Working with Survivors

Please Note: This list is a work in progress. Please let us know if you feel that any of the material below is inaccurate or unclear, or if there are other things you think should be included.

PUBLICATIONS

• The Center for Victims of Torture offers a wide range of publications for those working with torture survivors. Many can be downloaded from the CVT website.
• Communicating Torture and War Experiences with Primary Care Providers, Erin Mehta, RN, PHN, and Maureen E. O’Dougherty, PhD, Center for Victims of Torture, Minneapolis, 2006. In detailed interviews with refugee clients at a clinic, 72% reported they had never brought up with their physician the ways they had been affected by violence. 66% reported that no doctor had ever asked, but 81% said they would like to talk to their doctors about war trauma if asked, or if it would be of help to their health.
• Examining Asylum Seekers: A Health Professional’s Guide to Medical and Psychological Evaluations of Torture, Physicians for Human Rights, Boston, MA, 2001.
• Harvard Guide to Khmer Mental Health, Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma, Cambridge, MA, 1996.
• Healing Invisible Wounds: Paths to Hope and Recovery in a Violent World, Richard F. Mollica, MD. Harcourt, Inc., Orlando, FL, 2006.
• Healing the Hurt: A Guide for Developing Services for Torture Survivors, Center for Victims of Torture, Minneapolis, MN (available for download).
• Social Work Practice with Refugee and Immigrant Youth in the United States, Melvin Delgado, Kay Jones, and Mojdeh Rohani. Allyn & Bacon, 2004.

INTERNET RESOURCES

• New Tactics in Human Rights This innovative project promotes tactical innovation and strategic thinking within the international human rights community and encourages the use and sharing of as wide a range of tactics as possible through its interactive website. New Tactics is a project of the Center for Victims of Torture.
• PILOTS: Searchable database of published literature on PTSD
  An electronic database of literature on post-traumatic stress disorder.
• Resources for Torture Survivors, Refugees & Asylum Seekers Psychologist Ken Pope has assembled a valuable list of organizations (U.S. and international) and other resources for survivors and those who work with them.
• Responding to Victims of Torture: Clinical Issues, Professional Responsibilities, and Useful Resources by Kenneth S. Pope & Rosa E. Garcia-Peltoniemi from Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, Vol. 22, #4.