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Meets New Health Equity CE Requirements!
Implicit Bias and Healthcare Equity: The Impact of Self-Awareness
Presented by: Dreya Blume, LCSW
When: Thursday, October 17th, 2024 | 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM, Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 2 Health Equity CEs | $69.00
Age, race, ethnicity, weight, gender, social class, religion, sexual identity, gender identity, profession…this list, of course, is incomplete. The point is that there are multitudes of differences between people. Unfortunately, an interaction with another person can trigger unconsciously held negative or stigmatizing attitudes. Even more worrying, the research shows that unconscious (i.e., implicit) biases of mental health professionals influence how they assess and treat their clients.
To address this problem, this workshop aims to assist clinicians in increasing their awareness of internally held biases towards particular groups of people. But awareness isn’t enough. We will also explore managing biases, changing behavior, and tracking progress. This work will help you reassess your paperwork, evaluate how you run your clinical practice, and explore how you might best serve clients, regardless of their background.
We might have little control over our biases, but what we do have is the power to ensure that those attitudes do not prevent us from treating clients equitably and with dignity.
Objectives
Participants in this workshop will be able to:
- Describe the features of implicit biases.
- Locate and recognize internal biases.
- Consider how to utilize this awareness to create a standard of best practices for their clinical work.
- Create strategies for managing their implicit biases.
- Develop strategies that can lead to behavior change in terms of addressing and shifting their biases.