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Child sex trafficking in the United States: Challenges for the healthcare provider. [PDF]

PLoS Medicine, 2017
V. Jordan Greenbaum discusses ways healthcare providers can identify children trafficked for sex to provide for their physical and mental health and their social and educational needs.
V Jordan Greenbaum
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Child Sex Trafficking: Strategies for Identification, Counseling, and Advocacy. [PDF]

Int J Adv Couns, 2021
The human rights violation of sex trafficking continues to occur in the United States at alarming rates. Although sex trafficking affects individuals across various demographic groups, this crime disproportionately affects children. Counselors who work with children and adolescents are uniquely positioned to identify, support, and advocate on behalf of
Browne-James L, Litam SDA, McRae L.
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Dismantling silos: cross-sectoral response to combating child sex trafficking and online child sexual exploitation [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
Until recently, child sex trafficking and online child sexual exploitation were treated as distinct crimes against children, leading to siloed responses from victim services, legal and policy frameworks, and law enforcement.
Jennifer Martin, Kiaras Gharabaghi, Meghan Donevan, Meghan Donevan   +3 more
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Mental health of college sex workers [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health
This study explored the impact of developmental and recent traumas on PTSD, anxiety, and depression among a sample of university students (N = 410), including students who engaged in sex work during college. Using linear and hierarchical regressions, the
Stacie Lefeavers, Abigail H. Conley, Karen Chartier, Karen Chartier, Ananda Amstadter, Danielle M. Dick, Emily Lilley, Renolda Gelzinis, Anne Morris, Katie Bountress, Amy E. Adkins, Nathaniel Thomas, Zoe Neale, Kimberly Pedersen, Thomas Bannard, Seung B. Cho, Kimberly Pedersen, Amy E. Adkins, Peter Barr, Holly Byers, Erin C. Berenz, Erin Caraway, Seung B. Cho, James S. Clifford, Megan Cooke, Elizabeth Do, Alexis C. Edwards, Neeru Goyal, Laura M. Hack, Lisa J. Halberstadt, Sage Hawn, Sally Kuo, Emily Lasko, Jennifer Lent, Mackenzie Lind, Elizabeth Long, Alexandra Martelli, Jacquelyn L. Meyers, Kerry Mitchell, Ashlee Moore, Arden Moscati, Aashir Nasim, Zoe Neale, Jill Opalesky, Cassie Overstreet, A. Christian Pais, Tarah Raldiris, Jessica Salvatore, Jeanne Savage, Rebecca Smith, David Sosnowski, Jinni Su, Nathaniel Thomas, Chloe Walker, Marcie Walsh, Teresa Willoughby, Madison Woodroof, Jia Yan   +57 more
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Online labor trafficking and machine learning: A scoping review and research agenda. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
Labor trafficking increasingly intersects with online environments, yet there are limited computational detection approaches. To examine existing methods and their potential applications, this article reviews literature that applies or advocates ...
Rebaka Pradhan, Onn Shehory
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Addressing a Gap in Medical School Training: Identifying and Caring for Human Trafficking Survivors Using Trauma-Informed Care

MedEdPORTAL, 2023
Introduction Human trafficking (HT) is a substantial public health problem, and health care workers are uniquely positioned to help identify and care for survivors. Despite this fact, few medical schools incorporate HT training using trauma-informed care
EmmaRose F. Brennan, Artemis Markopoulos, Jaclyn Rodriguez, Neeral K. Sheth, Nupur Shah   +4 more
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How trauma related to sex trafficking challenges parenting: Insights from Mexican and Central American survivors in the US.

PLoS ONE, 2021
Sex trafficking, a form of human trafficking for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation, with a global prevalence of 4.5 million, has pervasive effects in the mental and physical health of survivors.
Marti Marti Castaner, Rachel Fowler, Cassie Landers, Lori Cohen, Manuela Orjuela   +4 more
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Understanding the motivations and activities of transnational advocacy networks against child sex trafficking in the Mekong Subregion: The value of cosmopolitan globalisation theory

Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2013
Child sex trafficking has become one of the most highly publicised social issues of our time and, due to its global nature, transnational anti-trafficking advocacy networks are well placed and central to lead campaigns against it.
Deanna Davy
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Exploitasi Seks Terhadap Anak Perempuan yang Menjadi Korban Perdagangan Orang di Lokasi Prostitusi

Humaniora, 2011
The special focus of this paper is the fenomen of girls who become sex workers. They are children under age of 18 year.  This paper will show that the girls who become sex workers were human trafficking victim for sex commercial purpose.
Yustinus Suhardi Ruman
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Child Labor Trafficking in the United States: A Hidden Crime

Social Inclusion, 2017
Emerging research brings more attention to labor trafficking in the United States. However, very few efforts have been made to better understand or respond to labor trafficking of minors.
Katherine Kaufka Walts
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