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Psychiatry's Role in the Management of Human Trafficking Victims: An Integrated Care Approach
Psychology Faculty Publications
  • Mollie Gordon, Baylor College of Medicine
  • Temilola Salami, Sam Houston State University
  • John Coverdale, Baylor College of Medicine
  • Phuong T. Nguyen, Baylor College of Medicine
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-1-2018
Abstract

Human trafficking is an outrageous human rights violation with potentially devastating consequences to individuals and the public health. Victims are often underrecognized and there are few guidelines for how best to identify, care for, and safely reintegrate victims back into the community. The purpose of this paper is to propose a multifaceted, interdisciplinary, and interprofessional guideline for providing care and services to human trafficking victims. Databases such as PubMed and PsycINFO were searched for papers outlining human trafficking programs with a primary psychiatric focus. No integrated care models that provide decisional guidelines at different points of intervention for human trafficking patients and that highlight the important role of psychiatric consultation were found. Psychiatrists and psychologists are pivotal to an integrated care approach in health care settings. The provision of such a comprehensive and integrated model of care should facilitate the identification of victims, promote their recovery, and reduce the possibility of retraumatization.

Citation Information
Mollie Gordon, Temilola Salami, John Coverdale and Phuong T. Nguyen. "Psychiatry's Role in the Management of Human Trafficking Victims: An Integrated Care Approach" (2018)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/temilola-salami/23/