Workshop Description
In this 4.75 CEU workshop, Dr. Quentin Tyler will provide counseling professionals substantive training regarding the issue of implicit bias and how it relates to their areas of practice. In response to the public health crisis that is racism, the Vermont legislature has required all healthcare professionals to receive training on systematic oppression and anti-oppressive practice (Act 117). Specific areas to be covered include how implicit bias is defined, historical trauma, the manifestation of implicit bias on the micro, mezzo, and macrolevels, intersectionality, the power structures and processes that cultivate a culture of bias, micro-assaults, microaggressions, microinsults, micro-preventions, micro-validations, micro-interventions, strategies for mitigating implicit bias by applying reduction skills to case studies and personal biased experiences, encourage development of an action plan for implementing learning so it's sustainable and transferable to professional counseling, counselor professional identity and practice issues, wellness, and prevention.
Dr. Quentin Tyler will be presenting a 3.25-hour interactive presentation in the morning on “Everyone has a Story,” where participants will be challenged to view the world through an equity lens while also realizing the importance of understanding that everyone they come across, whether in a professional or personal setting, has their own unique story that makes them who they are.
The 1.5-hour afternoon session will consist of a more informal roundtable conversation where Dr. Tyler will help us develop an action plan to identify and address systematic racism within the professional mental health community in Vermont and inaugurate VTMHCA’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee which will further develop and implement the ideas generated in this meeting.
Provide information on implicit bias, equitable access to healthcare, serving a diverse population, diversity and inclusion initiatives, and cultural sensitivity.
Learning Objectives
Discuss strategies for the counselor to remedy the negative impact of implicit bias by recognizing and understanding how it impacts perception, judgment, and actions that may result in inequitable decision making, failure to effectively communicate, and result in barriers and disparities in the access to and delivery of counseling related services.
Explore the historical basis of implicit biases based on an individual's characteristics and how present consequences impact client experiences.
Discuss current research on implicit bias in the access to and delivery of counseling psychotherapy services.
Schedule
Morning section (3 ¼ CE):
8:15 – 9:00 am – Registration
9:00 – 10:30 am – Section I – Implicit bias
10:30 – 10:45 am – Break
10:45 – 12:30 pm – Section II – Microaggressions
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm – lunch at VSU Campus cafeteria (cost of lunch included in registration fee)
Afternoon section (1 ½ CE):
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm – Section III – Systemic oppression interactive conversation
Program concludes at 3:00pm.
Biography
Dr. Quentin Tyler was the Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) for the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (CANR) at Michigan State University (MSU) before becoming Director of MSU Extension in 2021.