Friday, October 30th, 2026 1:45 PM EDT -4:45 PM EDT Kathryn Krase, Ph.D., J.D., LMSW
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Description
Bias in mental health practice is rarely a matter of anyone deciding to discriminate. It shows up in which symptoms get
explored and which get assumed, whose account is believed, which intake form has a box for your family, and which crisis
gets a clinician rather than a police officer. This course moves past awareness and into examination. After clarifying the
terms the field uses loosely and reviewing what the research shows about how bias operates and what it costs,
participants work through twenty brief case studies drawn from patterns documented in the clinical and health-services
literature. Cases are organized by ecological level — micro, mezzo, and macro — and span race, ethnicity, religion, gender
identity, sexual orientation, age, weight, parenthood, disability, immigration status, and socioeconomic status.
Please Note: Maryland requires Anti-Oppressive Training to be taken as a live Category I training. This class only meets the Maryland requirement when taken as a live training.
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About the Presenter:
Learning Objectives:
- Distinguish implicit bias, explicit bias, and structural, institutional, interpersonal, and internalized racism, and describe how each operates in mental health practice.
- Identify how bias surfaces in the clinical encounter through microaggressions, diagnostic overshadowing, testimonial injustice, and stereotype threat.
- Describe the documented impacts of bias on clients and professionals, including minority stress, racial trauma, allostatic load, weathering, and therapeutic mistrust.
- Analyze case examples at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels to locate where bias or structural racism influenced assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, or engagement.
- Apply cultural humility, critical consciousness, anti-oppressive practice, intersectionality, and positionality to name at least one concrete, equitable alternative in each case.
Agenda:
(10 min)
Introductions Presenter and participant introductions, including positionality and
the limits of what this session can do.
(20 min)
Setting the Stage:
How Bias Operates
Clarifying the terms this field uses loosely: implicit and explicit bias,
structural and institutional racism, interpersonal and internalized
racism, aversive racism, and color-blind racial ideology.
Time Segment Description
(15 min)
How Bias Surfaces in the
Room
Microaggressions (microassault, microinsult, microinvalidation),
diagnostic overshadowing, testimonial injustice, and stereotype
threat — in both directions, from professional to client and client to
professional.
(15 min)
Impacts on Clients and
Professionals
Minority stress, racial trauma, allostatic load, weathering, and
therapeutic and medical mistrust. How discrimination becomes
embodied, and why mistrust is a reasonable response.
(15 min)
Frameworks to Counter
Bias
Cultural humility, critical consciousness, anti-oppressive practice,
intersectionality, and positionality — with participants naming what
they have already tried.
(50 min)
Micro-Level Case Studies The individual clinical encounter: diagnostic overweighting, language
access, religion read as pathology, diagnostic overshadowing, ageism,
weight bias, paternal postpartum depression, microaggression and
alliance rupture, bias directed at the clinician, and client
self-censorship.
(30 min)
Mezzo-Level Case Studies The agency, program, and community level: intake forms that exclude
chosen family, assessment tools normed on narrow populations,
inaccessible facilities, identification requirements at intake, and
insurance-driven session limits.
(20 min)
Macro-Level Case Studies The policy and societal level: crisis response and involuntary holds,
licensure barriers for internationally trained clinicians, culturally
responsive care for Jewish clients, state restrictions on
gender-affirming care, and reimbursement structures.
(5 min)
Conclusions & Questions Synthesis and open discussion.
Accreditation - This Webinar Offers 3 Live Interactive Continuing Education Credits
- NEFESH International is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0046
- NEFESH International is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Mental Health Counselor #MHC-0082
- CE You! is an approved sponsor of the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners for continuing education credits for licensed social workers in Maryland.
CE You! maintains responsibility for this program.
This training meets the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners requirement for either 'Ethics' OR 'Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice' - Therapist Express is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists. #CAT-0122.
- Therapist Express is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0275.
- Therapist Express is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0774.
This presentation is open to:
- Behavior Analysts
- Social Workers
- Professional Counselors
- Therapists
- Psychologists
- Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
- Medical Doctors and Other Health Professionals
- Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services
This online class is offered at an introductory level, and is beneficial for a beginner level clinician:
- New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
- Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
- Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
- Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives
Additional information
- Refunds: Registrants who are unable to attend a NEFESH seminar or live webinars may ask for, and will receive, a credit or refund (your choice). Refund requests will be processed within 3 business days. When an attendee knows in advance that they are unable to attend we ask that they inform NEFESH ahead of time by emailing secretary@nefeshinternational.org or by calling or texting 201-384-0084 this allows us to free up the spot in the training in the event that a training is at or near capacity.
- Disability Access: If you require ADA accommodations, please contact our office 30 days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification.
- Please Note: Licensing Boards change regulations often, and while we attempt to stay abreast of their most recent changes, if you have questions or concerns about this course meeting your specific board’s approval, we recommend you contact your board directly.
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- Satisfactory Completion: Certificates are available after satisfactory course completion in your account or by clicking here
- Participants will receive their certificate electronically upon completion of the webinar and course evaluation form.
- There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.
- System Requirements: Any device (such as a computer, tablet, or phone), Dual-Core 2 GHz or higher processor, and at least 4 GB of RAM capable of running a Zoom session, along with a stable internet connection.
- Although early registration is recommended for this class in order to ensure the best experience, attendees may register and join until the start of the program