Psychological aspects of trauma and resiliency in victims of human trafficking

The human trafficking is a social phenomenon with pathological aspects and with a large variety of manifestation within the contemporary world. Notwithstanding of the goal and the personal characteristics of the victims, within the human trafficking we always find the relationship between the owner and the slave. Human trafficking is a relationship based on two poles: the perpetrator and the victim. When the perpetrator is in the focus of the law, the victim is in need of complex rehabilitation. This rehabilitation starts with the enforcement of human rights and the circumscription of the victim within the framework which protects the human dignity and it continues with the efforts to understand the bio-psychosocio-cultural aspects of the trauma and the enhancement of person's resiliency. Human trafficking raises the costs and the threats of the democracy in the contemporary world. During the last years, the increased attention to the phenomenon, as well as the International, European and national social policies and the special structures aimed to implement the policies come together on the objective to stop the phenomenon. Our presentation will be focused on the psychological aspects of the victim and the victim's family. We also intend to present the dynamic and the types of manifestations of the phenomenon during the last years. The objective of this paper is to raise the attention of participants at the psychological trauma and PTSD's aspects involved in human trafficking as well as to the possible resilience of some victims.