Mental Health Resources

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.

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Social Services Resources

Torture occurs within a cultural and social context. It breaks the connections between individuals and their social environment. It separates the bonds of communities. Social work interventions, therefore, are directed at individuals, their families and immediate environments, community, social, and functional groups, and policies and systems. These are accomplished through direct service, resource development, community interventions, education and training, research, and public policy work.

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Legal Resources

Attorneys encounter torture survivors with a variety of legal needs. Frequently, however, the survivor’s initial and most pressing legal problem involves immigration matters, such as asylum, family reunification, or defense from removal (deportation). Because safety is crucial to the survivor’s ability to engage fully in torture treatment services, the asylum process is integral to rehabilitation.

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Medical Resources

Survivors of torture often present for care in medical settings, and sometimes in torture treatment programs. The medical portion of HealTorture.org is primarily, but not exclusively, geared to primary care providers (PCPs), including family doctors, internists, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. Other staff members in medical settings such as nurses and medical assistants can also facilitate survivors’ healing. Survivors frequently present to gynecologists (due to genital trauma, pelvic pain, etc.), cardiologists (persistent chest pain), gastroenterologists (persistent abdominal pain), and neurologists (intractable headaches and history of traumatic brain injury). Many survivors have gotten great relief of symptoms from physical therapists and practitioners of yoga and Traditional Chinese Medicine.

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Integrative Care Resources

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Providing Trauma-informed Services to Older Survivors of Torture

Available to Full Member and Other ORR Grant Recipients

Administration Resources

Resources for practitioners in operations and administration who are serving survivors of torture are as follows: development, integrated care, evaluation, technology, training, working with interpreters, and self-care.

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Mental Health Resources

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.

544 Resources Available

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Social Services Resources

Torture occurs within a cultural and social context. It breaks the connections between individuals and their social environment. It separates the bonds of communities. Social work interventions, therefore, are directed at individuals, their families and immediate environments, community, social, and functional groups, and policies and systems. These are accomplished through direct service, resource development, community interventions, education and training, research, and public policy work.

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Legal Resources

Attorneys encounter torture survivors with a variety of legal needs. Frequently, however, the survivor’s initial and most pressing legal problem involves immigration matters, such as asylum, family reunification, or defense from removal (deportation). Because safety is crucial to the survivor’s ability to engage fully in torture treatment services, the asylum process is integral to rehabilitation.

334 Resources Available

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Medical Resources

Survivors of torture often present for care in medical settings, and sometimes in torture treatment programs. The medical portion of HealTorture.org is primarily, but not exclusively, geared to primary care providers (PCPs), including family doctors, internists, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. Other staff members in medical settings such as nurses and medical assistants can also facilitate survivors’ healing. Survivors frequently present to gynecologists (due to genital trauma, pelvic pain, etc.), cardiologists (persistent chest pain), gastroenterologists (persistent abdominal pain), and neurologists (intractable headaches and history of traumatic brain injury). Many survivors have gotten great relief of symptoms from physical therapists and practitioners of yoga and Traditional Chinese Medicine.

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Integrative Care Resources

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Providing Trauma-informed Services to Older Survivors of Torture

Available to Full Member and Other ORR Grant Recipients

Administration Resources

Resources for practitioners in operations and administration who are serving survivors of torture are as follows: development, integrated care, evaluation, technology, training, working with interpreters, and self-care.

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Special challenges

Learnings from Developing Group Interventions with Underserved Populations: Children affected by Intergenerational Trauma and LGBTQ+ SOTs
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Sara Bracewell
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Integrative Care, Interventions, LGBTQ, Mental Health, Mental Health Groups, Social Services, Special challenges, Special Topics, Treatment Model, Webinar
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During NCTTP’s 16th Annual Symposium on March 18, 2024, Cecil Walker, LMFT, Charissa Cable, MSW,...
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Intensity of their suffering: Long-term physical and psychological symptoms in detained Syrian men, subjected to CRSV, torture and displacement
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Sexual violence and sexual torture, Special challenges, Sexual violence and sexual torture, Special Topics, Webinar, Social Services, Mental Health
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During NCTTP’s 16th Annual Symposium on March 18, 2024, Coleen Kivlahan MD, MSPH and Mohammed AlSharif,...
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Integrative Social Work with Asylum Seekers and Traumatized Migrants
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Sara Bracewell
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Administration, Case management, Innovative strategies, Integrated Care, Integrative Care, Social Rehabilitation and Case Management, Social Services, Special challenges, Staff Training, Trauma, Webinar, Working with interpreters
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Description: Asylum seekers and traumatized migrants often live at the intersection of racial, social, and...
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Strengthening Case Management: Case Management and the Suicidal Client
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Social Services, Webinar, Social Rehabilitation and Case Management, Improving Case Management, Special challenges, Suicide
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Description: This webinar, from December 18th, 2013, features Joan Hodges. It is the fourth in...
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Transcending Violence: Trauma-informed Care and Torture Survivors
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Trauma, Mental Health, Social Services, Webinar, Special Topics, Special challenges, Trauma
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This webinar, from 1/27/2010, features Andrea Blanch. It is presented as a part of the...
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