Origins of Unconscious Bias: Deconstructing Unconscious Bias in Behavioral Health Care Series | Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC) Network

Origins of Unconscious Bias: Deconstructing Unconscious Bias in Behavioral Health Care Series | Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC) Network

Deconstructing Unconscious Bias in Behavioral Health Care:  Session 1 Origins of Unconscious Bias – Webinar Series

Thursday, August 27, 1:00 p.m. EDT

This series was developed to provide professionals with a review of implicit (i.e., unconscious) bias and how it negatively affects communications, interactions, decision-making, and service outcomes for racial and ethnic communities. It also offers tools and approaches to address, mitigate and diminish the effects of unconscious bias in the addiction, mental health, and prevention disciplines in order to collectively effect equitable outcomes for persons of color.

Session 1 of the four-part series: Origins of Unconscious Bias, will discuss how cognitive bias develops, how it is sustained by intrinsic and environmental factors, and how it contributes to inequitable outcomes for persons of color in behavioral health care.

Other sessions in the series include:

• Session 2: Making the Case to Identify Not Blame, Thursday, September 3, 2020 1:00 p.m. EDT,
• Session 3: Dismantling Bias and Building Equity, Thursday, September 10, 2020 1:00 p.m. EDT, and
• Session 4: Learning from the Field, Thursday, September 17, 2020 1:00 p.m. EDT.