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Master of permanent training in Forensic Social Work

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Basic Information

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.

Program

 
 
 
2026-27 EDITION 
MODULE NAME   SUBJECTS  HOURS  CREDITS 
MODULE A; INTRODUCTORY ASPECTS OF FORENSIC SOCIAL WORK       
90 hours / 9 credits  Introduction to Civil Law  10 hours long.  1
  Introduction to Criminal Law/Penitentiary Law   10 hours long.  1
  Introduction to procedural law 20 hours long.  2
  Principle of equal opportunities between men and women 10 hours long.  1
  Forensic social expertise and labor crimes  10 hours long.  1
  Forensic social work and LGBTIQ+ diversity: analysis of psychosocial factors in contexts of exclusion and vulnerability. 20 hours long.  2
       
MODULE B: SOCIAL EXPERTISE IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE Organization and functioning of the administration of justice. Organization of the judiciary 5 hours long.  0,5
2 credits, 20 hours   history of social work in the administration of justice  5 hours long.  0,5
  Affiliation and Institutional Dependence  5 hours long.  0,5
  Competencies of the Social Work Professional in the Administration of Justice: Expertise, Assistance, Monitoring and Support  5 hours long.  0,5
  What is a Social Expertise Professional? Training Requirements. Types of Professionals.   5 hours long.  0,5
  Challenge, Recusal, Abstention, and Inhibition of Social Experts. On the Impartiality of the Professional   5 hours long.  0,5
       
MODULE C: SOCIAL EXPERTISE IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR  Legal perspective on social expert reports, Types of private expert reports. Terms and conditions of practical engagement. Professional fees and billing    
15 hours, 1,5 credits   15 hours long.  1,5 credits 
       
MODULE D: GENERAL CONCEPTS OF THE PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE OF THE TSF IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE The Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences. Common aspects and protocol. Team configuration. Multidisciplinarity  5 hours long.  0,5
25 hours, 2,5 credits  Expert Report of the Forensic Social Worker 5 hours long.  0,5
   The scientific method applied to social work. The social expert report as a means of proof (Psychometric tests)  15 hours long.  1,5
       
MODULE E: THE PRACTICE OF FORENSIC SOCIAL WORK IN THE FAMILY, CHILDHOOD AND DISABILITY SECTIONS      
50 hours, 5 credits  The practice of forensic social work in the family and childhood sections  30 3
  The practice of forensic social work in the sections for the protection of people with disabilities and the elderly - Prosecutor's Office  10 1
  The practice of forensic social work in the disability section of the Court of First Instance  10 1
       
MODULE F: THE PRACTICE OF FORENSIC SOCIAL WORK IN THE SECTIONS OF: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS. PRISON SUPERVISION SECTION OF THE COURTS OF FIRST INSTANCE. OFFICE OF ASSISTANCE TO VICTIMS OF CRIME.  a) Gender-based violence, domestic violence, and other types of violence; b) Assessment, social harm, and consequences; c) Section on violence against women, protocols, and Comprehensive Forensic Assessment Units. Section on violence against children, adolescents, and minors, and gender-based violence: case studies  45 hours long.  4,5 credits 
60 hours, 6 credits Offices for assisting victims of crime 5 hours long. 0,5 credits 
  Prison oversight section of the lower courts  10 hours long.  1 credit 
       
MODULE G: THE PRACTICE OF FORENSIC SOCIAL WORK IN OTHER SERVICES, SUBJECTS AND SITUATIONS  Pathology Department - Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences  10 1
40 hours, 4 credits Forensic Medical Clinic – Social Autopsy, Child Sexual Abuse (CSA), Economic Violence and Pre-constituted Evidence  20 2
  Forensic Social Work in Mental Health and Addictions 5 0,5
  Clinical Social Work and Forensic Social Work: Similarities and Differences.   5 0,5
       
MODULE H: HIGHER COURTS OF JUSTICE AND JUVENILE SECTION OF THE COURTS OF FIRST INSTANCE  Courts of first instance  20 2
30 hours, 3 credits  Juvenile Section of the Courts of First Instance  10 1
       
       
MODULE I: ORATORY AND JUDICIAL RATIFICATION  Legal language and forensic oratory 30 hours long.  3
 30 hours, 3 credits  Voice, body and gestural techniques
  Skills and competencies for defending the expert report 
  Appearance of the expert and ratification in civil proceedings
  Appearance of the expert and ratification in criminal proceedings
       
MODULE J: ETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY       
 10 hours, 1 credits  Ethical principles and criteria 5 0,5
Code of ethics
Basic notions of professional responsibility
Data protection regulations
Conflict of loyalties at a professional level
New technologies, artificial intelligence and forensic social work  5 0,5
       
