Psychic Damage and its Legal Medical Assessment in Costa Rica

Abstract

It is relevant to have knowledge about the medical-legal assessment of psychic damage, to make an approach in a general way, refreshing the concept of mental health and its own affectations. Likewise, know agrosomodo: How is violence classified? And if these different types of violence can cause trauma or mental damage in the psyche of a person? Consequently, all psychological damage has its own consequences, for example: the consequences produced by a violent environment. Similarly, it is important to analyze psychic damage from its general conception and its legal assessment, simultaneously it is significant to assess the concept of non-pecuniary damage and its differences with psychic damage. At the same time, it is important to know the assessment of the Third Chamber of the Court on mental injuries in the same way to know succinctly the Costa Rican legal framework with its respective medical assessment of psychological damage. In the same way, it is essential to appreciate the psychological assessment of mental damage by creating awareness of the effects produced by criminal victimization. It would be necessary to say the process of psychological expert evaluation. Last but not least, knowing the possible factors and psychic effects after a victimizing situation.