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This is the first comprehensive text to critically analyze the current research and best practices for working with children, adolescents, and adults involved in sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation (CSE). With a unique, research-based focus on practice, the book synthesizes the key areas related to working with victims of sex trafficking/CSE including prevention, identification, practice techniques, and program design as well as suggested interagency, criminal justice, and legislative responses. Best practices are examined through an intersectional, trauma-informed lens that adheres to principles of cultural competency.
Highlights include:
The book analyzes the commonly reported indicators of sex trafficking/CSE, how to conduct a screening with potential victims, and direct practice techniques with various populations including evidence-based trauma treatments. Other chapters guide the reader in implementing trauma-informed programming in a variety of organizational settings, advocating for sex trafficking and CSE survivors within the criminal justice system, and implementing effective prevention and outreach programs in schools and community organizations.
Intended as a text for upper-division courses on sex or human trafficking, interventions with women, trauma interventions, violence against women, or gender and crime taught in social work, psychology, counseling, and criminal justice, this book is also an ideal resource for practitioners working with victims of sex trafficking and CSE in a variety of settings including child protective services, the criminal justice system, health care, schools, and more.
Author: Lara Gerassi, Andrea J. Nichols
ISBN-10: 082614974X
ISBN-13: 9780826149749
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Language: English
Published: 09/19/2017
Pages: 266
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.56w x 0.56d
Lara B. Gerassi, Ph.D., LCSW is an assistant professor at the School of Social Work and an affiliate of the Department of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. She earned her Ph.D. from the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, where she was a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) TranSTAR T32 pre-doctoral fellow. She is the author of numerous publications and book chapters focusing on sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation and has presented her work at national conferences including the Society for Social Work Research and Council on Social Work Education.
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