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By means of this paper, we will try to give an account of the specificity of Therapeutic Accompaniment in the community, understanding this as a mean that offers tools for prevention and promotion of mental health. To do so, we will delimit and describe the work carried out in the N.G.O. Psicologías Sin fronteras, in the device called "Carpas de Salud Mental" (Mental Health Tents), which aims at accompanying the communities in the transition through the mental health demands that may exist, generating a transformation in their realities and fostering autonomous decisions in relation to the health/illness/attention. We will take, as a reference, the participatory understood investigation from the community, as a democratic model of knowledge production, which involves the active participation of its members, encouraging community autonomy, understanding the latter as a fundamental pillar in terms of human rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order for sex trafficking to exist, the so-called "client or user" has to exist because they are the ones perpetuating the exploitation circle, they are responsible of generating a demand that motivates human trafficking, which wouldn't exist without a market to "sell the commodity". The crime of human trafficking represents a serious violation of human rights: it violates the right to freedom, health, education and identity, among others. In this sense, social tolerance, by naturalizing these practices, encourages their violation. Continuing to make invisible the figure of the so-called "client or user" will mean that attention will continue to fall on the victim, stigmatizing them, discriminating against them; that different forms of exploitation are perpetuated and patriarchal stereotypes that reduce women to the place of consumer object/merchandise are promoted and reinforced. In this context, one of the fundamental duties of the therapeutic companion is to advocate for the rights of the victim and raise awareness in the community about the role that the "client" plays in this crime. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]