Abstract:

Introduction:
It is worthwhile defining Legal and Forensic Psychology as it is considered by the American Psychological Association to be one of the professional fields that are in greater demand. It is the professional and investigational area of Psychology where the object of study is human behaviour within a legal process. Due to the diverse roles that a legal psychologist could play, their training should have general and specific competences and skills for an effective professional development. Once these competences are well defined and implanted, they should be evaluated and if required, modified. Thus, the main objectives of this project are to evaluate the adaptation of the competences acquired with the “Master en Psicología del Trabajo y las Organizaciones, Jurídica-Forense y de la Intervención Social” to the labour market and to evaluate the level of satisfaction perceived by graduates.

Method:
An ad hoc questionnaire was created to evaluate different variables; here, the ones related to perceived satisfaction and acquired competences were included. With the responses, a database was created, and descriptive results were presented.

Results:
The results about satisfaction with the master’s degree show that the great majority of graduates are highly satisfied with it, indicating that either its general, theorical or practical training and its competences and employability are above average. Regarding to the competences, ones defined as general are presented separately from the specific ones. The general competences have an elevated mean punctuation and so perceived as "very proper". On the subject of specific competences, the statistic mean is a bit lower but still perceived as "proper enough", which means that both of them are perceived as effective and important to the job. The perception that employers have regarding to the adjustment of the skills that the graduates show was also evaluated. Results indicate that their performance is, in general, adequate.

Conclusions:
The results obtained promote and validate the legal and forensic psychologist role that is developed on this master’s degree. In that way, it is possible to carry out teaching improvements to adjust the training plan to professional necessities. In addition to that, graduates finish the master's degree with great satisfaction and a high labour insertion. It is worthwhile then to spotlight the importance of carrying out evaluation procedures once finishing the degrees. Accordingly, it is important to emphasise that more subjects related to legal psychology are needed in the degree’s training plans.

Keywords:

Competences, satisfaction, labour integration, graduate’s evaluation, psychology.