Understanding child trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation: from residency training to intersectoral collaboration

Child trafficking is a public health problem affecting children locally. Its illegal nature, among other factors, renders inaccurate estimates of the problem. Even though a significant percentage of child trafficking victims will be evaluated by a health care worker while being exploited, education on this subject continues to be limited, if it exists at all, in child and adolescent psychiatry. For the assessing physician, there are no specific signs and symptoms to identify child trafficking, and children ’s inability to identify victimization compounds this.
Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tags: Clinical Perspectives 65 Source Type: research