Aims

Psychological and social support is a clinical observation method used in the field of research, for individual examination and for helping others.

The course seeks to provide a critical knowledge of the method and to familiarize the criminology student with the method.

Main themes

Theoretical and technical aspects of the method are examined from the viewpoint of the psychological machinery involved in the interrelationship and of methodological limitations.

The following points are covered: defining support criteria in the clinical field; teleology; observation and listening techniques; statement of need; assistance techniques.

During the practical work, the students are invited to engage in support role playacting, in small groups, on the basis of scenarios taken from actual criminological settings.

Content and teaching methods

Introduction
Definition of interviewing. Interviewing in the field of the clinical social sciences.
Principal ideal models of reference: the psychoanalysis, the systemic theory, the cognitivo-behavioral theory, the approach of Rogers.
Chapter 1: Contexts of talks in the criminological practices and their objectives.
Chapter 2: Interviewing : a professional and spoken meeting; the asymmetrical professional position, the spoken communication and its misadventures, characteristics of the meeting with the child, with the teenager, with families
of different culture
Each part of the subject is exposed with clinical illustrations. A broad place is reserved for the dialogue with the students.
Talks and role plaies by small groups under the supervision of an assistant. The scenarios of the role plaies are collected near criminologists experts starting from situations really met.

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Evaluation : individual or collective written work.
Oral examination.

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