Tips for examining asylum seekers, affidavit documention, and other legal resources:
Forensic Medical Briefs
Credit: Synergy for Justice
- Women in Detention
- Solitary Confinement Issue
- Self-Harm Psych
- Whipping and Blunt Trauma
- Sleep Deprivation
- Electrical Injury and Torture
- Gunshot Wounds
- Self-Harm Medical Aspects
- Cigarette Burns
- Sexual Dysfunction Following Torture
- Potential Torture
- LGBTQI Patterns of Injuries
Legal Briefs
Credit: Synergy for Justice
- Legal: Writing the Conclusion
- Legal: Preparing to Testify in Court
- Legal: Expert Wittness Role
- Preparing for Medical Evaluation
- Legal: Post-Evaluation Checklist
- Legal: Tips for Testifying in Court
- Legal: Photography as Evidence
- Legal: Trauma Informed Interviews
- Legal: Best Practices for Defensible Forensic Interviews
- Legal: Making Expert Qualifications
- Legal: Collecting and Preserving Evidence
- Legal: Informed Consent
- Legal: Building Rapport with Patients
- Legal: Concluding the Patient Interview
- Legal: Documentating the Patients Narrative in Expert Forensic Reports
Literature
- VECINA and the VIISTA Program at Villanova University have organized information regarding the conditions for asylum for individuals from the following countries: Afghanistan, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru, and Venezuela.
- Literature Review & Bibliography on the Impact of Trauma and Psychiatric Diagnoses on Memory and the Ability to Testify in Asylum Seekers by Los Angeles Human Rights Initiative
- How the Asylum Backlog Affects Torture Survivors and What the Biden Administration Can Do to Fix It By Hawthorne Smith, Ph.D.
- Examining Asylum Seekers Manual
- Istanbul Protocol
- Medical Physical Examination of Alleged Torture Victims
- Common Types of Persecution That Leave Psychological Sequelae
- Photographic Documentation, a Practical Guide for Nonprofessional Forensic Photography
- Asylum Grant Rate Following Medical Evaluations of Maltreatment among Political Asylum Applicants in the United States
- Online Resources for Working with Refugees,Victims of Torture, & Asylum-Seekers
- 3 Cognitive Strategies That Deny, Discount, & Dismiss Torture
- Psychological Assessment of Torture Survivors
- Tele-psychological Services Checklist
Immigrant Support
- Find Immigration Legal Help - SF County
- Immigrant Resources in SF Response and Referral Toolkit - SF Office of Civic Engagement and Immigrant Affairs
- Asylum Initial Intake - The LGBT Asylum Project
