As a society, we are finally beginning to understand that “structural racism” does not represent a single point of impact. We now know that it forms a web of barriers and obstacles for Black and Brown people the impact of which is adversely synergistic and compounding. As a result, Black and Brown individuals experience significant weathering and their communities remain on a perpetual downward trajectory. At the core of structural racism is racial bias, or race-based beliefs, attitudes, and ideas that are socially encoded and embedded into systems which perpetuate them. Today, anti-Black and anti-Brown racial biases, both explicit and implicit, are a deeply ingrained part of American culture. As such, our system of mental health actively facilitates and perpetuates racial bias. This presentation aims to help the participant to recognize their own implicit biases, how they are formed and assumed, and how to recognize them in systems and society. Strategies will also be offered to support participants’ becoming bias-resistant and ultimately reducing the undercurrent of racial bias in our mental health system at large.
At the conclusion of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Explore, reflect upon, and identify their own racial biases
- Be able to outline how our brains have a natural proclivity toward bias
- Describe how racial biases are encoded and enacted
- Articulate how racial bias is transmitted from the level of the individual to the system level
- Gain strategies for developing anti-bias clinical practice within our healthcare system
10:00 am Introduction & Obstacles to discussing race
10:15 am Understanding race, racism, and implicit bias
10:45 am Encoding & enacting racial bias
11:15 am Implicit bias and artificial intelligence
11:30 am Racial bias at the systems level
11:45 am Becoming bias-resistant
12: 55 pm Conclusion/Q&A