Disrupting the Power Differential within Trauma Informed Care (N/NY-AC6121)
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Melanie Heindl, MS, ATR, LPC
Melanie Heindl is an art therapist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin currently serving as a Clinical Services Supervisor in an outpatient mental health clinic. Melanie specializes in developmental and complex traumas, working specifically with youth and their families involved in juvenile justice and child welfare. She is a doctoral student at Mount Mary University, where she serves as adjunct faculty in the graduate art therapy department. She received her Masters at Mount Mary in 2012. Her current work focuses on anti-oppressive trauma focused practice.
The presentation will explore ways in which to interrupt the trauma-informed care framework and critically analyze the power dynamics within its practice. Results from an anti-oppressive participatory action research design applying this process as well as strategies and recommendations based upon this research will be shared.