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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Family Based Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Services
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Guide: Afghan Backgrounder
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Post-resettlement stressors, coping strategies, and the Afghan Symptom Checklist
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CVT Literature Selection Q4 2021
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Afghan Arrivals
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Caring for Newly Arrived Afghans – Free Online Course with CME
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Access for Everyone: A Toolkit for Addressing Health Equity and Racial Justice within Integrated Care Settings
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Applying Ambiguous Loss Theory to Torture Survivors: A Conversation with Pauline Boss
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Center for Victims of Torture Literature Selection Q2 2021
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CVT Literature Selection Q3 2021