Trauma-Informed Legal Advocacy: Medicolegal Approaches & Best Practices for Immigration Attorneys
Kimberly Morton Cuthrell
Abstract:Trauma-informed legal advocacy is a compelling approach to utilize when attorneys represent traumatized individuals. Trauma-informed legacy advocacy in partnership with medicolegal approaches is a growing field within the medical and legal professions with theoretical underpinnings still developing. Excessive conflicts, trauma, persecution, human rights violations, and war across the globe are associated with an increased efflux of individuals and families from affected areas and an increased influx of people … Show more
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