Repair & Restore Vulnerable Lives
A handful of hours of your work can
save lives and keepÂ
families together!Â
Psych evals are often critical
in successful asylum cases
Pro bono **  Low  Fee  **  to $250/hr
- Fee is reduced for clinicians working at non-profit agencies. Join our nation-wide community.
- This course alone + my free monthly consults & SAMPLE REPORTS has many clinicians immediately working
- 5 hour course taken at your convenience- 5 CEU's
- Referrals & Free Monthly Online Mentoring Support & Free Shared Resource Dropbox
Browse a video sampling of topics covered in the course below
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Cost of Course
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Private Practice Clinician $95
Compare with similar live and webinar trainings that range from $300 to $900.
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Clinicians Working at Non-Profit & Government Agencies $65
Clinicians working at these agencies deserve a good discount. I simply expect you to use the honor system at the second page of the registration page. On the second page of the order form, before filling out other information, FIRST add the code ' non-profit ' to the coupon field.
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Clinicians Working at Survivor of Torture Programs & Agencies Working Primarily with Immigrants $39
Clinicians working primarily with torture, or primarily with immigrants, warrant a lot of respect and deserve an even bigger discount. For this discount just email me at Marc@RealHope.com and ask for the discount coupon code to get that reduction.
Why take this course from Marc Sadoff, LCSW
- Trained over 200 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
- FREE AT NO CHARGE- Ongoing Monthly Support & Mentoring
- Free Evaluation Resources Shared Dropbox Folder Membership
What's in the course
- Over 50 megabytes of evaluation resources: sample evaluations, links, tests, research, shared dropbox membership and more!
- 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? Â Ethical issues in your evaluation
- Human & Sex Trafficking Visa cases, Hardship cases, Asylum, Torture & VAWA (Violence against Women) cases are described
- 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