2023 Expert Insights - From Birth to Trauma - Psychology, Assessment, and Race

Abstract

This webinar will address the formation of racial trauma in African Americans and other minoritized populations. The session will trace the path from socialization around issues of race and how this often culminates in oppression and trauma. The impact of such trauma is far-reaching and impacts most aspects of life for minoritized populations, including mental health. We will then look at how the field of psychology and assessment has incorporated race, often in a way that either ignored race, over-pathologized certain populations or otherwise played into existing stereotypes. The webinar will then turn to race in the assessment room, including bias that presents itself in the diagnostic/assessment process. We will conclude with addressing practical and growth-based solutions to individual and systemic bias in the testing room.

Presenter

Linda McGhee | Clinical Psychologist