: Principles and Practice. Author: David Silbersweig, Laura T.Safar. 960 pages, Publisher: McGraw Hill/Medical, 2021.
Additional Reading
1.
Psihiskā veselība Latvijā 2014.gadā. Tematiskais ziņojums. SPKC. 15 izdevums Rīga.
2.
Mācību grāmatas “Klīniskā medicīna”. profesora Aivara Lejnieka redakcijā, 2012.
3.
Galvas smadzeņu pusložu bojājuma un kairinājuma sindromi. Sast. I.Logina, E.Smeltere, Ž.Labinska. RSU Neiroloģijas katedra, 2006. -16 lpp.
4.
The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry. Author: Carol Paton, Shitij Kapur. Publisher: Wiley, 2012.
5.
Klīniskais algoritms: Ar alkohola lietošanu saistīto veselības traucējumu atpazīšana, vadīšana, ārstēšanas principi un aprūpe. Autore narkoloģe Astrīda Stirna. 2018.
Other Information Sources
1.
Tiespsihiatriskās ekspertīzes veikšanas kārtība; Ministru kabineta noteikumi Nr. 695; Rīgā 2018. gada 13. novembrī (prot. Nr. 52 32. §).
2.
Tiesu ekspertu likums, redakcija uz 15.03.2016, Publicēts: Latvijas Vēstnesis 42, 01.03.2016.
3.
Civilprocesa likums, redakcija uz 01.01.2022, Publicēts: Latvijas Vēstnesis 326/330, 03.11.1998.
4.
Administratīvā procesa likums, redakcija uz 01.12.2021; Publicēts: Latvijas Vēstnesis 164, 14.11.2001.
5.
Ievietošana psihiatriskajā slimnīcā, ja piemērots medicīniska rakstura piespiedu līdzeklis; Brošūra PDF. Informāciju sagatavojusi biedrība “Resursu centrs cilvēkiem ar garīgiem traucējumiem “ZELDA””, 2017.
6.
Vadlīnijas tiesu psiholoģiskās ekspertīzes noteikšanai -15.lpp, izstrādātas Latvijas juridiskās psiholoģijas asociācijas Tiesu psiholoģijas ekspertu darba grupā, apstiprinātas Latvijas juridiskās psiholoģijas asociācijas valdes sēdē 01.02.2018.
7.
Klīniskie algoritmi, pacientu ceļi un indikatori garīgās (psihiskās) veselības jomā.
8.
Slimības kontroles un profilakses centrs, datu bāzes.SSK-10,1.sējums, 5.izdevums, 2016.
9.
Slimību profilakses un kontroles centrs „Ieteikumi bērnu un pusaudžu atkarību izraisošo vielu lietošanas un procesu atkarības pazīmju agrīnai atpazīšanai, profilaksei un palīdzības iespējām”, Informatīvs materiāls, 2018.