Implicit Bias for Clinicians: Transformative Strategies to Enhance Cultural Humility and Improve Client Outcomes

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All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.

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Kathryn Krase, PhD, JD, MSW Related seminars and products

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Kathryn Krase, PhD, JD, MSW, principal consultant with Krase Consultant, is a lawyer, social worker, and expert on the legal and ethical implications of professional practice. She has over two decades of experience as a professor of social work in undergraduate, masters level and doctoral level social work programs. She has authored multiple books and articles on the subject of professional ethics, including Making the Tough Call: A Resource for Professional Reporters of Suspected Child Maltreatment.

 

Dr. Krase blogs regularly on topics such as professional boundaries for clinicians, confidentiality in practice, and racial justice in mental health practice. She has years of experience consulting with government and community-based organizations to develop policy & practice standards, and trains thousands of mental and physical health professionals a year on various legal and ethical obligations.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Kathryn Krase maintains a private practice and has an employment relationship with Social Work Education Assessment Project. She receives royalties as a published author. Kathryn Krase receives a speaking honorarium and product royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Kathryn Krase is a member of the National Association of Social Workers.

Objectives

1. Identify central terms related to implicit and explicit bias.
2. Evaluate the impact of implicit and explicit bias on the development of systems that provide physical and mental health care.
3. Utilise a framework to assess the impact of implicit bias in professional practice.
4. Determine how to address implicit bias in the workplace.

Outline

Bias in Therapy

• The complicated role of resistance
• Differentiate implicit bias from explicit bias
• Common biases and how they impact therapy
• Impact of social identities on bias
• Social Identity Wheel exercise

Understand Bias

• The role that bias plays
• Unpacking Privilege
• Define privilege, explore its impact, and contrast privilege against cultural assumptions
• Explore the concepts of prejudice, stereotyping, microaggression and internalised oppression
• Individual communication styles defined in the Courageous Conversations Compass
• Responses to Bias:
  • Colour-blindness in American society
  • Code-Switching  

Impact of Implicit and Explicit Bias on the Development of Systems of Care

• Micro and macro level impacts of bias on mental health care
• Case Examples:
  • Provider bias against people with physical disabilities
  • Role of race in diagnosis
• Research Limitations and Risks

Assess and Address the Impact of Implicit Bias on Professional Practice

• The Implicit Association Tests as a tool to evaluate individual implicit bias
• Cultural competency and cultural humility as tools to address bias in practice
• Critical examination in the workplace
• Additional strategies used to address bias in professional practice
  • Intentional intergroup contact
  • Intragroup support through affinity groups
  • Deliberative preparation and processing

Target Audience

• Counsellors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Case Managers
• Therapists
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Other Mental Health Professionals
• Physicians