Nurse Practitioner
Volume 41, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 34-40

A multidisciplinary response to commercial sexual exploitation of children (Article)

Avila P.T.*
  • a Oregon Health and Science University, School of Nursing, CARES Northwest, Portland, OR, United States

Abstract

Commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) is associated with child abuse, neglect, poverty, homelessness, and societal causes. Sex trafficking is the participation in commercial sex acts in which force, fraud, or coercion occur. This article discusses the scope of CSEC and sex trafficking, and the necessary identification skills and medical evaluations needed to help these patients. Copyright © 2016 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.

Author Keywords

Child abuse Commercial sexual exploitation of children sex trafficking CSEC

Index Keywords

medical assessment Child Abuse, Sexual sexual behavior poverty human persuasive communication clinical study sex trafficking Humans Fraud sexual exploitation prostitution child sexual abuse human trafficking Child Abuse Sex Work neglect skill crime victim homelessness Crime Victims Child
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85010036618&doi=10.1097%2f01.NPR.0000502788.20243.0a&partnerID=40&md5=7257f11463dd018dc3509b25bcdc14d7
DOI: 10.1097/01.NPR.0000502788.20243.0a
ISSN: 03611817
Cited by: 3
Original Language: English