Alexander, David A, and Susan Klein. “Kidnapping and Hostage-Taking: A Review of Effects, Coping and Resilience.” Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 102.1 (2009): 16–21. PMC. Web. 4 Dec. 2015. In this article, David Alexander describes the background, effects, coping strategies, and issues requiring more research of the event of and events surrounding an abduction. The largest studied reactions include the cognitive, emotional, and social relations to a trauma. The main point of this article is to inform the reader about the complications of being held hostage and how it affects the victim’s life afterwards. When a captor interacts with their hostage, they are creating a false bond that is hard to be broken because
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Rebecca Clay explores the awareness and prevention of human trafficking while including a subsection about how survivors cope after being rescued. She writes about how many people walk around their everyday life looking at victims of human trafficking without realizing it. The reason that these seemingly independent victims do not leave their traffickers is because they are being brainwashed. They can be tricked into thinking that they are performing these tasks to help ‘pay for the rent’, or they will have a horrible life for threatening to leave. So the victims stay due to their dependance on basic necessities and a false sense of love and …show more content…
In this article, he analyzes two case examples of Abductees. After being introduced back into society, these two victims had to undergo many therapy sessions, individually and including family members. On case wrote about a girl abducted by her mom. Her mother changed her appearance and failed to provide many basic necessities, including education. When she was discovered, she was ‘emotionally attached to her mother’, and had lost all trust in her father due to the lies she was subjected to. Another victim was willing to leave her home to be with a parent. She was abused during this period in her life, which flowed into her academics. She wanted attention and fell onto the track of drugs and
Rebecca Clay explores the awareness and prevention of human trafficking while including a subsection about how survivors cope after being rescued. She writes about how many people walk around their everyday life looking at victims of human trafficking without realizing it. The reason that these seemingly independent victims do not leave their traffickers is because they are being brainwashed. They can be tricked into thinking that they are performing these tasks to help ‘pay for the rent’, or they will have a horrible life for threatening to leave. So the victims stay due to their dependance on basic necessities and a false sense of love and …show more content…
In this article, he analyzes two case examples of Abductees. After being introduced back into society, these two victims had to undergo many therapy sessions, individually and including family members. On case wrote about a girl abducted by her mom. Her mother changed her appearance and failed to provide many basic necessities, including education. When she was discovered, she was ‘emotionally attached to her mother’, and had lost all trust in her father due to the lies she was subjected to. Another victim was willing to leave her home to be with a parent. She was abused during this period in her life, which flowed into her academics. She wanted attention and fell onto the track of drugs and