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Title
Asylum medicine : a clinician's guide / Katherine C. McKenzie, editor.
ISBN
9783030815806 (electronic bk.)
3030815803 (electronic bk.)
303081579X
9783030815790
Imprint
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2022]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-030-81580-6 doi
Call Number
RA564.9.R43
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.1086914
Summary
Asylum medicine, a field encompassing medical forensic evaluations of asylum seekers, is an emerging discipline in healthcare. In a time of record global displacement due to human rights violations, conflict and persecution, interest in the medical and psychological evaluation of individuals subjected to torture and other ill-treatment is high. Health professionals are uniquely qualified to use their skills to make contributions to a group of vulnerable individuals fleeing danger and death in their home countries. Health professionals involved in asylum medicine perform medical and psychological forensic evaluations of asylum seekers. Their educational background prepares them to examine and describe physical and emotional scars related to trauma, and further training allows them to assess these scars in the context of persecution, describe them in a medical-legal affidavit and support these findings with testimony. Providers of asylum medicine are often involved in advocacy, as many governments become increasingly hostile to asylum seekers. Books on human rights exist, but there is no authoritative text of asylum medicine. This book presents a comprehensive overview of asylum medicine, with emphasis on the historical and legal background of asylum law, best practices for performing asylum examinations, challenges of examining detained asylum seekers, education of trainees and advocacy. Written by experts in the field, Asylum Medicine: A Clinician's Guide is a first of its kind resource for health care providers who practice asylum medicine.
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Includes index.
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Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 16, 2021).
Historical Background and Asylum Law
Preparing for the Evaluation
Physical Evaluation of Asylum Seekers
Forensic Psychological Evaluation of Asylum Seekers
Evaluating Pediatric Asylum Seekers
Evaluation of Detainees
Evaluating Survivors of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
Evaluating LGBTQ Asylum Seekers
Performing Remote Evaluations
Best Practices for Writing Affidavits and Preparing for Testimony
Teaching and Learning Asylum Medicine
Advocacy
Finding Internal Balance: An Introduction to Secondary Trauma and Resilience for Asylum Evaluators
Appendix 1 Scars of Torture and Ill-Treatment
Appendix 2 Body Diagrams
Appendix 3 Resources.
