Education: From the origins of our training programs, we have placed a high value on cultural diversity and individual differences as well as health disparities. Our clinical psychology internship and psychiatry residency programs focus on the acquisition of the profession-wide competency of understanding, managing, and facilitating individual and cultural diversity. Training in this competency occurs in a variety of settings including case conferences, group supervision, lectures, modeling, mindfulness of and efforts to address health disparities in practice and research endeavors. Our current DEI initiatives in education represent the ongoing work to create a programmatic culture of openness and inclusion that values diversity on many different.
- Current DEI curriculum offerings include Diversity Journal Club and Diversity Book Club
- Faculty incorporate DEI factors in supervision as related to patient care (outpatient, inpatient, and neuropsychology)
- Attendance at anti-racism lectures through professional organizations (e.g. addiction medicine)
- Faculty identified a number of didactic opportunities where DEI values are incorporated into lectures (e.g. cultural neuropsychology, first-episode psychosis trainings, CBT) both within our educational programs and across the medical community
2020-2021 Highlights
- Anita Chang has offered didactics on dealing with micro- aggressions and implicit bias
- Respondents have completed Safe Zone Training
- Ruth Barrientos is co-director of Department of Neuroscience DEI committee, charged with educating neuroscience graduate program-related faculty and students on a number of DEI related topics and sponsoring webinars
- Blessing Igboeli, Katherine Brownlowe, and Gomathie Chelvayohan have established a planning committee to create and implement a cultural competency in psychiatry series beginning Fall 2021
- Francis Lu was invited speaker at our Department Grand Rounds, presenting on “DSM-5 Outline for Cultural Formulation and Cultural Formulation Interview: Tools for Culturally Competent Care”
- Altha Stewart was invited speaker at our Department Grand Rounds, presenting on “Structural Racism in American Psychiatry: Looking Back to Inform and Improve our Future”
- Diversity Journal Club topic highlights: Commission on Ethnic Minority Recruitment, Retention, and Training in Psychology Task Force; invited speaker Osborne to discuss Clinical applications of social media influences; Calls to action in Neuropsychology; Cancel Culture and Moral Psychology and their clinical implications; Preferred Gender Pronouns