Addressing Implicit Bias: Exploring Strategies for Success

 

DESCRIPTION:

Implicit biases can have a significant impact on communication, decision-making, and perceptions and beliefs about others. As a result, it can also influence the effectiveness of promoting an inclusive and diverse environment. Participants in this workshop will learn how to explore their own personal biases, be introduced to approaches that can assist in being more conscious and aware about implicit biases as well as the impact these biases can have on others.

 

 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

  • Enhance participant’s awareness of their own implicit biases.
  • Examine how implicit attitudes and stereotypes result in subtle forms of prejudice.
  • Identify strategies for disrupting or reducing implicit bias.

 

 

CONTINUING EDUCATION:

Registrants who fully attend this training will be eligible to receive 2 continuing education (CE) hours certified by the Minnesota Board of Social Work. CE certificates are provided by People Incorporated Training Institute.

 

 

PRESENTER:

Fiyyaz Karim

Fiyyaz Karim, PsyD, is a resident faculty member in the master of professional studies in integrated behavioral health and master of professional studies in addictions counseling programs at the University of Minnesota.

 

Prior to working in higher education, Karim was employed in community mental health outpatient settings, many addressing the needs of underserved and minority populations. His clinical interests include identity development, grief and loss, social justice issues, health psychology, trauma, and PTSD. He has conducted professional training sessions and presented on diversity issues including microaggressions, cultural appropriation, and racial identity.

 

Karim has done clinical work and research in grief and loss, with an emphasis on unemployment, divorce (or relationship losses), chronic illness, addictions, and more recently losses with the pandemic. He has also done mental health work and research in trauma/PTSD, especially with immigrants/refugees.

 

 

Training Institute

 

 

 

 

 

The Great Lakes MHTTC is offering this training for individuals working in HHS Region 5: IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, WI. This training is being provided in response to a need identified by Region 5 stakeholders.

Starts: Apr. 12, 2023 8:45 am
Ends: Apr. 12, 2023 11:00 am
Timezone:
US/Central
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