Counseling Psychology: Human Trafficking Victims

Traffic Counseling
Social Work can take many different forms. Some Social Workers may work in the field, taking children from parents who are abusive or unfit to care for them; Some work in specialized fields working with the elderly, disabled, or with human trafficking victims. Human trafficking victims go through all kinds of different abuse and knowing how to help them without triggering an anxiety or panic attack involves a lot of training in both sensitivity training and counseling. Counseling Psychology is useful for Social Workers who work with Human Trafficking Victims in that they work with people for day to day problems, career explorations, and relationship issues.
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This often means that they have little to no education. Social interactions will be hard because they aren't familiar societal interactions and the adjustment to making decisions for oneself can be extremely overwhelming to someone who has never had a choice. It is important for someone working with a victim to understand the difficulties that the victim will face. Counseling Psychology deals a lot with helping people through everyday struggles and these struggles will be faced daily by a human trafficking victim. Not only does the social worker need to help integrate them back into society with everyday life, but he or she must help the victims explore possible
However, it is important for the social worker to remember that building meaningful and healthy relationships will not be easy and he or she has to counsel the victim in being careful. Human trafficking rings are worldwide and it takes a lot of people to run them. Victims often have to hide their identities to protect themselves from their captors; thus, forming relationships can be dangerous for a victim. The social worker must watch for signs that something isn't right with a relationship. Even if the people that the victim befriends, or falls for is deemed to be “safe” the individual probably does not know what a healthy relationship looks like and is likely to have severe trust issues that the social worker will have to help them overcome. He or she will have to help them through the process of learning what is and isn't okay to do and what is and isn't okay to accept having done to them. Interpersonal relationships are an important part of integrating back into society but it is important for the safety of the victims that they be willing to be counseled through them.
Social Workers use Counseling Psychology when working with victims of human trafficking by counseling them through the day to day struggles, finding appropriate careers, and through counseling them in relationships. Using counseling psychology,