Adolescents' motives for selling sex - A Swedish national study

Cecilia Fredlund

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Linköping University

Is a physician making her specialization in psychiatry in the University hospital of Linköping, Sweden. She was admitted in 2014 as Ph.D. student at the Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine/Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Linköping University, Sweden. The current thesis is about Adolescents Selling Sex and adolescents using Sex as Self-Injury.

Abstract

Background: Selling sex among adolescents has been associated to sexual, physical and emotional abuse, poor mental health, sexual risk-taking and abuse of alcohol or drugs. Few associations has been found to sociodemographic... [ view full abstract ]

Authors

  1. Cecilia Fredlund (Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Linköping University)
  2. Örjan Dahlström (Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Linköping University)
  3. Carl-Göran Svedin (National Centre)
  4. Marie Wadsby (Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Linköping University)
  5. Linda Jonsson (Barnafrid, National Competence Centre in Child Abuse, Linköping University)
  6. Gisela Priebe (Lund University)

Topic Area

Child Trafficking (CT)

Session

Oral 32 » Session1-Child Trafficking (09:00 - Wednesday, 4th October, King Willem Alexander Compact)

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