Human trafficking is an increasingly large issue in medicine, particularly for the adolescent population. The pubertal and neurologic development of early- and mid-adolescence may serves as a foothold for trauma bonds and human trafficking. To date, there are few case studies of human trafficking in the medical literature.  More often, these cases are missed, and human trafficking patients are unlikely to disclose their victimization to their physicians for multiple reasons.  As a result, physicians fail to ask key questions and fail to notice important red flags for human trafficking. Research shows that this is primarily due to a lack of medical training and awareness and a resultant denial on the part of many physicians that victims of human trafficking present to their clinics or specialties.

 

This book provides clinicians with a case-based guide to scenarios they may encounter in their practice that involve

 

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