Bonus Episode: Human Trafficking with Kalyani Gopal, PhD, HSPP

Speaking of Psychology

Kim Mills

Health & Fitness, Life Sciences, Science, Mental Health

4.3 • 781 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Human Trafficking occurs when individuals are economically exploited through force, fraud or coercion for labor or commercial sex. Worldwide, it is estimated that almost 25 million people are robbed of their freedom and human dignity through trafficking- trafficking is akin to slavery. It is difficult to determine how many people are trafficked in the US but it occurs here and includes both citizens and foreign nationals. Women, children, the economically vulnerable, persons with disabilities and runaway youth are disproportionately impacted. Understanding what trafficking is and how to respond is critical. Our guest for this episode is psychologist Kalyani Gopal, PhD, a clinical psychologist and Executive Director of SAFE (Sex Trafficking Awareness, Freedom and Empowerment). Join us online August 6-8 for APA 2020 Virtual. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, it's Caitlin Luna, host of Speaking of Psychology.
0:10.0	This episode was recorded live during APA 2019, our annual convention that was held in Chicago this year.
0:17.1	I was away on maternity leave during that time, so my colleague Dr. Lynn Buffka was a guest host.
0:22.6	We hope you enjoy the episode.
0:24.6	Hello, and welcome to Speaking of Psychology, a podcast from the American Psychological Association.
0:30.6	I'm Dr. Lynn Buffka, and I'm guest hosting this podcast from APA 2019 here in Chicago. Joining us today is Dr. Kalyani
0:40.4	Gopal, a clinical psychologist and the executive director of the organization Safe,
0:45.5	Sexual Trafficking Awareness, Freedom, and Empowerment. Thank you for being here. Welcome to the
0:52.4	show. Thank you, Lynn. Thank you for having me here.
0:56.0	I was hoping you could start by telling me a little bit about your background and how you came to be involved in this area of work.
1:02.0	Sure. I've been in the field for about 30 years now.
1:06.0	And I first got in the field of human trafficking probably when I was 17 or 18 without
1:11.9	knowing that I was working with victims of human trafficking.
1:14.6	Oh wow.
1:15.6	At this time I was in India.
1:16.6	I was a bachelor's degree student and I was doing my bachelor's degree paper on research paper
1:24.6	on women in jails.
1:26.6	So young women in jails.
1:28.3	So I went to this jail, which is called the Dihar Jail, it's a New Delhi, India.
1:32.3	And I went to the jail and I was collecting data and the girls were disappearing.
1:37.3	So I was the same age as those girls. I was 18, 17, 18, myself, and so were the girls.
1:42.3	They were all locked up. There's like 20 girls, 25 girls in a room, all locked up in that room.
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