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Working With Immigrant Children

When working with children, with their unique developmental characteristics, a different set of relational and interviewing techniques are required than when working with adults. Immigrant children especially, having come from a completely different cultural millieu, require an even more specialized set of skills.

 

• Working with Children Traumatized by Homicide:
  Assessing and Interviewing the Child Co-Victim

 

• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services:
  Interviewing Immigrant Children About Maltreatment

 

• National Conference of State Legislatures:
  Unaccompanied Immigrant Minors

 

• Congressional Research Service:
  Unaccompanied Alien Children

 

• The ChildTrauma Academy:
  Helping Traumatized Children

 

• National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention:
  Mental Health and Development