Skip to main content
Human Trafficking: A Treatment Guide for Mental Health Professionals

Human Trafficking: A Treatment Guide for Mental Health Professionals

Current price: $48.00
This product is not returnable.
Publication Date: August 10th, 2020
Publisher:
American Psychiatric Association Publishing
ISBN:
9781615372485
Pages:
284

Description

This is an educational and clinical resource for health care practitioners from any discipline who may encounter sex- or labor-trafficked persons. The book provides the background knowledge and frontline clinical strategies providers need to identify, relate to, and treat these psychologically wounded, yet resilient patients.

About the Author

John Coverdale, M.D., M.Ed., is professor of psychiatry and medical ethics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas; serves as deputy editor of Academic Psychiatry and associate editor of Academic Medicine; and co-directs the anti-human trafficking program at Baylor College of Medicine.Mollie R. Gordon, M.D., is an associate professor in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, where she is a co-director of the Anti-Human Trafficking Program. She is a co-chair of the American Medical Women's Association Physicians Against the Trafficking of Humans, is on the HEAL trafficking speakers bureau, and has opined for the Office of Trafficking in Persons.Phuong T. Nguyen, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine. He is director of psychology services at Ben Taub Hospital and the program director of the BCM Anti-Human Trafficking Program. Additionally, he serves as the training director for the BCM Psychology Internship Program and the Ben Taub Hospital/BCM Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, which includes the country's first formal psychology postdoctoral fellowship track specializing in anti-human trafficking work.