239 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine HEALTH AND WELLNESS Dr. Trufant’s work on her invention began in 1986 after her general clinical internship at UC Los Angeles ended, where she became interested in Tavistock group relations and intergroup workable collaborations. This culminated in her responding to calls for papers and applying to organizations to present her model, to no avail. She discovered that her idea had been taken by others and shared as their own. In 1999, however, her model was accepted as a poster session by the Society for Community Research and Action, Division 27, American Psychological Association at their Seventh Biennial Conference, and presented by her at Yale University. Dr. Trufant was the owner of Intergroup Resolutions from 2006 to 2021. Its basis complemented her patent(s) ideas, consulting and additional clinical/professional experiences. She taught as an emergency 30-day substitute teacher in Bay Area school districts and for grades K-12 in Oakland, California. Dr. Trufant taught in the Department of Educational Psychology, Division of Clinical Counseling, California State University, East Bay as a temporary lecturer and in the Drake University Law School as a minority student counselor. She was a staff psychologist at Des Moines Child Guidance Center and was a GM-180-13 civilian clinical psychologist (Director, U.S. Air Force Services for Exceptional Children; Team Leader) in Naples, Italy. She began as a predoctoral general intern and research fellow at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. Dr. Trufant earned a BA from UC Berkeley and an MA and PhD from Michigan State University. A licensed psychologist in Wisconsin and California, she is also a licensedmarriage and family therapist and a certified clinical trauma professional. She was awarded two fellowships from the National Institute of Mental Health and was designated a dissertation fellow of Black Analysis, Inc. With over 20 years of experience, Dr. Carol A. Trufant is an inventor/ researcher. She has a U.S. Design Patent (2002) #D467615s; “Surface Pattern for an Intergroup Working Model for Social Conflict Resolution Applied to a Setting or Room for Adults,” and a U.S. (Utility) Patent Application Publication (2006) No. 2006/00281059; “Method and Setting for Social Conflict Resolution.” CAROL A.TRUFANT, PHD, CGP PSYCHOLOGIST, CONSULTANT Oakland, CA
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