The purpose of the Postgraduate Programme in "Forensic Psychiatry" of the School of Medicine of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens is to provide a high level of postgraduate education and specialization in the broad, developing and interdisciplinary subject of Forensic Psychiatry, as well as the promotion of research related to the subject of the postgraduate programme.
The study program will give to the students at a postgraduate level the theoretical and specialized background, as well as the clinical and practical experience in approaching the issues related to the subject of the postgraduate study.
In particular, it will specialize scientists from the fields of psychiatry, psychology, law, nursing, social work, etc. in the approach of violence, aggression, delinquency and mental health, in the recognition, management and treatment of these phenomena and who will act as assistants in the judicial cases of psychiatric patients.