Date: 03/04/2024 @8:45am-1pm (EST) Cost: $100
Instructor: Claire Robitaille, Ph.D., LSW, Psychologist
CE Credit Hours: 4 (ethics)
Program Description:
Human beings evaluate new information based on information obtained from their cultural norms, life experiences, and the resulting cognitive beliefs. These beliefs result in a “world view” that then impacts how we view, respond, and react to every experience. This training will explore the experience of bias and its purpose in our functioning, how to recognize our personal biases, and how to move beyond using critical thinking. Implications for clinical effectiveness will be incorporated throughout the training.
Goals:
· To increase the understanding of what bias is, its purpose and impact on human behavior, and ways to increase critical thinking as a tool for decreasing the negative impact of bias.
Objectives:
· Explain the function of bias in human evolution
· Define key terms associated with bias
· Recognize and describe the negative impact of biases and stereotypes
· Explain the relationship between of bias, discrimination and mental health
· Identify risks associated with unconscious biases in working with clients
· Apply critical thinking skills as a means of migrating the negative impact of biased thinking
Workshop Outline:
8:45-10 Introduction: The function of biases?
10-1045 Definitions: bias, assumptions, judgements, stereotyping, prejudice
1045-11 BREAK
11-12:15 Types of bias and their impact on thinking and behavior
· Understanding the relationship between bias, stereotyping and prejudice and mental health
· Why be more aware? What are critical thinking skills?
12:15-1 Application, wrap up, and takeaways
Level: Introductory/Intermediate
Mid-Ohio Psychological Services, Inc. has been approved as a CE provider by the Ohio Psychological Association (#311358292), the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker, and Marriage & Family Therapist Board (RCS060502), and as a NBCC ACEPTM No. 7265.
- Teacher: Claire Robitaille
