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Selected issues of rehabilitation of sex offenders

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Course ID: WF-PS-N-WZR
Erasmus code / ISCED: 14.4 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0313) Psychology The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title: Selected issues of rehabilitation of sex offenders
Name in Polish: Wybrane zagadnienia resocjalizacji przestępców seksualnych
Organizational unit: Institute of Psychology
Course groups: (in Polish) Przedmioty obowiązkowe dla IV roku, Specjalność psychologia sądowa i penitencjarna
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): 3.00 Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles:
  • the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS;
  • the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h;
  • 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes;
  • weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS;
  • work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load.
Language: Polish
(in Polish) Dyscyplina naukowa, do której odnoszą się efekty uczenia się:

psychology
Subject level:

intermediate
Learning outcome code/codes:

Ps_W09, Ps_W13, Ps_U12, Ps_K02
Short description:

The aim of the course is to show the problems of sex offenders in a psychological context, including the problems of rape and pedophilia. The practical aim of the course is to learn social rehabilitation programs for sex offenders.
Full description:

Selected issues of social rehabilitation of sex offenders (exercises)

Objectives: Getting to know the problems in the field of psychopathology of sex offenders with references to social rehabilitation, including psychotherapy (including Gestalt therapy).

Learning outcome: Attitude - openness and readiness to help sexual offenders. Competence - knowledge of the subject - psychopathology of sex offenders.

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of personality psychology and clinical psychology.

Assessment methods: Completion of the course - in the oral form (verification interview). The material presented in the exercises is obligatory.

Program content:

1. Paraphilias (main focus: definitions, classification).

2. Pedophilia (main topic: case study, causes, categories, treatment options).

3. Pedophilia in the Gestalt plane (main area: background, figures, characters).

4. Sadomasochism and necrophilia and crime (main focus: etiology, development, therapy).

5. Other paraphilias - e.g. gerontophilia and zoophilia (main focus: etiology, development, therapy).

6. Rape (main concern: etiology, psychological consequences, post-traumatic stress).

7. Rape in the Gestalt plane (main focus: background, figures, characters).

8. Factors affecting sexual crime (mainly: alcohol, biological, psychological and cultural factors).

9. Personality of sex offenders (main focus: juvenile and adult offenders, directions of change).

10. Abused syndromes (mainly: battered wife syndrome, battered husband syndrome, Stockholm syndrome).

11. Strategies and methods of social rehabilitation interactions for sex offenders.

12. Social rehabilitation programs for sex offenders - STOP and "Respect".

13. Finally live - 12 steps of life (possibility of adapting the program to sex offenders).
Bibliography:

Mandatory reading:

1. Kępiński A., Z psychopatologii życia seksualnego, Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków 2003.

3. Pospiszyl K., Przestępstwa seksualne, APS - PWN, Warszawa 2006.

Recommended item:

1. Beisert M., Kazirodztwo. Rodzice w roli sprawców, Scholar, Warszawa 2004.
Efekty kształcenia i opis ECTS:

Knowledge

The student has knowledge of sexual deviations (1).

The student has knowledge of the psychological factors that characterize sex offenders (2).

The student has knowledge of social rehabilitation programs for sex offenders (3).

Skill

The student has the ability to select research and diagnostic methods for sex offenders (4).

Competence

The student is able to conduct a basic therapeutic and social rehabilitation session for sex offenders (5).
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:

Completion of the subject orally (verification interview). Two absences allowed. Grade 3 - basic, general knowledge of issues; grade 4 - detailed knowledge of the issues; grade 5 - the ability to transfer theoretical content to the social rehabilitation, practical and therapeutic plane.

Classes in period "Summer semester 2022/23" (past)

Time span: 2023-02-01 - 2023-06-30
Selected timetable range:
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Type of class:
Classes, 30 hours, 20 places more information
Coordinators: Waldemar Woźniak
Group instructors: Waldemar Woźniak
Students list: (inaccessible to you)
Examination: Course - graded credit
Classes - graded credit
(in Polish) E-Learning:

(in Polish) E-Learning (pełny kurs) z podziałem na grupy
Type of subject:

obligatory
(in Polish) Grupa przedmiotów ogólnouczenianych:

(in Polish) nie dotyczy
Wymagania wstępne:

Prerequisites: basic knowledge of personality psychology and clinical psychology.

Classes in period "Summer semester 2023/24" (in progress)

Time span: 2024-02-15 - 2024-06-30
Selected timetable range:
Navigate to timetable
Type of class:
Classes, 30 hours, 20 places more information
Coordinators: Waldemar Woźniak
Group instructors: Waldemar Woźniak
Students list: (inaccessible to you)
Examination: Course - graded credit
Classes - graded credit
(in Polish) E-Learning:

(in Polish) E-Learning (pełny kurs) z podziałem na grupy
(in Polish) Opis nakładu pracy studenta w ECTS:

ECTS description - 3 points.:

- classes at the university - 30 hours;

- preparation for classes (homework) - 20 hours;

- preparation for the final passing of the course in oral form - 25 hours.
Type of subject:

obligatory
(in Polish) Grupa przedmiotów ogólnouczenianych:

(in Polish) nie dotyczy
Wymagania wstępne:

Prerequisites: basic knowledge of personality psychology and clinical psychology.
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