IAFF 6138 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
13 Oct 2016
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Health care professionals need to address human trafficking cases differently: need to strengthen the understanding of human trafficking and what they can do. The importance of the health care professionals in combating trafficking: trafficked persons will come in contact with a health care professional somewhere along the line, so these professionals should be trained to recognize trafficking cases. Vulnerable groups: not having equal access to the social services/opportunities. Risks: poverty, marginalized group, not understanding reporting and criminal justice system. Victims of gender-based violence; intimately related with human trafficking: happening within the ethnic communities (close-knit ethnicities): immigrant ethnic communities within the us harder to address. Physical & mental trauma before and during exploitation. Red flags: trafficked persons present at facility with: controlling individual, vaginal/rectal trauma, ptsd, etc. Influence of the mental trauma: psychological & situational. Slavery = people cannot leave the situation (no freedom physically & mentally) Trafficked = people can leave physically, but mentally not able to.
