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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
- Program Evaluation
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                    Tip sheet: Training Community Service Providers to Work with Survivors of Torture                
            
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                    Sample psychological affidavit                
            
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                    Istanbul Protocol: Manual on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment                
            
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                    Fact Sheet: The Basics of US Asylum Law                
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                    How to Assuage Adjudicator Concerns About Mental Health Evaluation                
            
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                    Mental Health Professional Testimony in Asylum Cases                
            
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                    Collaborating with Mental Health Professionals: Assessments of Torture Survivors Seeking Asylum                
            
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                    Telling the Story: Preparing a Torture Survivor to Testify                
            
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                    Preparing an Asylum Affidavit: Tips for Interviewing Torture Survivors