From the archives: Damon Wood, PhD. Healing Inside A Prison
The Trauma Therapist
Guy Crawford Macpherson
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🗓️ 5 December 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
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Dr. Damon Wood has held an interest in trauma focused therapies since his graduate education, and has completed trainings in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems, and DBT.
Since 2009, Dr. Wood has worked for the state of California in forensic institutions including Napa State Hospital and four California state prisons where he has provided treatment to the severely mentally ill, the severely behaviorally challenged, and the severely traumatized.
In 2015 Dr. Wood was promoted to the mental health leadership team at Salinas Valley State Prison where he has led teams of clinicians to provide treatment in one of the state’s most violent maximum security prisons. In this role and setting, Dr. Wood has championed trauma informed organizational support for the clinical staff that work in such a stressful and difficult environment.
Damon has spoken on this podcast before about safety within the prison setting. Today, though, we’re talking about what it means to work within the prison setting. What’s involved? What’s it like working with this particular population? What are the specific challenges, and also, what are the upsides and the rewards of doing this type of challenging and demanding work?
In This Episode
- Games Criminals Play: How You Can Profit by Knowing Them, by Bud Allen, Diana Bosta
- Damon's email
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| 1:24.9 | Today we have another episode from the Archives with one of my incredible guests, enjoy. |
| 1:34.3 | Welcome to the Trauma Ther's podcast, a show about the incredible people dedicated to helping those have experienced trauma. |
| 1:40.3 | My name is Guy McPherson and my mission is to raise the awareness of trauma and to |
| 1:45.3 | inspire each of us to help those around us. All right, guys, welcome back to the Trauma Therapers |
| 1:52.1 | podcast. Very excited to have back today, Dr. Damon Wood. Damon, welcome. Good morning. Good to be |
| 1:58.3 | back. All right. So Damon was my guest back on episode 370 of the Trauma Therapers podcast in which we talked about safety, creating safety within the context of working in a prison, so forth. |
| 2:12.6 | Today, I'm going to talk about, well, I'll let Damon describe more about what we talk about, but let me just give some context here. |
| 2:21.1 | Damon has held an interest in trauma-focused therapy since his graduate education. |
| 2:25.5 | He's completed trainings in sensory motorcycle therapy and internal family systems as well as DBT. |
| 2:31.5 | Since 2009, Dr. Wood has worked for the state of California in forensic institutions, |
| 2:36.0 | including Napa State Hospital, and four California state prisons where he's provided treatment |
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