Differential Diagnosis – Racially Diverse Populations and Mental Health – 1st and 2nd Session
Trainer: Dr.Alfiee Breland-Noble (known professionally as Dr. Alfiee) is a sought-after expert in teen, young adult, and family mental health, and is known nationally as a gifted scientist, public speaker, author, and media personality. With a primary focus on teens, college students, families, and communities of color, she is recognized for her remarkable ability to motivate and inspire by translating complex scientific concepts into everyday language. Dr. Alfiee will be sharing how bias contributes to misdiagnosis and diagnostic disparities. Dr. Alfiee will also provide an understanding of racial bias and its contributions to individual, interpersonal, institutional, and structural racism.
Who should attend: Clinicians, court personnel, first responders, mental health professionals and anyone interested in understanding how race and bias impacts wellness and mental health symptoms.
About this event: This training will be offered over two 2-hour sessions. Please click to register for the appropriate session below:
REGISTRATION: The first session – Racially Diverse Populations and Mental Health (12:30 to 2:30) is for school and court personnel, first responders, mental health professionals and anyone interested in understanding how race and bias impacts wellness and mental health symptoms.
REGISTRATION: The second session – Differential Diagnosis (3 to 5 pm) is for mental health professionals and will focus on helping mental health professionals recognize primary language and definitions of differential diagnosis for mental health concerns in youth as well as how to recognize primary features and outcomes related to racial differences in mental illness diagnoses. Mental health professionals can use this information to create a vision for how to diagnose mental health concerns by limiting and reducing racial biases.
Mental health professionals are asked to attend two experiential sessions to explore individual experiences with and contributions to racism that underlie differential diagnoses and build practices to eliminate differential diagnoses while ensuring equitable access to high quality mental health care for all adolescents. An email with a zoom link will be sent to mental health professionals after the April 6, 2021 training with the two dates which are: Wednesday, May 26, 2021 from 1 to 2:30 pm and Thursday, July 29, 2021 from 1 to 2:30 pm.
Location – Held via Zoom. Registrants will receive a link the week before.
Cost – This is a free training.
Education credits – CEUs are pending currently
Please register by March 30, 2021.
Session 1: April 6, 2021, 12:30 to 2:30 PM
Overview of Course
- Describe primary language and definitions of differential diagnosis for mental health concerns in youth.
- Summarize primary features and outcomes related to racial differences in mental illness diagnoses.
- Describe racial bias, and the primary factors that support racial in mental health practice, in their own words.
- Categorize the roles of each cross-system partner in supporting bias reduction in mental
- Illustrate how individuals can guard against differential diagnosis
| TIME | ACTIVITY | WHO? |
| *12:00 PM EST | Open Meeting Room for Team | AAKOMA Tech Team |
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12:10 – 12: 15 PM ET |
Presenters & AAKOMA Team Tech Check
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Dr. Alfiee, Erica, Imani, Stark Representatives |
| 12 :25 – 12 :30 PM ET |
Participants are let into Meeting Room
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AAKOMA Tech Team |
| 12 :30- 12 :40 PM ET |
Welcome Message from Stark and instructions for the day
Dr. Alfiee Introduction
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Stark Representative |
| 12 :40 – 12 :50 PM ET |
Dr. Alfiee opening remarks
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Dr. Alfiee |
| 12:50- 12:55 PM ET |
Run Poll #1 |
Tech Team |
| 12:55 – 1:15 PM ET | Topic #1 – Introduction to Differential Diagnosis – Definition and Historical/Systemic Basis | Dr. Alfiee |
| 1:15 PM – 1:20 PM ET | Run Poll #2 | Tech Team |
| 1:20 PM – 1:35 PM ET |
Topic #2 How to Recognize |
Dr. Alfiee |
| 1:35 – 1:40 PM ET | Poll #3 | Tech Team |
| 1:40 – 2:00 PM ET |
Topic #3 What does this mean to you |
Dr. Alfiee |
| 2:00 – 2:30 PM ET | Q& A Plus Wrap UP | Dr. Alfiee & Stark Representative |
Session 2: April 6, 2021, 3:00 to 5:00 PM
Overview of Course
- Create a personal and professional vision of mental illness diagnosis that limits and reduces racial bias.
- Articulate an understanding as to how differential diagnosis happens in clinical practice.
- Discuss factors and systems that contribute to differential diagnosis in mental health.
- List concrete steps that practitioners can take to guard against creating differential diagnoses.
- Model an intervention that could be taken to minimize/correct the negative impact of differential diagnoses that have already occurred.
| TIME | ACTIVITY | WHO? |
| *2:45 PM ET | Open Meeting Room for Team | AAKOMA Tech Team |
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2:50 PM ET |
Presenters & AAKOMA Team Tech Check
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Dr. Alfiee, Erica, Imani, Stark Representatives |
| 2 :55 – 3 :00 PM ET |
Participants are let into Meeting Room
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AAKOMA Tech Team |
| 3 :00 – 3 :10 PM ET |
Welcome Message from Stark and reminder of instructions for the day
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Stark Representative |
| 3:10 – 3:20 PM ET |
Dr. Alfiee opening remarks for afternoon sessions
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Dr. Alfiee |
| 3:20 – 3:30 PM ET |
Run Poll #1 |
Tech Team |
| 3:30 – 3:55 PM ET | Topic #1 – How Differential Diagnosis Looks in a Clinical Setting | Dr. Alfiee |
| 3:55 – 4:00 PM ET | Vignette #1 | Tech Team |
| 4:00 – 4:15 PM ET |
Topic #2 – Interventions to Correct vs Systemic Change to Prevent
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Dr. Alfiee |
| 4:15 – 4:20 PM ET | Vignette #2 | Tech Team |
| 4:20 – 4:35 PM ET |
Topic #3 – Examining Individual Attitudes
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Dr. Alfiee |
| 4:35 – 4:45 PM ET | Q&A Session | Dr. Alfiee |
| 4:45 – 4:50 PM ET | Poll #3 | Tech Team |
| 4:50 – 5:00 PM ET | Wrap Up & Look Ahead | Dr. Alfiee & Stark Representative |
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