About this course

Learning Objectives

• Increase understanding of implicit bias
• Identify personal implicit biases
• Recognize the impact of personal bias on clinical practice
• Identify strategies for disrupting implicit biases

Learning Levels

• Intermediate

Target Audience

Course Instructor(s)

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  Sydney Brodeur-Johnson, PhD, LCP, CEDS

  Vice President, Clinical Services & EDI

  Sydney Brodeur-Johnson (she/her), PhD, LCP, CEDS, is the Vice President of Clinical Services and Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at Accanto Health, the parent company of The Emily Program and Gather Behavioral Health.

  Sydney’s passion is providing best-practice, research-informed, and multiculturally competent treatment to patients and their families suffering with eating disorders. She is committed to increasing access to effective treatment, training professionals to deliver gold-standard care, and empowering them to be the best providers and people they can be.

  Dr. Brodeur-Johnson received her PhD in counseling psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in 2005 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham with a concentration in the interdisciplinary treatment of adolescents with eating disorders. She assisted with the opening of Carolina House, a residential eating disorder treatment facility in Durham, NC, and was its first Clinical Director. From 2008 to 2019, Sydney served as the eating disorder specialist and Associate Director for Training at University Counseling Services at VCU. In that role, she maintained APA accreditation of the psychology internship program and was the administrator for the training program for students in psychology, social work, and counselor education. She also served as a member of the center’s executive team.

  In her free time, Sydney enjoys spending time with her children and partner, being outdoors, listening to music, and traveling.

Disclosure

References

• https://www.childtrends.org/publications/prevalence-adverse-childhood-experiences-nationally-state-race-ethnicity
• Powell, J.A. (2000). Whites will be Whites: The Failure to Interrogate Racial Privilege, 34, U.S.F. L. Rev 419 – 464.
• https://www.jointcommission.org/resources/news-and-multimedia/newsletters/newsletters/quick-safety/quick-safety-issue-23-implicit-bias-in-health-care/implicit-bias-in-health-care/
• https://www.aafp.org/journals/fpm/blogs/inpractice/entry/implicit_bias.html
• https://www.today.com/health/what-implicit-bias-invisible-racism-hurts-black-women-doctor-s-t189105