A Transdisciplinary Model of Change for Trauma Responsive Design, Research, and Practice

A starting point for approaching design with a care-centered, healing-focused, trauma-responsive lens.

A Venn diagram with shades of purple, peach, and blue with intersecting circles on social work values, design research methods, and trauma-informed care principles.

This Transdisciplinary Model of Change for Trauma Responsive Design Research is a culmination of integrating social work values, design research methods. and trauma-informed care principles.

  • Social Work Values need to be anti-oppressive with a focus on compassionate inquiry and new practices of liberatory social work.

  • Design Research Methods must be practiced with compassionate humility while building and expanding literacy on trauma knowledge.

  • Trauma-Informed Care Principles must focus on decolonized and liberatory trauma work that centers care and healing of the collective.

Suggested Citation:

Dietkus, R. (2021). A Transdisciplinary Model of Change for Trauma Responsive Design Research. Social Workers Who Design. Retrieved from www.socialworkerswho.design.