The Future of Healing (Argument)

      The author, Shawn Ginwright argues that the methods and the way we try to help our youth currently is not the best way and there is a better alternative that we need to use. He introduces the term "trauma- informed care" and what that means as well as how we can use it to help the youth who need help. Traumo-informed care is a set of principles that guise and direct us in how we view the impact of harm that has done been done to a young person. He then goes on to explain how this is not the best method. Ginwright says that the trauma-informed care structure focuses mainly on them being a victim and puts everyone in the same category. He says that instead of making them a victim, we should instead help them overcome being a victim and make them a product of what has happened to them. 

    Ginwright then introduces us to the idea of Healing Centered Engagement. The difference is that with trauma-informed care you focus on them being the victim of a horrible act and what had happened to them. But with Healing Centered Engagement it focuses on what is good about you individually and how you faced trauma because of being human. It focuses more on you being who you are rather than just being a victim which puts everyone in the same group, even though each person is different and has their own qualities. He also talks about his own experiences with young kids who have faced trauma. He talks about how he approached it and what the outcomes were. 

    

Hyperlink: Shifting how we heal from trauma