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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Risk and resilience for psychological distress amongst unaccompanied asylum seeking adolescents
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Children, torture and psychological consequences
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Bhutanese in MN fact sheet
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Journal of Muslim Mental Health
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Therapeutic Work with Children and Families
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Resilience of Refugee Children After War
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Complementary Strengths: Western Psychology and Traditional Healing
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My Name Is… Stories and Art by Young Refugees in Minnesota Schools
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Minefields in Their Hearts: The Mental Health of Children in War and Communal Violence
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Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children
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