Shawn Ginwright's Views on Healing Centered Engagement
Shawn Ginwright's article on the transitioning from trauma informed care to healing centered engagement is an interesting and valuable conversation to be had. Trauma informed care looks at the dealings of past trauma with a medical/scientific lens on the person. However, there is an argument for a more positive and spiritually cleansing way of going about dealing with trauma, and that way is healing centered engagement. HCE is a more personal, emotional, and spiritual way of healing from trauma that does not use medical ways of curing trauma.
Quote #1: "Communities, and individuals who experience trauma are agents in restoring their own well-being. This subtle shift suggests that healing from trauma is found in an awareness and actions that address the conditions that created the trauma in the first place"(Ginwright).
The quote above discusses how HCE is a community healing process by bringing in others who have experienced trauma to help those who need another voice. There is much more awareness of what is going on and more awareness of themselves. They also go at trying to better the conditions that caused their trauma by participating in political/cultural action.
Quote #2: "Healing centered engagement uses culture as a way to ground young people in a solid sense of meaning, self-perception, and purpose. This process highlights the intersectional nature of identity and highlights the ways in which culture offers a shared experience, community and sense of belonging. Healing is experienced collectively, and is shaped by shared identity such as race, gender, or sexual orientation. Healing centered engagement is the result of building a healthy identity, and a sense of belonging"(Ginwright).
Ginwright describes how finding oneself after trauma through HCE has a lot to due with the identity of the person. They need to find themselves after the trauma, and through that they can find belonging with themselves and their environment. It's a spiritual process of forgiveness and finding a new individual after the trauma.
Quote #3: "While it is important to acknowledge trauma and its influence on young people’s mental health, healing centered strategies move one step beyond by focusing on what we want to achieve, rather than merely treating emotional and behavioral symptoms of trauma. This is a salutogenic approach focusing on how to foster and sustain well-being. Based in positive psychology, healing centered engagement is based in collective strengths and possibility which offers a departure from conventional psychopathology which focuses on clinical treatment of illness"(Ginwright).
Ginwright here discusses how HCE looks forward at what the person wants to become rather than having a sole purpose of fixing the problem. There are multiple things that HCE wants to accomplish in order to move forward with the painful experience rather than just trying to fix it or get rid of it.
At the end of the day, a person should be able to decide what type of treatment is best for them. However, HCE is a very promising and different approach compared to the typical treatment for trauma. It tackles the trauma at multiple angles and has shown to allow people to move forward rather than try to fix a problem that may not get fixed.
I also agree Logan I think everyone should be able to be treated they way they would like for there trauma.
ReplyDeleteI agree that people should treat trauma with how they want to
ReplyDeleteI like the third quote that you used and I agree that people should be able to treat trauma in the way they want to
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