
Diagnostic overshadowing is a powerful manifestation of how unexamined implicit biases hold the capacity to influence our clinical assessment and practice, cause healthcare disparities, and ultimately lead to harm. Exploring this implicit bias in a meaningful way requires individuals to understand the concepts of intersectionality and the power dynamics inherent in the patient/client-therapist/counselor relationship. However, an exploration is not enough, as clinicians, we must point out implicit bias when we see it, take actions to fight against implicit bias, and be able to analyze how implicit bias took place and how to mitigate it. Clinicians must build a muscle of comfort for disrupting the narratives that perpetuate implicit biases. Attendees will enhance their clinical practice through the examinations of two strategies to disrupt implicit bias among their colleagues. These strategies will provide both insight into personal barriers to advocacy and specific language toward unveiling harmful narratives.
Target Audience: Post-Master and Post-Doctoral level Health Care Professionals.
Illinois Healthcare Professionals Implicit Bias Training Requirements
New Mexico Psychologist Cultural Diversity/Health Disparity CPE Requirements
Missouri Social Workers' Implicit Bias Training Requirements
Michigan Implicit Bias Training Requirement Rule
Levels of instruction: Introductory
This program has no known conflict of interest or promotion of commercial products.
APA course content criteria:
This Program content focuses on topics related to psychological practice, education, or research other than application of psychological assessment and/or intervention methods that are supported by contemporary scholarship grounded in established research procedures.
NBCC course content criteria:
- Social and Cultural Foundation
Levels of instruction: Introductory
This program has no known conflict of interest or promotion of commercial products.
APA course content criteria:
This Program content focuses on topics related to psychological practice, education, or research other than application of psychological assessment and/or intervention methods that are supported by contemporary scholarship grounded in established research procedures.
NBCC course content criteria:
- Social and Cultural Foundation
- Assessment