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
- Program Evaluation
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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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Traumatology Institute
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Joyful Heart Foundation
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Secondary Traumatic Stress: A Fact Sheet for Child-Serving Professionals
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When Compassion Hurts: Burnout, Vicarious Trauma and Secondary Trauma in Prenatal and Early Childhood Service Providers
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Professional Quality of Life Scale
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What About You? A Workbook for Those Who Care for Others