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This is a case study of a 17 year old who spent 3 of her teenage years being trafficked, this gives an incite into some of the emotional trauma she has been left with.
Research on the mental health of trafficked children is very limited, and very little is known about the use of mental health services by this group. This academic poster provides an overview of the impact trafficking may have on child's mental health (Ottisova et al., 2018). This poster aims to bring more awareness of mental health conditions in trafficked children and also analyse the reasoning's behind this.
I have low self-esteem. Feel like I’m only good for one thing, sex. I don’t see why someone, a man, would be interested in me and try to get to know me because I feel unworthy, dirty, tainted. Relationship with my family — because they don’t understand what I went through, I feel alone in that aspect.
Physical injuries: I have panic anxiety attacks. I’m always afraid I have AIDS because of the fact that I slept with so many men I didn’t know. I feel my heart is weak from all the drugs, and [I’m] afraid my cocaine use will negatively affect me in the future. All this has turned me into a hypochondriac. I wake up every day feeling sick to my stomach. Been so stressed this week I’ve been vomiting. I’m scared I’m going to go crazy. I frequently go to the doctors to get tested for everything. Because of him I was put in situations [where] I was beat up, robbed, assaulted by him and clients, and some of the girls he brought around. (Www2.gov.bc.ca, 2018)
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(Levine,2017) found that there was biological reasoning behind why some victims may not appear to seem traumatic or react in the ways we would expect, he said the high levels of psychological stress associated with sexual exploitation are associated with neurochemical and structural changes in the brain. It can be conjectured that the levels of trauma associated with sex trafficking cause changes in hypothalamic nuclei gene expression and altered release of, pro-opiomelanocortin, corticotropin-releasing hormone, adrenocorticotropic and cortisol, a key stress hormone.
"Physiological consequences of child trafficking"
was one study that was done by a group of scientists
which looked at a group of average 250,000 children and
hoped to identify trafficked children among them.
(Ottisova et al., 2018).
In order to help these children and young people who are at risk our healthcare must improve assistance and get proper health screenings for victims to try to understand an educate ourselves as best we can about what best possible solutions there are to help these people that are struggling. After analysing all the research studies I found I do think it is a start of trying to understand however, Considering the size of the problem, how its growing and the clear trauma that comes along with it, there is very little known about what these poor young people endure. We clearly need a better strategy to stop this and make a change.
Child trafficking is defined as the “recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt” of a child for the purpose of exploitation. This definition comes from the United Nations Palermo Protocol, which the UK and the majority of countries around the world have adopted, making it the internationally accepted definition of human trafficking. A child is defined by the Palermo Protocol and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child as any person under the age of 18. In the UK, trafficking is regarded as a form of modern slavery. (ECPAT UK, 2018)
(Rafferty,2008) did a similar test in an aftercare facility to find what the most common mental health condition was, she found an assortment of different emotional issues including
Which have all previously been linked to be effects of being trafficked as a child. However Yvonne also found that the girls also had highly sexualised behaviour tendencies even after years of therapy which does show the possibility that traumatic experiences like this may effect victims for the rest of their lives.
Child trafficking and modern slavery are child abuse. Children are recruited, moved or transported and then exploited, forced to work or sold.
1.child sexual exploitation
2.benefit fraud
3.forced marriage
4.domestic servitude such as cleaning, childcare, cooking
5.forced labour in factories or agriculture
criminal activity such as pickpocketing, begging, transporting drugs, working on cannabis farms, selling pirated DVDs and bag theft.
(NSPCC, 2018)
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Ottisova, L., Smith, P., Shetty, H., Stahl, D., Downs, J. and Oram, S. (2018). Psychological consequences of child trafficking: An historical cohort study of trafficked children in contact with secondary mental health services.
Rafferty, Y.(2008). The impact of trafficking on children: Psychological and social policy perspectives. Child development perspectives, 2(1), pp. 13-18.
Levine, J. (2017). Mental health issues in survivors of sex trafficking. Congent medicine, 4(1)
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