Challenging Racial Violence in Mental Health Encounters-Handout: Slides

Handout: Slides

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This document is from the American Psychiatric Association and provides information about challenging racial violence in mental health. It includes sections on funding and disclaimers, continuing education credit, how to download handouts, and how to participate in Q&A sessions. <br /><br />The document then focuses on the topic of challenging racial violence in mental health, discussing various levels of racism and manifestations of racial violence in the workplace, the impact of racism on mental wellbeing, and strategies to respond to incidents of racism in mental health treatment settings. It explains that racism operates on institutional, personally mediated, and internalized levels. It defines institutional racism as practices and policies that create differential outcomes for different racial groups, personally mediated racism as prejudice and discrimination directed towards individuals, and internalized racism as self-acceptance of negative messaging from the dominant society about abilities and worth.<br /><br />The document also discusses intersectionality, which refers to how people possess multiple layered identities that interact and intersect in individuals' lives. It emphasizes the importance of addressing racial violence, which encompasses all forms of racist hate speech and not just limited to racially-motivated physical violence. It introduces the concept of the minority tax, which refers to extra responsibilities placed on minority faculty in the name of efforts to achieve diversity.<br /><br />The document provides communication scripts for addressing incidents of racism, emphasizing the importance of asking clarifying questions, expressing impact, and requesting appropriate action to be taken. It also includes case presentations in an outpatient and inpatient setting to illustrate real-life examples and challenges faced in confronting racial violence.<br /><br />The document concludes with references and information on how to claim credit for attending the virtual event.

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mental health

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impact of racism

strategies to respond

institutional racism

intersectionality

communication scripts

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