Immigration Mental Health Evaluations
Psychological, Legal and Cultural Factors
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The next live workshop will be offered on Friday, November 7, 2025.
The 2023 workshop is available for purchase in video form.
To purchase the video contact: impactpsych.assist@gmail.com​
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Live Webinar Details:
Date: Friday, November 7, 2025
Time: 9 am - 4 pm PST
To register for the live webinar: https://forms.gle/mm951bJ7G5eGDjSx5
CE: 6 (CEs available for live webinar only)
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Workshop Description:
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High quality mental health evaluations are a core component of an immigrant’s application for legal status. This full day workshop provides training for licensed mental health professionals in Immigration Psychological Evaluations. The workshop focuses on the skills required to conduct high quality mental health evaluations for immigrants and refugees.
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The workshop will address:
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Introduction to immigration evaluation work
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Conceptual foundations (psycholegal, social justice and culturally responsive considerations)
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Immigration reform update
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The evaluation process
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Specific immigration legal applications
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Political Asylum, Extreme Hardship, Violence Against Women, Human Trafficking,
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Victim of a Crime, N648 and others
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Evaluation methodology
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Culturally responsive assessment and trauma-informed interviewing
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Telehealth evaluation and assessment
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Working with interpreters, attorneys, referral sources
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Report writing skills
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Advanced topics overview: testifying in court, building a practice specialty
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Workshop offered by IMPACT™ Immigration Psychology Access Team www.impactimmigration.org
IMPACT™ Immigration is a 501c3 non-profit. Our mission is to provide high quality psychological evaluations for low income immigrants.
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Learning Objectives:
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Participants will identify legal and mental health concepts in immigration evaluations.
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Participants will identify five immigration evaluation types and describe one assessment used to assess psychological functioning for each type of evaluation.
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Participants will be able to explain the difference between advocacy and presenting clinical data and demonstrate how this informs report writing and court testimony for immigration purposes.
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Participants will identify two areas for further skill development related to conducting mental health evaluations for immigration purposes.
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