Program Overview

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Introduction to the DIU Psychopathologie Lťgale Program

The DIU Psychopathologie Lťgale program is a comprehensive course of study focused on the clinical and legal foundations of legal psychopathology. This program is designed to provide participants with a deep understanding of the interfaces between health and justice, as well as the fundamentals of criminology and victimology.

Presentation of the Formation

The DIU Psychopathologie Lťgale is structured into two levels:

• A first year, referred to as the "socle," which aims to share the fundamentals of legal psychiatry with anyone who may work in a professional field potentially concerned with these issues. This includes general psychiatry, general medicine, and other medical specialties, justice, socio-educational fields, etc.
• A second year of specialization for those who wish to specifically engage in this field, including expertise, psychiatry in the penitentiary environment, care for authors of sexual violence, criminology, and victimology.

Knowledge Acquired

Participants will acquire clinical, regulatory, and legal references for psychiatric devices articulated with justice. This includes knowledge of health/justice interfaces and the bases of criminological and victimological reflection.

Location of Teachings

The teachings will take place in Toulouse, at 133 Route de Narbonne, with specific locations to be confirmed with the pedagogical secretariat. The program is also associated with the Facultť de Santť de Toulouse and the Facultť de NÓmes-Montpellier.

Duration of the Formation

The program lasts for 1 year, with 5 sessions of 2 days each, totaling 10 days from November to June, and comprising 72 hours of instruction.

Partnerships

The program is partnered with the Universitť de Montpellier, among other establishments.

Admission

Pre-requisites

Required Formations

For those in initial training:

• Students in the 3rd cycle of medicine enrolled in psychiatry, legal medicine, general medicine, pediatrics, gynecology, geriatrics, addictology, occupational medicine.
• Foreign nationality students enrolled in DFMS/DFMSA in psychiatry or legal medicine.
• Chiefs of Clinic and AHU of Toulouse.
• Students graduated with a Master's 1 in Human and Social Sciences, if still enrolled in a university initial training course.
• Students in the course of a Master's 2 in Human and Social Sciences, if still enrolled in a university initial training course.
• Students graduated with a Master's 2 in Human and Social Sciences, if still enrolled in a university initial training course.
• Chiefs of clinic and AHU of Toulouse.

For those in continuing education:

• Doctor of medicine holding a French or European Union diploma.
• Doctor of medicine holding a diploma outside the European Union, registered with the Council of the Order in France.
• Nurse (DE), social assistance (DEASS), specialized educator (DE), psychologist, psychomotor therapist (DE): holders of a French or European Union diploma.
• Jurist, lawyer, CPIP, other actors in the health-justice system: holders of a French or European Union diploma.

Candidature

Candidature Modalities

To apply, send the required documents by mail to the specified address:

• Letter of motivation/professional project + CV + copy(ies) of diploma(s) allowing access to the requested diploma.
• Copy of registration with the Order Council.
• Calendar for depositing applications: to be seen with the pedagogical secretariat.

Specific Candidature Modalities

The establishment reserves the right to cancel the formation if the minimum number of participants is not reached.

Program

The program includes the following topics:

• Containing frameworks
• Constraints and free will
• Responsibilities
• Legal Psychopathology
• Organization of Justice in France
• General Penal Law
• Probation of condemned persons
• Organization of psychiatry in France
• Legal Psychiatry
• Irresponsibility of the mentally ill
• Colloquium CRIAVS-LR "Sexuality and adolescence"
• Care under constraint in the CSP
• Respect for patients' rights in care without consent
• Relationship between author(s) and victim(s): from criminology to victimology
• Psychotrauma and traumatic echo
• Clinical victimology
• Regimes of responsibility in law
• Psychiatry and criminality
• Training in HCR-20
• Secret and reporting
• From infraction to penal irresponsibility
• Paraphilias and sexual violence
• Minors as authors and victims
• Dangerosity: the schizophrenic, the pervert, and the psychopath
• Care under constraint in the CPP
• Legal protection of adults

Pedagogical Team

The list of interveners is not communicated and should be specified by contacting the pedagogical secretariat.

Stay(s) Abroad

There are no stays abroad as part of this program.

Modalities

Pedagogical Methods and Means Used

• Magisterial courses
• Clinical cases
• Practical application

Evaluation

• Final written exam

After the Program

Competences

Acquire clinical, regulatory, and legal references for psychiatric devices articulated with justice, knowledge of health/justice interfaces, and the bases of criminological and victimological reflection.

Inscriptions

Cost of the Formation

Tariff for Continuing Education Inscriptions

• University registration fees: 178 + formation fees: 1600

A tariff reduction can be considered based on your status. For any request for information, you can contact the MFCA manager of this formation.

Tariff for Initial Training Inscriptions

• University registration fees: 300 (+ 34 if no other registration is in progress at UT + 105 of CVEC if not already acquired)

Modalities of Inscription

Inscription in Continuing Education

1. Pre-requisites: You have deposited a candidacy application that has received a favorable opinion from the teacher responsible for the formation.
2. After validation by the SUDPC2S, you will be contacted by email by your MFCA manager for the administrative registration procedures to be carried out (estimate, contract or convention, payment of formation fees and university registration fees).
3. You must be imperatively registered administratively before the start of the teachings.

Inscription in Initial Training

1. Pre-requisites: You have deposited a candidacy application that has received a favorable opinion from the teacher responsible for the formation.
2. After validation of your pedagogical registration authorization, you will be contacted by email by your SUDPC2S manager for the administrative registration procedures to be carried out (registration file, payment of university registration fees).
3. You must be imperatively registered administratively before the start of the teachings.