Explore your personal self-awareness

As individuals, our own biases impact the care we provide and how we teach. Examining these biases is important in working to provide inclusive education for all and reduce health disparities for our clients. Complete your personal implicit bias assessments from the Project Implicit site: read the Preliminary Information then click on "I wish to proceed". Next you will find a page with several Implicit Association Tests (IAT)

Consider how your own bias may influence how you interpret another individual - whether that person is Black, wealthy/poor, indigenous, person of color, disabled, lesbian, gay, transgender, queer, white - particularly in your role as an occupational therapy practitioner. Dr. Thema Bryant-Davis explores this for mental health therapists and her discussion has direct application to occupational therapy practice. Dr. Bryant-Davis asks the viewer to determine how they would respond to a question from a client - and the client is asking the question of the practitioner to determine if they want to receive services from this therapist. After viewing the video, consider the question from an occupational therapy perspective. How would you answer? View the NICABM video on moving from cultural competence to anti-racism.