Human Trafficking and the Multidimensional Impact of Sex Trafficking (2 credit hours)

Program Summary:  This course explores key considerations and concepts for understanding and identifying human trafficking and its impact. The first reading for this course describes the multidimensional impact of sex trafficking on survivors by highlighting first-hand insights from survivors.  The course examines the lasting challenges and consequences for survivors along with needed intervention strategies and support.  The second reading for this course offers key considerations and concepts for understanding and identifying human trafficking in the United States- both forced labor and sex trafficking.  The acts, means, and purpose framework is discussed.

This course is recommended for social workers, counselors, and therapists and is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice.

Reading 1: Unveiling the Multidimensional Impact of Sex Trafficking: Insights from Survivors by Claudia G. Interiano-Shiverdecker, Devon E. Romero, John J. S. Harrichand, Jessica Martin, and David J. Thompson  Publisher:  Marshall Digital Scholar

Reading 2:  About Human Trafficking / US Dept. of State

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Course Objectives:  To enhance professional practice, values, skills and knowledge by exploring key considerations and concepts for understanding and identifying human trafficking and its impact.

Learning Objectives:  Describe the impact of sex trafficking on survivors.  Identify key considerations and concepts for understanding and identifying human trafficking- both forced labor and sex trafficking- in the US.  Describe the ‘acts’, ‘means’, and ‘purpose’ framework.

Course Available Until: March 31, 2030.

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1: Reading 1// Due to the underground nature, limited community awareness, and survivors' reluctance to disclose, approximately  less than __________ of survivors of human trafficking cases in the world are ever identified (Bedbible Research Center, 2023).
 
 
 
 
2: The age of onset has been reported as young as under the age of 8, with most individuals around __________ years of age when trafficking began (Nichols et al., 2022).
 
 
 
 
3: Family members facilitate more than ___________ of child sex trafficking experiences (US Department of State, 2021).
 
 
 
 
4: According to case illustrations and empirical findings, which of the following is a mental health consequence of sex trafficking often experienced by survivors?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
5: Findings page 6//  The authors identified _________ themes illustrating the multidimensional impact of sex trafficking.
 
 
 
 
6: "I had an ovarian cyst, I had stomach ulcers, my appendix had bursted, my gallbladder wasn't doing well..." highlights which of the five identified themes?
 
 
 
 
 
7: "Especially if someone's been doing this for a long time... they don't have any experience doing anything else... they don't' have anything that they can put on a resume" describes which of the five themes?
 
 
 
 
 
8: "You want to trust people and you want to have people in your life but at the same time nobody seems safe.  You question... do I trust myself?" describes which of the five themes?
 
 
 
 
 
9: There is “deep deep deep rage, that is inside your body, and if you don't understand how to release that, um, you can be very dangerous" describes which of the five themes?
 
 
 
 
 
10: Reading 2//  When a person younger than 18 is used to perform a commercial sex act, it is a crime
 
 
 
 
11: Which of the following describes when the trafficker recruits, harbors, transports, provides, or obtains a person for labor or services?
 
 
 
12: Coercive schemes such as threats of force, debt manipulation, and withholding pay describe
 
 
 
13: The perpetrator's goal to exploit describes
 
 
 
14: In the case of child sex trafficking, the consent of the victim is never relevant as a child cannot legally consent to commercial sex.
 
 
15: Trafficking in person is a crime of
 
 

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G.M. Rydberg-Cox, MSW, LSCSW is the Continuing Education Director at Free State Social Work and responsible for the development of this course.  She received her Masters of Social Work in 1996 from the Jane Addams School of Social Work at the University of Illinois-Chicago and she has over 20 years of experience.  She has lived and worked as a social worker in Chicago, Boston, and Kansas City.  She has practiced for many years in the area of hospital/medical social work.  The reading materials for this course were developed by another organization.

Course Available Until: March 31, 2030.
Filed under: Human Trafficking