{"id":1770,"date":"2021-09-09T01:42:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T22:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.expertpsy.ro\/wordpress\/?page_id=1770"},"modified":"2021-09-09T01:42:45","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T22:42:45","slug":"psychological-aid-techniques-for-victims-of-human-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.expertpsy.ro\/wordpress\/index.php\/proiecte\/psychological-aid-techniques-for-victims-of-human-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychological Aid Techniques for Victims of Human Trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Erasmus+ Project&nbsp;2020-1-RO01-KA202-079778<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.expertpsy.ro\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/HT-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"404\" src=\"https:\/\/www.expertpsy.ro\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/HT-1-1024x404.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1772\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.expertpsy.ro\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/HT-1-1024x404.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.expertpsy.ro\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/HT-1-300x118.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.expertpsy.ro\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/HT-1-768x303.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.expertpsy.ro\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/HT-1.jpg 1215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Victims of human trafficking are often subjected to extreme psychological, physical, sexual and social abuse<\/strong>, which leads to severe mental and physical illness.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the&nbsp;guidelines of EU Directive 2011\/36 \/ EU on &#8222;preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims&#8221;, our project intends to increase the quality of psychological&nbsp;assistance to victims of human trafficking and other forms of exploitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The analysis of our needs included several sources of information, including Eurostat, the Ministries of Justice of the participating countries, embassies, departments for equal&nbsp;opportunities and revealed some criticisms in the participating countries that inspired us in proposing this project:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>&#8222;Collection of data on trafficking in human beings in the EU&#8221; (2018) showed that in the past years&nbsp;in the period 2015-2016, the victims registered in the EU were 20,532, 68% of them being women and 23% are children. 56% of them are subjected to sexual exploitation, 26% to work&nbsp;and 18% to other forms of exploitation.<\/li><li>In 2015-2016, Romania registered 2777 victims, Italy 1660, and Cyprus 856.<\/li><li>In Romania, the funds dedicated to the NGOs that support the victims decrease and also the criminal prosecution system shows a lower efficiency compared to the data from 2016&nbsp;to 2017.<\/li><li>The national systems differ in the methods of data collection and detection of the victims, for this reason, the transnational comparison should be done with caution. However, official&nbsp;data sources agree that the number of identified victims is underestimated.<\/li><li>The information collected shows the need to improve support strategies and identification methods for victims of human trafficking.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The main objective of our project is: increasing the quality of support for victims of human trafficking and other forms of exploitation.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The secondary objectives of the project are:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>increasing the quality of psychological support for victims of human trafficking and other forms of exploitation<\/li><li>improving the skills of victims of human trafficking in order to reduce their psychological suffering and related conditions<\/li><li>increasing the quality of other forms of support for victims of human trafficking and other forms of exploitation<\/li><li>increasing the quality of standardized procedures for providing psychological support<\/li><li>supporting law enforcement and personnel involved in crime prevention by understanding the key psychological aspects of crime (ie, mind manipulation, psychological profile of&nbsp;traffickers and victims, anthropological and cultural factors impacting on crime, communication strategies)<\/li><li>increasing cooperation between law enforcement institutions and NGOs in the field of support for victims \/ crime prevention<\/li><li>raising awareness of the general population and relevant target groups on the subject of human trafficking<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>These actions will be carried out by implementing, exploiting and disseminating the following intellectual outputs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The practical guide &#8222;Psychological methods for victim support&#8221; (O1), designed to teach the techniques of psychological help for victims of human trafficking, communication and&nbsp;support strategies dedicated to law enforcement and support staff; includes a dedicated international protocol<\/li><li>18-hour course support &#8221; Psychological Aid Techniques for Victims of Human Trafficking &#8221; (O2) containing detailed instructions for educators who want to reproduce the course, the&nbsp;model of skills for experts<\/li><li>The multilingual platform, which includes 12 lectures for victim support staff and 12 video-guided psychological exercises, designed for victims, translated into 4 languages (EN, RO,&nbsp;IT, GR) to facilitate access and exploitation by victims who can fully exploited the content in their national language.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Primary target groups: psychologists, victims of human trafficking and other forms of exploitation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Secondary target groups: law enforcement personnel, support staff, educators, health professionals, students<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This project includes an international partnership between organizations from 3 critical countries regarding human trafficking issues (RO, IT, CY). The complementary experience and&nbsp;funding of participating organizations and specific national law systems will enable us to implement more comprehensive actions to counter this transnational crime, which is&nbsp;considered a priority crime by Europol in the EU 2018-2021 policy cycle on organized international crime and serious (7704\/17; Europol, 2017).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Project partners<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our project includes a partnership consisting of 4 organizations:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>EXPERT PSY&nbsp; &#8211; Asociatia Psihologilor Specialisti, Bucharest, Romania<\/li><li>ZIVAC Group Central SRL, Bucharest, Romania<\/li><li>International Institute of Applied Psychology and Human&nbsp;Sciences, Bologna, Italy<\/li><li>Organization for Promotion of European Issues, Paphos, Cyprus<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erasmus+ Project&nbsp;2020-1-RO01-KA202-079778 Victims of human trafficking are often subjected to extreme psychological, physical, sexual and social abuse, which leads to severe mental and physical illness.&nbsp; According to the&nbsp;guidelines of EU Directive 2011\/36 \/ EU on &#8222;preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims&#8221;, our project intends to increase the quality of psychological&nbsp;assistance &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expertpsy.ro\/wordpress\/index.php\/proiecte\/psychological-aid-techniques-for-victims-of-human-trafficking\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continu\u0103 lectura <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Psychological Aid Techniques for Victims of Human Trafficking<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1761,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1770","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.expertpsy.ro\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.expertpsy.ro\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.expertpsy.ro\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.expertpsy.ro\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.expertpsy.ro\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1770"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.expertpsy.ro\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1774,"href":"https:\/\/www.expertpsy.ro\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1770\/revisions\/1774"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.expertpsy.ro\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.expertpsy.ro\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}