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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CVT Literature Selection Q2 2023
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CVT Literature Selection Q1 2023
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Manual on Brief Ethnographic Interviewing: Understanding an Issue, Problem or Idea from a Local Perspective
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Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS) – Arabic
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Harvard Trauma Questionnaire – Arabic (Iraqi)
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Education and Support Group for Oromo War Trauma and Torture Survivors
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Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children
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Karen Refugees from Burma in the US: An Overview for Torture Treatment Programs