Mental Health
Torture survivors engage in psychological services to pursue a wide range of goals, from single symptom reduction to addressing the complex effects of torture on their families and communities. Psychological effects of torture vary considerably. Likewise, there is wide variation in the types of assistance sought to address such effects, depending on a host of factors ranging from service accessibility to beliefs about health and healing.
Topics
- Working with Interpreters
- Self-care for Providers
- Advanced Clinicians
- Training Mental Health Evaluators
- Treatment Model
- Specific Populations
- Asylum Process
- US Asylum Law
- One-Year Filing Deadline
- Asylum seekers in detention
- Evaluation Practice Manuals
- Working with Torture Survivors
- Role of the Mental Health Professional
- Psychological Consequences of Torture
- Components of the Evaluation
- Screening Tools and Standardized Measures
- Client meetings & communication
- Supporting client during asylum process
- Writing effective affidavits
- Expert witness testimony
- The Adjudicator’s Perspective
- Special Topics
- Survivors from specific groups
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Psychological Issues and Techniques in Navigating the Asylum Process e-Consultation
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Psychological Issues and Techniques in Navigating the Asylum Process
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Fundamentals: Mental Health Services Resources
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An Outline of a Best Practice Model for the Complex Care of Torture Survivors e-Consultation
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An Outline of a Best Practice Model for the Complex Care of Torture Survivors
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Fundamentals: Mental Health Services
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Enhancing Empathy by Measuring Torture Symptoms with Survivors
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Tortured & Detained: Survivor Stories of U.S. Immigration Detention
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Advocacy for Refugees
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Screening for War Trauma, Torture, and Mental Health Symptoms Among Newly Arrived Refugees: A National Survey of U.S. Refugee Health Coordinators