BookKanani E. Titchen, Elizabeth Miller, editors.
Summary: Human trafficking is an increasingly large issue in medicine, particularly for the adolescent population. The pubertal and neurologic development of early- and mid-adolescence may serves as a foothold for trauma bonds and human trafficking. To date, there are few case studies of human trafficking in the medical literature. More often, these cases are missed, and human trafficking patients are unlikely to disclose their victimization to their physicians for multiple reasons. As a result, physicians fail to ask key questions and fail to notice important red flags for human trafficking. Research shows that this is primarily due to a lack of medical training and awareness and a resultant denial on the part of many physicians that victims of human trafficking present to their clinics or specialties. This book provides clinicians with a case-based guide to scenarios they may encounter in their practice that involve human trafficking. These cases include those involving sex trafficking and labor trafficking; male and female and transgender victims; victims from a range of racial, ethnic, geographic and socioeconomic backgrounds; as well as presentations of adolescent and young adult victims to fields such as adolescent medicine, general pediatrics, neonatology, rheumatology, transplant medicine, and obstetrics-gynecology, in addition to the stereotypical presentations to emergency departments. Each case is followed by a discussion that highlights key aspects of human trafficking in adolescent and young adult patients. These discussions also reference the growing body of research on human trafficking, orient the reader to medico-legal aspects of reporting human trafficking in the adolescent and young adult populations, and feature useful questions, exercises, and resources to promote discussion among those medical professionals who interact with adolescent medicine and young adult patients. Written by physicians, legal advocates and lawyers, Medical Perspectives on Human Trafficking in Adolescents is the definitive guide for all clinicians who care for adolescent patients. It is also a useful resource for mental health professionals and social workers.
Contents:
Chapter 1 Human Trafficking: Definitions, Epidemiology, and Shifting Ground
chapter 2 Adolescent Medicine: Physical and Neurocognitive Development
chapter 3 Human Rights and Human Trafficking of Adolescents: Legal and Clinical Perspectives
chapter 4 Medical Perspectives on Human Trafficking in Adolescent Sex Trafficking: A Review
chapter 5 Medical Perspectives on Human Trafficking in Adolescent Sex Trafficking: A Review
chapter 6 Technology/Sexting/Social Media
chapter 7 Child Abuse
chapter 8 Human Trafficking in the Foster Care System
chapter 9 The Psychiatric Patient
chapter 10 Human Trafficking in Adolescents and Young Adults with Co-Existing Disordered Eating Behaviors
chapter 11 LGBTQIA+ Youth and Human Trafficking
chapter 12 Homelessness, Unstable Housing, and the Adolescent Patient
chapter 13 The Patient with Substance Use
chapter 14 Human Trafficking in Suburban and Rural America
chapter 15 Boys Are Trafficked Too?
chapter 16 Surgery and ObGyn: Beyond the Chief Complaint
chapter 17 The Subspecialties
chapter 18 Medicolegal Aspects and Mandatory Reporting
chapter 19 Survivor Insights
chapter 20 Educating Our Students
chapter 21 Building Resilience and Fostering Prevention.