Human Trafficking: A Global Health Emergency - Perspectives from Nursing, Criminal Justice, and the Social Sciences

This book presents various forms of human trafficking, a growing trend in the exploitation of large numbers of people with concurrent public health, socio-cultural, and economic costs to countries burdened with the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. 
 
Edited by psychiatric-mental health nurses and an applied anthropologist, this volume covers all forms of human trafficking: sex trafficking, forced labor, forced marriage, baby trafficking, organ trafficking, child marriage, and child soldiers with a global public health and policy focus. As such, it fills a gap in human trafficking knowledge and is built on courses springing up around the United States in multiple disciplines. Medical, mental health, and social work interventions are included as well as information about programs with documented outcomes.
 
Each chapter includes state of the art of knowledge with case studies illustrating specific focal ideas, discussion, questions and exercises in order to help readers retain and reinforce chapter material. This textbook will be useful in the disciplines of nursing, medicine, public health, social work, and policy making, as well as in disciplines in which human trafficking is a current interest, such as law, criminal justice, and education.

Mary de Chesnay, PhD, RN, PMH-BC, FAAN, is a psychiatric-mental health nurse and applied anthropologist with 50 years of experience as a therapist, teacher, and researcher. She maintained a private practice and held academic positions at all ranks, retiring as Professor Emerita. She left the deanship at Duquesne University to become the first holder of the Jean Bushman Chair at Seattle University and focused on vulnerable populations. She worked with about 300 survivors of child sexual abuse, including those trafficked for the sex trade. She is a well-known and respected author and book editor.
 
Donna Sabella, MEd, MSN, PhD, CRNP, PMHNP-BC, is a board-certified psychiatric nurse practitioner, faculty at UMass Amherst College of Nursing where she served as the Seedworks Endowed Associate Professor of Social Justice in the College of Nursing and is presently the Executive Director of Delaware's Anti- Trafficking Action Council. She was one of the first nurses to offer courses and a certificate in human trafficking at various universities. She has numerous publications and presentations on human trafficking. She also conducted groups for prostituted and trafficked women in the Philadelphia Prison System, was a co-founder and first Director for Dawn's Place, a residential treatment program for trafficked women in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and is a co-founder and Associate Editor for the Journal of Human Trafficking.