About this course

Learning Objectives

• Identify and explain the roles which providers’ own racial consciousness, awareness of privilege and understanding of bias play in their work with clients from marginalized groups and minoritized identities.
• Describe the systemic nature and impact of racial trauma on clients with mental health issues.
• List two ways in which providers can actively engage in antiracist practices in working with people struggling with mental health issues.
• Examine structural and institutional manifestations of racism and the impact of our internal biases on our clinical work.

Learning Levels

• Intermediate

Course Instructor(s)

• 

  Norman Kim, PhD

  Recipient of an individual National Research Service Award from the National Institutes of Health

  Norman completed his B.A. at Yale University where he studied music and psychology, and was the recipient of a Mellon Fellowship for Research in Psychiatry. He completed his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at UCLA, where he was the recipient of an individual National Research Service Award from the National Institutes of Health to study the neurobiologic underpinnings of emotion recognition and understanding in Autism. Most recently he has been involved in a multi-site, longitudinal study of children and adolescents at risk for developing bipolar disorder.

  In conjunction with his research, Norman has developed an expertise in treating and teaching about psychiatrically complex populations, multi-modal treatment, and diagnostic assessment. While rooted firmly in empirically supported approaches, he has incorporated practices emphasizing somatosensory integration and that draw from eastern and traditional medicine with our current knowledge of the neurobiologic and cognitive processes underlying anxiety, mood, trauma and eating disorders. He has endeavored to develop a clinical approach that focuses on the exploration of meaning as a path to healing and that honors an individual’s’ own narrative and journey.

  Norman is a frequent, national speaker and educator, and is a passionate advocate for eating disorder awareness and translating research into clinical practice. He was the co-founder of the Reasons Eating Disorder Center and is a regular national speaker, educator, and advocate for eating disorder awareness. He is on the Board of Directors of the Eating Disorders Coalition, the Eating Disorder Advisory Council for the Joint Commission, and the Clinical Advisory Boards for Recovery Warriors, Spectrum CBT, and Tikvah V’Chizuk. He is the National Director for Program Development for Reasons Eating Disorder and Center for Change.

Disclosure

References

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• Farahmand, P., Arshed, A., & Bradley, M. V. (2020). Systemic racism and substance use disorders. Psychiatric Annals, 50(11), 494-498.
• Fortuna, L. R., Al-Mateen, C. S., Cullins, L. M., Lohr, W. D., Slack, J., Gaines, P., ... & Zhen-Duan, J. (2022). Addressing Systemic Racism and Disparate Mental Health Outcomes for Youth of Color. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 31(2), i.
• Shattell, M., & Brown, P. J. (2017). Racism, white privilege, and diversity in mental health. Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 55(7), 2-3.
• Singh, A. A., Wise, T., & Ph.D, D. W. S. (2019). The Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism, and Engage in Collective Healing (Illustrated edition). New Harbinger Publications.
• Williams, M. T., Osman, M., Gallo, J., Pereira, D. P., Gran-Ruaz, S., Strauss, D., ... & Litman, L. (2022). A clinical scale for the assessment of racial trauma. Practice Innovations.