Trauma and Trauma-Informed Care: How Prostitution Diversion Programs Miss the Mark
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2024-01-19
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Wiechelt, Shelly. “Trauma and Trauma-Informed Care: How Prostitution Diversion Programs Miss the Mark.” Journal of Health Care Law and Policy 27, no. 1 (January 1, 2024). https://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/jhclp/vol27/iss1/3.
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This paper is a summary of a panel presentation Trauma and Trauma-Informed Care: Prostitution Diversion Programs, given at the Journal of Health Care Law and Policy’s Spring 2023 Symposium, Uneasy Alignments: The Mental Health Turn in the American Legal System. The Article will introduce trauma and other trauma related concepts including PTSD, complex-trauma, and trauma-informed care and consider the challenges inherent in addressing trauma in a trauma- informed manner via prostitution diversion programs.