History
An immigration policy had good intentions, but ended up having detrimental effects on immigration.
Voting Rights Act
This many children were separated from their families at the border
3000
This is the most important first step when building a therapeutic relationship with a child who has experienced parental detention and may fear authority figures.
What is establishing safety
The Refugee Ban and Travel Ban are examples of this type of governance
Governance by Executive order
Parental detention causes distress in children from this group.
legal citizens
This is the most important predictor of positive therapy outcomes and includes bond, goals, and tasks between clinician and client.
What is the therapeutic alliance?
The treaty that forced the surrender of approximately 529,000 square miles of Mexico's territory to the USA
the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
This year saw a significant drop in parental engagement in school
2025
These are two major strengths of formal assessments that make them useful for diagnosis, research, and insurance documentation.
What are objectivity and reliability/validity?
When a child asks, “Are they going to take me too?”, a trauma-informed clinician responds by doing this instead of minimizing or giving false reassurance.
What is validating the child’s fear?
A consequence to immigrant families resulting from The Big Beautiful Bill.
$170 billion for homeland security enforcement
$45 billion towards the construction of new detention centers
Noncitizen restrictions on eligibility for public health benefits, Medicaid, and SNAP.
This term means the inhibition or discouragement of the legitimate exercise of natural or legal rights (especially free speech) by the threat of legal sanction, surveillance, or social retaliation
the chilling effect
This limitation refers to the inability of formal assessments to fully capture cultural context, family dynamics, and immigration-related stress.
What is the lack of cultural responsiveness?
In Hispanic/Latino culture, this value may lead a child to appear compliant or quiet in session, even when trust has not yet been established.
What is respeto?