Ad hoc Workshop | 7^th Optional Module of the III Course on Psychotraumatology of the Trauma Centre/CES (1 day) - credits 10 points for ESTSS European certification

Contents - Medical-legal expertise in psychological trauma and its implications for civil and criminal liability. The complexity of the evaluation of psychic damages following traumatic injuries. Civil and criminal law and the (ir)relevance of trauma. Induced memories/false memories.

Programme

Ana Luísa Afonso (Prosecutor of the Republic) - Trauma: Proof and protection in judicial practice

Fernando de Almeida (Forensic psychiatrist, guest lecturer at ICBAS, President of the General Assembly of the Portuguese Society of Psychiatry and Psychology of Justice) - The complexity of evaluation of psychic damages following traumatic injuries - the problem of veracity

João Pedroso (Professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra and CES researcher) - Medical-legal expertise in Civil law and Criminal law - the (ir)relevance of trauma

Marta Ávila (Lawyer, District Council of Coimbra of the Portuguese Bar Association) - The legal treatment of trauma - case studies