Understanding and Addressing Implicit Biases in Clinical Practice

ON-DEMAND WEBINAR

**This is a recording of a previously held live webinar. You will not be able to interact with the polls mentioned throughout the training.In order to receive CE credits, you will be required to pass a post-test after watching the video**

Instructor: Milton A. Fuentes, PsyD

Instructional Level: Introductory

Audience: Open to all psychologists, psychologists in training, and other mental health professionals.

1.5 CE credits for Psychologists (APA)

1.5 CE credits for New York Psychologists (NYSED)

Price: $30

Course Description

As noted in the American Psychological Association’s ethical code, “Psychologists try to eliminate the effect on their work of biases based on those factors, and they do not knowingly participate in or condone activities of others based upon such prejudices.” While these are critical endeavors that can be fostered and maintained by intercultural competence; regretfully, implicit biases may compromise these efforts. Implicit biases are cognitive traces that are informed by past experiences and inform our current performance (Grenwald & Banaji, 2013). These biases may lead to problematic attitudes, discriminatory practices, and maladaptive dynamics in our clinical work; hence, psychologists need to be equipped with the necessary knowledge, skills, and attitudes to adequately address these biases and promote intercultural competence. To this end, this session will highlight best practices informed by social psychology research for understanding and monitoring implicit biases and promoting a diversity-centered practice.

Learning Objectives

By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

• Define implicit bias

• Explain at least one strategy to assess implicit bias

• Describe at least three awareness-raising and prejudice-reduction exercises that can lead to the lessening of implicit biases in professional practice

Agenda

0-5 Introduction, Recent Developments

6-10 Role of Values and Implicit Bias

11-25 Understanding Implicit Bias: Defining, Key Characteristics; Intersectionality; Gender Bias; Impact of Bias Training; Microaggressions

26-79 Dismantling Biases: Awareness (IAT); Stereotype replacement; Counter-stereotypic imaging; Individuating; Perspective taking; Increasing opportunities for contact

80-90 Question/Answer

Instructor 

Dr. Milton A. Fuentes received his MA in psychology with a Latinx psychology focus from Montclair State University and his doctorate in clinical psychology from Rutgers University. He completed a pre-doctoral fellowship in clinical and community psychology at Yale University and secured post-doctoral training in epidemiology at Columbia University.  He is the 2012 President of the National Latinx Psychological Association.  Dr. Fuentes has served as an ethnic minority delegate to APA’s Council of Representatives and as a member of APA’s Board for the Advancement of Psychology in the Public Interest, APA’s Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs, and the APA Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Collaborative.  Dr. Fuentes’ research and clinical interests are in the areas of Latinx, multicultural, and family psychology; program development; pedagogy; and motivational enhancement.  He serves as a consultant to institutions of higher education, community-based agencies, and corporate clients, including the Council of University Directors of Clinical Psychology. After engaging in an extensive and competitive application process and completing the relevant forum training, he secured membership in the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers.  Dr. Fuentes is currently a professor in the psychology department at Montclair State University as well as a licensed psychologist in New Jersey and New York.

Dr. Fuentes does not have any commercial support and/or conflict of interest for this program.

Contact Us

For questions, please contact: ce@gsapp.rutgers.edu  or call (848) 445-3577

Continuing Education Information

Rutgers Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology (GSAPP) is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0123.

Rutgers Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Rutgers Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology maintains responsibility for this program and its content.