Diann Kelly
Adelphi University, USAPresentation Title:
Applying attachment theory principles to trauma-informed treatment of human trafficking victims
Abstract
Attachment theory posits that a maturing individual attaches to an adult who is capable of providing a secure base. This secure base influences internal working models of the mind that influence attachment behaviors of the maturing individual. The psychological coercion of human trafficking significantly damages a maturing individual’s internal working models and causes them extreme trauma and stunted emotional growth. The trafficked victim is likely to cling to his/her trafficker for security as the life of a trafficked individual is mired in violence, uncertainty and insecurity. This presentation dovetails attachment theory and trauma-informed growth. It speaks to the treatment being supportive and transformative to ensure the victim has a responsive, supportive secure base with which to grow from. Human trafficking is a low risk, high profit return enterprise. We must make the invisible, visible and protect victims from the snares of human trafficking.
Biography
Diann Kelly, PhD, LMSW is Associate Provost for Student Success and Professor in Social Work, and former Interim Dean at Adelphi University School of Social Work. She served as an American Council on Education Fellow at Shenandoah University in Winchester, VA. She authored many articles on civic engagement and service learning, as well as child and adolescent development. In addition to these publications, she is also the editor and author of Treating Young Veterans, a book on ways to service the veteran community, as well as other books on child abuse and neglect, social activism and contemporary slavery. She is working on a book on civic engagement. She is a former Fahs Beck Fellow with the New York Community Trust, in which she explored the social components of the Civil Rights Era and the influence of these components on civic engagement.
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