Master in Penitentiary Psychology and Forensic Psychology + University Degree

Penitentiary psychology is the branch of legal psychology that aims to analyze and explain the evaluation and treatment processes to which people must undergo penitentiary custody, have been convicted or are awaiting trial, as well as the subsequent process of community character that seek to achieve their social reintegration. Through this Penitentiary Psychology Master, students are offered the training of update and recycling adequate for specialization in this professional field.

Among the main objectives of the Penitentiary Psychology Master we can highlight the following: - Describe in detail the prison institutions and their organization. - Determine the applicable legislation in this sector. - Know the Code of Conduct on which action is based on prison institutions. - Describe the benefit of the existence of the corresponding regulation in the penitentiary institutions. - Knowing the current legislation that regulates is the status of persons deprived of liberty, the means of prevention, the alternatives to the prison situation, and the incorporation into normal once the sentence is fulfilled. - Know the fundamental aspects of criminal psychology. - Classify and characterize the victim. - Know the relevant factors in the testification process. - Perform a prediction of criminal conduct. - Know the prison organizational structure. - Learn the functioning of the penitentiary institution. - Apply psychological treatments in prisons. - Intervene psychologically to prevent suicides or drug addictions. - Know the different types of psychologists working for the courts of justice in Spain. - Make an evaluation and psychological expert report. - Know the specific issues of forensic psychology. - Apply evaluation techniques within forensic psychology.

Thanks to the Penitentiary Psychology Master you can develop your professional work in areas such as Penitentiary Psychology, Penitentiary Centers or Legal Psychology.

Thanks to this Penitentiary Psychology Master you can acquire the appropriate knowledge to specialize in this branch of legal psychology, training to have a complete vision of psychological intervention techniques in users residing in this type of centers and others of similar characteristics.

The Penitentiary Psychology Master is aimed at professionals in the sector who want to expand their training or specialize in the functions related to psychology in prison.

This training is not included in the scope of official regulated training (Infant Education, Primary Education, Secondary Education, Official Professional Training FP, Baccalaureate, University Degree, Official University Master and PhD). It is therefore a complementary and/or specialization training, aimed at acquiring certain skills, skills or aptitudes of a professional nature, being able to be barely as merit in workbags and/or opposition competitions, always within the complementary training section and/or continuous training being always essential to review the specific requirements of the public labor stock of the public labor stock market.