Program Overview

Master of Permanent Training in Forensic Social Work

Presentation

The master's degree aims to complement the training of active Social Work professionals or those who want to dedicate themselves in the future to social expertise. It will contribute to training in the necessary socio-legal skills and competencies, for a correct performance of the functions of the Social Worker in the field of the Administration of Justice and in the exercise from private practice, including knowledge about ethics, roles and functions to perform, tools, resources, organization of the judicial system and expert practice.

Objectives

• Know the current judicial system and enter the social forensic field to define functions, roles and practices of the professional.
• Identify the different tasks of the Social Worker in the judicial field
• Improve the technical capacity of the social work professional and the application of the techniques and tools of social evaluation, to obtain evidence from various sources of information and issue opinions based on objectivity and impartiality.
• Identify possible ethical dilemmas.
• Prepare expert reports in accordance with current legal regulations.
• Develop skills and abilities to appear in oral proceedings
• Strengthen the role of the Social Worker within the framework of the new Administration of Justice
• Train Social Work professionals with a specialized qualification to work in the expert field

Competences

General Competencies

• Problem solving ability.
• Ability to develop open and empathetic attitudes based on respect and recognition of diversity and multiculturalism
• Capacity Ethical commitment.
• Capacity for organization and planning.
• Capacity for analysis and synthesis.
• Oral and written communication skills
• Information management capacity.
• Ability to analyze and search for information from various sources.

Specific Competences

• Ability to act, when circumstances require, in defense of the interests of the people served, especially in obvious situations of risk
• Ability to act in the resolution of risk situations arising from professional practice.
• Ability to prepare and present stories and social reports respecting the ethical and professional principles of intervention in the professional forensic field.
• Ability to use the usual techniques and instruments in social work, adapting them to the judicial environment.
• Ability to work effectively within interdisciplinary teams in order to collaborate in the establishment of goals and objectives, and even to contribute to the constructive management of possible disagreements.
• Ability to manage conflicts, dilemmas and complex ethical problems, identifying them, designing resolution or overcoming strategies, and reflecting on said results and evaluating them.
• Ability to ratify the expert opinion prepared in court and answer the questions asked by lawyers, prosecutors, judges and magistrates.

Programme

The programme consists of several modules:

• Module A: Basic legal concepts applied to social expertise
• Module B: Administration of Justice and Social Work
• Module C: General concepts about the expert opinion
• Module D: The exercise of social expertise in the private sphere
• Module E: Sociological construction of intrasociety relations
• Module F: Professional practice in the Administration of Justice: General aspects
• Module G: Professional practice in the Administration of Justice: Areas of action I and II
• Module H: Oratory and judicial ratification
• Module I: Ethics and professional responsibility
• Module J: External practices
• Module K: Final Degree Project

Evaluation Systems

The evaluation system consists of three group tests, each including multiple choice questions, short questions, and a practical case. The final grade of the Master will be made up as follows:

• Group tests: 25% of the final grade
• External practices: 30% of the final grade
• Master's Final Project: 45% of the final grade

Recipients

• Number of places: 25
• Number of places reserved: 2 (for vulnerable groups)

Academic Management and Faculty

• Academic direction: Pablo Benlloch Sanz and M. Visitation Saint Valentine
• Teachers with permanent links to the URJC and active forensic social workers with extensive and proven professional experience

Quality Guarantee

• Internal quality assurance system
• Manual of the Internal Quality Assurance System
• Composition of the commission: Presidency (academic direction), Secretary (teacher representative), Student representative, PTGAS Representative, and Representative of employer companies and society

Results Report

• Quantitative information on the results obtained in the follow-up of the Master

General Information Collection Plan

• Surveys: Student profile, Teacher evaluation, Degree of satisfaction, Labor insertion, External internships
• Survey results: Indicators 2023/24, Indicators 2022/23

Improvement Actions

• The Quality Assurance System of the Rey Juan Carlos University establishes that the degree's Quality Assurance Commission will annually analyze the information derived from the degree's indicators and prepare a report that will include improvement plans if the results so indicate.

Duration and Development

• Modality: Interactive
• Number of credits: 60 credits
• Hours: 600h
• Expected start: 17 October 2025
• Intended end: July 20, 2026

Reservation of Place and Enrollment

• Start date: October 20, 2025 to July 20, 2026
• Pre-registration: June 1 to October 12, 2025
• Registration: 27 to 2 October 2025
• Title price: 3000 Euros
• Pre-registration: 500 (included in the total cost of the course and will be refunded if the academic application is not accepted)

Documentation to Attach, Forms, and Place of Delivery

• Scanned documentation to be presented through the link urjc/admision/276-formacion-continua#preinscripcion
• Documentation required:
  • National Identity Document or equivalent
  • University degree of the studies that give access to the requested postgraduate degree
  • Curriculum vitae
  • Responsible declaration of veracity of the data provided in digital format
  • Any other document required by the Academic Department of Continuing Education for acceptance