Immigration Evaluation Training
Coast to Coast Immigration Evaluation Training
Our mission is to train mental health providers to conduct immigration evaluations through trauma-informed interviewing and culturally responsive assessment, learn to understand each client's unique story and communicate it in a manner that is both clinically sound and meaningful within the immigration process.
Immigration Evaluation Training
Introduction to Immigration Mental Health Evaluations
Introduction to Immigration Mental Health Evaluations
Introduction to Immigration Mental Health Evaluations
Understanding the Role of the Mental Health Provider
- What is an immigration mental health evaluation?
- The role of the clinician in the immigration process
- Clinical evaluation
- Maintaining objectivity
- Ethics and professional boundaries
Immigration Case Types
Introduction to Immigration Mental Health Evaluations
Introduction to Immigration Mental Health Evaluations
Overview of the most common immigration evaluations
- Extreme hardship waivers
- Asylum
- VAWA
- U Visa
- T Visa
- Cancellation of removal
Clinical Interviewing
Introduction to Immigration Mental Health Evaluations
Conducting a Comprehensive Immigration Evaluation
Learn Person Centered and Culturally Responsive Clincal Interviewing
- Building trust with immigrant clients
- Understanding cultural differences in emotional expression
- Cultural humility vs. cultural assumptions
- Working with clients who may:
- minimize trauma
- feel shame
- distrust systems
- struggle describing symptoms
Conducting a Comprehensive Immigration Evaluation
Conducting a Comprehensive Immigration Evaluation
Conducting a Comprehensive Immigration Evaluation
Learn to conduct clinical interviews and develop a clincal formulation
- Clinical interview structure
- Gathering psychosocial history
- Trauma history
- Family history
- Immigration timeline
- Mental health history
Clinical Measures
Conducting a Comprehensive Immigration Evaluation
Writing the Immigration Evaluation Report
Learn DSM V - TR Cultural Formulation Interview and other cross-cultural measures
- Selecting appropriate measures
- Trauma assessments
- Depression/anxiety/PTSD measures
- Cultural considerations in assessment
Writing the Immigration Evaluation Report
Conducting a Comprehensive Immigration Evaluation
Writing the Immigration Evaluation Report
Learn the structure of an effective report
- Identifying information
- Referral question
- Background history
- Immigration history
- Trauma history
- Clinical interview
- Assessment results
- Diagnosis
- Clinical formulation
- Connection between trauma and symptoms
Building Your Immigration Evaluation Practice
Why Cultural Context Matters in Immigration Evaluations
Why Cultural Context Matters in Immigration Evaluations
Business Fundamentals 101
- Setting fees
- Creating systems
- Working with attorneys
- Marketing
- Website development
- Professional networking
Why Cultural Context Matters in Immigration Evaluations
Why Cultural Context Matters in Immigration Evaluations
Why Cultural Context Matters in Immigration Evaluations
Understanding the Immigrant Experience Through a Cultural and Trauma Lens
Clinicians will learn how to explore a client's cultural background, beliefs, and lived experiences to better understand how they perceive mental health, trauma, healing, and help-seeking. Additionally, clinicians willlearn how culture shapes the way trauma is understood, expressed, disclosed, and treated.
Course: Introduction to Immigration EValuation Training: A Comprehensive Approach
The course includes the training, presentaion and handouts.
Monthly Group Consult.
Life time access to templates, samples, measures.
Total Cost $2000 (payment plans available).
Upcoming Specialty Topics
Working with children and teens
Individual Consultations
1 hour Private Consult $120
1 hour marketing conusult $120
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