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  "The Future of Healing: Shifting from Trauma Informed Care to Healing Centered Engagement"  Shawn Ginwright Argument In this week's assigned reading , the author Shawn Ginwright opens our minds to a discussion that the public has not really placed a great deal of focus on. Ginwright argues throughout his text about misconceptions regarding trauma healing and the ways that people who are victims of traumatic events are perceived. The author's initial views and methods of helping those who have undergone trauma are those that most people would think to enact: focus on the the traumatic event and help the victim to overcome it. This is more focused toward trauma informed care, meaning that it is viewed that someone's emotional stability is being jeopardized directly by a traumatic incident. Ginwright explains this method of healing as focusing on "healing the whole person and not specific symptoms or behaviors." This type of care is usually enacted in the...