Event Description:
Behavioral health professionals often work with society’s most vulnerable and marginalized populations.
The various codes of ethics and among behavioral health professionals provide practitioners with standards of conduct and guidance to serve clients in ways that respect their individual backgrounds and life circumstances.
This training will focus on the behavioral health professional's ethical responsibility to seek social justice on behalf of those who are oppressed; and how we provide services from a culturally sensitive, humble, and competent perspective.
Objectives
Define terms and concepts related to racism and discrimination.
Identify marginalized populations and their characteristics (actual and perceived).
Cite and discuss instances of disproportionality and policies/systems that create disparity.
Identify and operationalize the behavioral health professional's ethical responsibility to marginalized populations.