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
- Survivors of torture in detention
- Working with Torture Survivors
- Role of the Mental Health Professional
- Psychological Consequences of Torture
- Components of the Evaluation
- Screening Tools and Standardized Measures
- Traumatic Brain Injury and Assessment
- 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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Practice update: What professionals who are not brain injury specialists need to know about intimate partner violence-related traumatic brain injury
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Neuropsychological assessment of refugees: Methodological and cross-cultural barriers
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Strangulation, domestic violence, and brain injury: An introduction to a complex topic
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Prevalence and risk factors for intimate partner physical violence–related acquired brain injury among visitors to justice center in New York
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Traumatic brain injury as a disorder of brain connectivity
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Transnational Pacific Islanders: Implications for Social Work
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The journey to becoming trauma-informed – using pilot trauma training data to highlight the role of dental services in supporting patients affected by psychological trauma
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Dental anxiety in relation to torture experiences and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder
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The torture victim and the dentist: The social and material dynamics of trauma re-experiencing triggered by dental visits
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Trauma Informed Care (TIC) for Survivors of Torture Virtual Symposium
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