MODULE K: EXTERNAL INTERNSHIPS       
140 hours, 14 credits    140 14
       
MODULE L: MASTER'S THESIS       
90 hours, 9 credits    90 9
       
       
       
SUMMARY  HOURS  CREDITS  
       
MODULE A 90 9  
MODULE B 20 2  
MODULE C 15 1,5  
MODULE D 25 2,5  
MODULE E 50 5  
MODULE F 60 6  
MODULE G 40 4  
MODULE H 30 3  
MODULE I 30 3  
MODULE J 10 1  
MODULE K 140 14  
MODULE L 90 9  
TOTAL  600 60  

evaluation systems

During the academic year there will be three group tests made up of multiple choice questions, short questions and a practical case. The first of the tests will include the subjects from module A to D, the second test will include the subjects included in modules F and G, and finally, the third test will include the subjects included in modules E, H and I.

Each part of each of the tests will be weighted as follows: multiple choice test and short question test 60% and the practical course 40% of the final grade. In any case, in each of the tests you must obtain a grade of 5 or higher.

The final mark of the group tests will be the sum of those obtained in each one of them.

The final grade of the Master will be made up as follows:

The group tests weigh 25% of the final grade

External practices weigh 30% of the final grade

The Master's Final Project weighs 45% of the final grade

Recipients

No. of Places: 25

Number of places reserved: 2. When the number of applications that meet the access requirements exceeds the number of places available, a place is reserved for vulnerable groups (disability, victims of terrorism and gender violence, article 50 of the regulation) with the same selection criteria. In the event that said quota is not covered, it will pass to the general quota.

The start of the course is subject to the minimum number of students enrolled.

Academic Management and Faculty

Academic direction:

  • José Gabriel Rodriguez Pérez    
  • Maria Visitation Sancho Valentino

Along with teachers with permanent links to the URJC, most of those who form part of the cast of teachers on the Master's are active forensic social workers with extensive and proven professional experience in the different fields of social work in the Administration of Justice and in the provision of specialized training in social expertise.

Quality guarantee

BOCM Link

Internal quality assurance system

Manual of the Internal Quality Assurance System

Composition of the commission

Presidency (academic direction): Pablo Benlloch Sanz

Secretary (teacher representative): Mary Visitation Sancho Valentine

Student representative: Laura Robledo

It will be selected once registration is completed and the course begins.

PTGAS Representative: Beatriz Martin Barrio

Head of Continuing Education Service.

Representative of employer companies and society: Eva Pérez Fernández Forensic Social Work Association

Results report

Once the follow-up of the Master of Lifelong Training has been carried out, the most relevant quantitative information on the results obtained in the follow-up of said Degree is shown.

General information collection plan

Within the quality assurance system of the Rey Juan Carlos University, the following surveys are planned:

- Student profile

- Teacher evaluation

- Degree of satisfaction:

  • Of the students
  • of the graduates
  • From the Faculty
  • Technical, Management, Administration and Services Staff

- Labor insertion

- External internships:

  • Satisfaction of interns
  • External tutor satisfaction
  • Employer satisfaction

Survey results:

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

Horas: 600 hours long.

Expected start: 13 October 2026

Intended end: July 25, 2027

Reservation of place and enrollment

PERMANENT TRAINING MASTER'S DEGREE IN FORENSIC SOCIAL WORK

Start date: October 13, 2026 to July 25, 2027

Pre-registration : June 1 to September 27, 2026

Registration: 27 September to October 10 2026

Title price: 3000 Euros

Pre-registration: €500. This amount is included in the total cost of the course and will be refunded if your academic application is not accepted. If, once the student's application is accepted, he/she does not formalize the registration, the amount deposited as pre-registration will not be returned.

The beginning of the course is conditioned to the minimum number of students enrolled.

No. of Places: 25

Number of places reserved: 2. When the number of applications that meet the access requirements exceeds the number of places available, a place is reserved for vulnerable groups (disability, victims of terrorism and gender violence, article 50 of the regulation) with the same selection criteria. In the event that said quota is not covered, it will pass to the general quota.

The start of the course is subject to the minimum number of students enrolled.

Documentation to attach, forms and place of delivery

The applicant will present all the scanned documentation, in the formats allowed through the link https://www.urjc.es/estudiar-en-la-urjc/admision/276-formacion-continua#preinscripcion

The documentation that you will have to submit is the following:

Students with a degree obtained from a Spanish university or a Higher Education Institution belonging to another Member State of the European Higher Education Area that provides access to continuing education courses must submit the following documentation:

Students with foreign qualifications must submit the following documentation:

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