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
Webinar
The Science of Empathy, Empathic Reflection, and Empathic Regulation in Clinical Care
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How Do You Deal With the Trauma? VT and Me
E-Learning
Fundamentals: Self Care
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Healthy Organizations: Beyond Individual Self-Care
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An End to Self Care
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Help for the Helper: Self-Care Strategies for Managing Burnout and Stress
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Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others
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Breath of Relief: Transforming Compassion Fatigue into Flow
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Secondary Traumatic Stress: Self-Care Issues for Clinicians, Researchers, and Educators
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Trauma and the Therapist: Countertransference and Vicarious Traumatization in Psychotherapy With Incest Survivors
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