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Specialized Training Manual on Psychosocial Counseling for Trafficked Youth - Handling the Trauma of Sexual Exploitation

Document number
1723
Date
2002
Title
Specialized Training Manual on Psychosocial Counseling for Trafficked Youth - Handling the Trauma of Sexual Exploitation
Author/publisher
International Labour Office (ILO)
Availability
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Document type(s)
Training Material/Resources,
Keywords
Assistance, Residence permit, Reintegration, Social assistance, Rehabilitation, Reflection period, Repatriation; Return; Redress, Protection, Social inclusion; Residence permit;
Summary
The manual is divided into different sessions, each dealing with a topic that is relevant for counseling traffickedyouth. Each session describes in detail the activities to be conducted and all the materials needed, transparenciesfor giving lectures and handouts for additional reading materials for the participants.This manual is designed for a training course for ILO-IPEC - supported NGOs that work for trafficked youth, withthe aim to integrate improved psychosocial counseling in their rehabilitation process of victims. However, themanual can be more generally used, by extracting sessions or as a whole, for different training courses onpsychosocial counseling, as well as for different groups of trauma survivors, such as children withdrawn fromother worst forms of child labour.Trafficking of youth occurs for different purposes, most notably for sexual exploitation. The manual has beendesigned with this particular group of victims of trafficking in mind.
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