Role of Social Workers Sex Trafficking

Question: Describe about the Role of Social Workers for Sex Trafficking. Answer: Introduction Sex trafficking is an international crime of violence against children and women. Sex traffickers generally uses threats, violence and debt bondage in order to compel both adults and children for engaging in various commercial sex acts (Androff, 2011). Vulnerable populations are mainly targeted by various traffickers and thus it is very much important to save the people from being targeted. Social workers play a significant role in providing potential identification as well intervention to victims of sex trafficking (Berthold, 2015). This research mainly supported sex trafficking from the perspective of different researchers. The report discusses importance of the topic, role of social work in sex trafficking and the steps, which need to be taken by social workers while dealing with the victims of Sex trafficking. Literature Review According to Coleman (2016), multiple results are related with human trafficking and there is very little evidence-basedguidance available for health providers in assessing and meeting the requirements of the victims. Evidence for identifying, providing proper care is very rare (Dovydaitis, 2010). In order to achieve integration that is community based the survivors of sex trafficking require unconditional access by providing immigration relief and human services, which includes medical care, food and shelter. Researchers have focused on some of the well-known practices in order to identify the victims of sex trafficking (Go?dziak MacDonnell, 2007). To identify the victims, social workers have to face huge challenges, which include lack of reporting from the victims, status of immigration, conflicting terminology between prostitution and sex trafficking (McNiel, Held Busch-Armendariz, 2014). It is impossible for social workers to provide typical services to victims and recognizing them as the sex-trafficked victims. It is stated by Hemmings et al. (2016), that there is huge gap present in of human trafficking. It includes all sections of people mainly due to labor exploitation. Findings from different research analyses that it is associated with some serious health issues. The research also shows that the people who are trafficked have different unique requirements and the modalities that are associated with the social workers needs to coordinate with different situations (Gibbs et al. 2015). It is indicated from different research findings that the people get benefit from various perspectives. The professional who helps the victims get the benefit from their unique commitment and from their knowledge of integrity that create a collaborative process. It is stated byOBrien (2015), that there are four main themes that helps in contributing to the setup of several people who have lack of knowledge, physical confinement and isolation. Fear is imposed by injuries due to physical assault, neglecting medical treatment, lack of information and knowledge about various types of alternative (Johnson, 2012). Isolation is defined as a vulnerability, which is used by the perpetrator for controlling the victims. Dependency factor of the victim rises due to isolation. Having control on the Victims passport, money, documents and many other things, generates physical and physiological imprisonment. The victims can survive for more than seven years after trafficking. The identification of the victims and their medical treatment is considered as one of the focal point of recovery and wellness (Oram et al. 2012). The victims who are not identified by the social workers suffer from various types of traumatic experiences, which include alcohol and drugs, criminal record, abortion and many more (Beck et al., 2015). The experiences intensify and thus it has a long lasting effect on the lives of the victim. It is stated by Busch-Armendariz, Nsonwu and Cook Heffron (2011), that the contemporary slavery violates various rights, which mainly include human rights and social work ethics. The contents of the Article 4 that contains information about the Universal declaration of human rights helps in prohibiting forced labor work, slavery and any more. The different social development strategies help in increasing the capability of the survivors in order to minimize their vulnerability to be re-slaved in order to facilitate their recovery. According to Androff (2011), human being trafficking is extent in all the segments of demography. There are number of situations that help in guiding towards a high defenselessness in order to discriminate human trafficking. The entire researches have focused on two questions (Howard, 2015). The first question demonstrates the primary as well as long run obstacle or challenges for the fatalities of human trafficking. The second question focuses on various requirements of the victims (Berthold, 2015). The research paper has mainly focused on various findings that is associated with various challenges and vulnerabilities It is stated by Dovydaitis (2010), that little findings are done for identifying the victims of sex-trafficking. The main focus is to develop several strategies that would be helpful in spreading awareness and helps social workers in identifying the victims of sex-trafficking effectively (Coleman, 2016). The victims have suffered due to sex trafficking should be provided with emotional and cultural support. Coordination is very required between the health providers and different statutory organizations (Go?dziak MacDonnell, 2007). The future research on this topic is helpful in generating empirical evidence in order to develop indicators of trafficking. Social workers help in planning programs in order to deliver a methodology to the victim. The social worker tests the desires of the victims and the communal power based methods delivers benefit by increasing the cultural capability (Coleman, 2016). Importance of the topic The topic helps in understanding the effect of victimization including the factors of assault, trauma and vulnerability (Hodge, 2014). The findings suggests that sex trafficking is associated with various types of serious health problems which suggests that the people who are trafficked require a coordinated help as well as response by the providers of health care. Therefore, according to Johnson (2012), presently the focus is on the development of effective strategies of prevention that is related with the long-term and short-term legal, health services for the survivors. Role of social Workers It is stated by OBrien (2015), that the social workers play an important role in assessing as well as providing treatment to the victims. The social workers with the help of their knowledge, and experienceidentify the victims of sex trafficking. The work of the social workers has increased the level of awareness that is very much helpful in bridging the gap. The gap exists in decreasing the challenges, which is associated with the identification of victims (Palmer, 2010). The social workers play an important role in assessing as well as providing various medical services to the victims. The knowledge, ability plays a significant role in identifying the sex trafficking victims among various clients (Bergquist, 2015). Therefore, the level of awareness which enhanced among the social workers is very much helpful in bridging the gap which is related with the identification of victim. Therefore the social workers play a significant role in identifying the victims of sex-trafficking and th us in providing them proper medical treatment as well as help. Importance of the topic from social perspective It is stated by Konstantopoulos et al. (2013), that for achieving perfect as well as successful integration in the community, trafficking survivors needs unconditional access for providing relief and human services which includes food, medical are, shelter and many more (Go?dziak MacDonnell, 2007). Social workers help in providing complex and encumbered system which includes many cases that are associated with the public assistance and social security. Social workers help in designing programs in order to provide an approach to the victim (Coleman, 2016).The social worker examines the requirements of the victims and the social strength based approaches provides benefit by enhancing the cultural competence. Steps need to be taken by social workers while dealing with the victims of Sex trafficking The social workers must follow few steps while dealing with the victims of sex trafficking. The social workers need to play an important role while providing both the emotional as well as practical services to the (Berthold, 2015).They must identify the sex trafficking victims by using their knowledge and experience (Hodge, 2014). All the different types of roles that will be beneficial for the victims are played by the social workers. The emotional restoration which is provided by the social workers is trauma sensitive and it will create a positive impact on the survivors journey for healing their wholeness. Conclusion Social workers play a significant role is accessing as well as providing treatment to the victims of sex trafficking. The main key components in identifying and assessing the victims of sex trafficking includes knowledge of the social workers, their training and capacity for accessing the victims. In order to help the social workers for providing medical services to the victims, each organizations or enterprises must provide tools, training, protocols to the social workers that helps in allowing them to identify and treat the victims of sex trafficking. In order to integrate proper education and training, professionals of health care are able to improve their attitude, knowledge, and many more focusing their responsibilities for identifying the sex trafficking victims. References Androff, D. K. (2011). The problem of contemporary slavery: An international human rights challenge for social work.International Social Work,54(2), 209-222. Berthold, S. M. (2015). 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