Background

Previous research points to the many challenges that help providers who support commercially sexually exploited youth encounter in their professional work—yet little is known about how they overcome these challenges, particularly with regard to youth of diverse social backgrounds.

Objective

The present study applied the conceptual frameworks of help-seeking and intersectionality to explore the professional practices that help providers employ when forging a help relationship with commercially sexually exploited youth.

Participants and setting

Israeli help providers who work with commercially sexually exploited youth at various social services.

Method

In-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted, and analyzed using constructivist grounded theory approach.

Findings

We identified six major guiding principles that support the participants' processes of forging a help relationship with commercially sexually exploited youth: Do not assume that the youth view their involvement in commercial sexual exploitation as problematic; Continuously attempt to gain the youth's trust; Start from the point where the youth are; Be available at all times, and maintain a steady long-term relationship; Treat commercially sexually exploited youth as agentic individuals and encourage them to lead the process of establishing a help relationship; Similarity in social backgrounds of help providers and commercially sexually exploited youth promotes youth's engagement in the help relationship.

Conclusions

Assuming the co-existence of benefit and harm in commercial sexual exploitation is essential to forging a help relationship with the youth. Applying the intersectional lens to practice in this field can help preserve the delicate balance between victimhood and agency, thereby enhancing help processes.

中文翻译：

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与遭受商业性剥削的青少年建立帮助关系：以色列帮助提供者的观点

背景

先前的研究指出，帮助那些支持遭受商业性剥削的青少年的服务提供者在其专业工作中遇到了许多挑战，但人们对他们如何克服这些挑战知之甚少，特别是针对不同社会背景的青少年。

客观的

本研究应用寻求帮助和交叉性的概念框架来探索在与遭受商业性剥削的青少年建立帮助关系时帮助提供者采用的专业实践。

参加者及设置

以色列帮助各种社会服务机构中与遭受商业性剥削的青少年合作的提供者。

方法

进行了深入的半结构化访谈，并使用建构主义扎根理论方法进行了分析。

发现

我们确定了六项主要指导原则，支持参与者与遭受商业性剥削的青少年建立帮助关系： 不要认为青少年认为他们参与商业性剥削是有问题的；不断努力赢得青少年的信任；从青春所在开始；随时待命，并保持稳定的长期合作关系；将遭受商业性性剥削的青少年视为有行动力的个体，并鼓励他们主导建立帮助关系的过程；帮助提供者和遭受商业性剥削的青年的社会背景相似，促进了青年参与帮助关系。

结论

假设商业性剥削的利益和危害并存对于与青少年建立帮助关系至关重要。将交叉视角应用于这一领域的实践可以帮助保持受害者和代理之间的微妙平衡，从而增强帮助过程。