Tag: implicit bias
-
Implicit Bias in Social Work: Follow Your Gut?
Read more: Implicit Bias in Social Work: Follow Your Gut?Your brain builds associations from what it’s exposed to, repeatedly, over years. Faces with contexts. Names with outcomes. Presentations with categories. This happens without your consent and largely without your awareness, and it’s the same machinery that lets you read a room in three seconds or know a client is in trouble before he says…
-
You Have Bias. Now What?
Read more: You Have Bias. Now What?Excerpted from SWTP CEU’s Recognizing and Managing Bias 4.5 CE course.) You’re reviewing your case notes from this week. One client—a Black woman in her 30s—you described as “guarded” and “resistant to engaging in treatment.” Another client—a white woman, same age, similar presentation—you described as “appropriately cautious” and “taking time to build trust.” Same behavior.…