Human Trafficking 

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This course addresses the tragic topic of Human Trafficking. Included are studies on how it has become a large and major occurrence, and the assessment and trauma-informed treatment professionals can provide for the victims of this awful experience.

This course is an online, non-interactive, reading based, self-paced, and asynchronous course.

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• Define human trafficking and describe trafficking in the United states.
• Employ evidence-based mental health treatment for human trafficking victims.
• Discuss trauma bonding and examine its biological and psychological effect towards the victim.
• Analyze human trafficking in a global level.
• Critique the most recent health care structure and recommendation for survivors of human trafficking.

Course Outline:

• PART 1: Needs Assessment for Service Providers and Trafficking Victims


• Chapter 1: Introduction


• Chapter 2: Background and Understanding
  
  • Human Trafficking Defined
  • Trafficking in the United States
  • Responses to the Trafficking Problem
  • The Federal Legislative Response
  • Critiques of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000
  • Other Federal Responses to Trafficking
  • Other Responses to Trafficking
  
  
• Chapter 3:Methodology
  
  • Research Design
  • Study Sample
  • Data Collection
    
    • Telephone Survey
    • Focus Groups


• Chapter 4: Key Findings
  • Demographics


• Chapter 5: Recommendations for the Field


• PART 2: Treating the Hidden Wounds: Trauma Treatment and Mental Health Recovery for Victims of Human Trafficking
  • Study Overview
  • Trauma and Its Impact
  • Challenges in meeting the needs of trafficking victims who have experienced traumatic abuse.
  • Trauma Informed and Specific Services
  • Core components of Trauma Informed and Specific Services
  • Summary


• PART 3: Trafficking in Persons Report 2020


• Chapter 1: Trauma Bonding in Human Trafficking
  
  • Understanding Biology
  • Understanding Psychological coercion
  • Looking ahead


• Chapter 2: Faith-Based Efforts to Combat Human Trafficking


• Chapter 3: Human Trafficking of Athletes


• Chapter 4: Trafficking for Forced Labour; the Economy of Coercion
  • Different profiles trafficked in different economic sectors
  • Domestic work
  • Trafficking in agriculture
  • Domestic work
  • Risk factors
  • Out of sight; confined in remote areas with few or no inspections
  • Migration and precarious legal status
  • Lack of due diligence; intermediation, sub-contracting and involvement of legal companies


• Chapter 5: Extraterritorial Commercial Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse: Evolving Information and Improving Responses


• Chapter 6: Children: Easy Target
  
  • Different forms of child trafficking in different parts of the world
  • Risk factors for and drivers of child trafficking


• Chapter 7: Reengineering Health Care for Survivors of Human Trafficking


• Chapter 8: Traffickers Use of the Internet; Digital Hunting Fields
  • Digital Platforms and markets: The use of technology to advertise, recruit, and exploit
  • Advertisement
  • Recruitment
  • Internet-based exploitation
  • Evolution of the internet platform used
  • New geographies of trafficking in persons
  • Cyber flows
  • International flows
  • Domestic flows
  • Cyber traffickers
    
    • Cyber experts
  • Modus operandi: The strategies used
    
    • Hunting strategies
    • Fishing strategies
  
  
• Chapter 9: The Intersection of Human Trafficking and Addiction
  • Recommendations

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