On-Demand 5 CEUOnline Course for
Psychotherapists
Psychotherapists
A handful of hours of your work can
save lives and keep families together!
Psych evals are critical in
successful asylum cases
Earn up to $250 hour
- Reduced course fees for students, clinicians working at non-profit or gov't agencies and Survivor of Torture agencies. Unlicensed clinicians may take the course but cannot do evaluations until they are licensed.
- This course alone + my free monthly consults + SAMPLE REPORTS has many clinicians immediately working cases.
- 5 hour on-demand online course taken at your convenience- 5 CEU's (granted by CA Ass. of Marriage & Family Therapists)
- Referrals & Free Monthly Online Mentoring Support & Free Shared Resource Dropbox with sample evaluations.
- Compare with similar courses costing up to 10 times more than this comprehensive course
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Cost of Course
- Clinician Course Fee $139
Compare our $139 cost to similar webinar trainings that range from $900 to $2500. Positive feedback usually highlights that I provide the nuts and bolts: ie. interviewing, report writing & testifying, if needed. The free monthly Zoom Mentoring/Support Group sessions are appreciated also! At these free monthly meetings we may review redacted evaluation reports or discuss issues of interviewing, report writing & general questions or issues.
- Survivor of Torture Programs (SOT) - Or Agencies Working Primarily with Immigrants $49
Clinicians working primarily with torture, or primarily with immigrants warrant a lot of respect and deserve a big discount for their work. For this discount just email me the name of your agency & a brief description of it's mission to Marc@RealHope.com and ask for the discount coupon code to get that reduction.
Why take this course from Marc Sadoff, LCSW
- Trained over 250 clinicians. Many with no prior experience began working quickly after the training
- Conducted 135 Psychological Evaluations since my 4 years with the Program for Torture Victims in 1998
- Accepted 65 out of 65 times testifying in Immigration Court as expert in traumatic stress
- Conducted a 1/2 day training of Southern California Asylum Officers with colleagues from ptvla.org
- Acknowledged as having contributed to a book edited by the Physicians for Human Rights called "A Health Professional’s Guide To Medical And Psychological Evaluations Of Torture" published in 2001.
- My mission is to expand the pool of clinicians able to to do pro bono evaluations to help those who need and cannot afford to pay-------- AND TO PROVIDE LOW COST training to clinicians
- Ongoing Monthly Support & Mentoring- NO CHARGE FOR THESE MEETINGS
- Free Evaluation Resources Shared Dropbox Folder Membership
What's in the course
- Over 227 megabytes of evaluation resources: sample evaluations, links, tests, research, shared dropbox membership viewing & downloading.
- Getting referrals and working with the needs of the lawyer and client
- The role and attitude of the evaluator
- Preparation, forms, consults & reading prior to seeing client
- Working with different languages & translators
- Interviewing to elicit & develop data
- Meeting the diagnostic requirements & mindfulness of credibility & malingering
- Common client stories, symptoms & behaviors to look for
- Evaluation or treatment? Ethical issues in your evaluation
- Human & Sex Trafficking Visa cases, Hardship cases, Asylum, Torture & VAWA (Violence against Women) cases are described briefly
- Assembling the report- Technical tips for efficiently writing the report.
- While testifying is more and more rare currently, the course covers typical procedures and helps diminish common anxieties of testifying
- Setting fees and policies for your practice
- Free attendance at our monthly Zoom Mentoring & Support group, which I personally attend.