The New York City Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Association
Presents:
NYC-CBT Black Lives Matter
Panel Discussion
Applying Social Justice in Daily Clinical Practice
NYC-CBT supports racial equality and social justice. What can we do as mental health practitioners?
Over the past several months we have publicly encountered--and been more attuned to--instances of heinous racism, oppression and violence toward individuals of color. Racial disparities in COVID highlight the effects of systemic racism on our healthcare system and, accordingly, our mental healthcare system.
How do we apply evidence-based treatment to the BIPOC patient and their individual context? What is the work we can each do to promote anti-racist attitudes and behaviors?
We are thrilled to bring you Dr. Karinn Glover and Dr. Dinelia Rosa who will delve deeper into the medical and mental health disparities, discuss new approaches clinicians can apply, and lead us in a conversation about what we can each do to promote social justice as a mental health practitioner.
"The Impact of Racism on the Black and Latinx Body and Mind"
and
"Identifying and Addressing Our Own Perceptions and Biases around Racial Injustices:
The Work Starts at Home"
by
Dr. Karinn Glover, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Dr. Dinelia Rosa, Ph.D.
Director of the Dean-Hope Center for Educational and Psychological Services, Teacher's College, Columbia University
Wednesday, September 30th
Speaker Presentations: 10:00-11:00am
Q & A: 11:00-11:30am
This webinar will be conducted via Zoom.
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Established professionals, early career professionals, and students from all applied, research, and academic settings are invited to attend.
Topic Descriptions:
"Identifying and addressing our own perceptions and biases around racial injustices: The work starts at home"
By Dr. Dinelia Rosa, Ph.D.
To work effectively with BIPOC, clinicians must go through an ongoing reflective process to increase awareness of potential biases around BIPOC and racial social justice. This includes the impact of having grown up in a world constantly endorsing White privilege as the main core of values on the way we, clinicians see the world. Only after there is a genuine recognition of this, can clinicians step back and try to relate to clients from BIPOC backgrounds in a genuine and transparent way. Some CBT techniques can help in this process.
"The Impact of Racism on the Black and Latinx Body and Mind"
By Dr. Karinn Glover, MD, MPH
The medical field formerly held marginalized people completely responsible for their mental and physical health outcomes. Extensive public health research has shed light on the impact of experiences of discrimination on not only blood pressure, diabetes, but also depression, anxiety and trauma. This talk will focus on the ways research is helping to shape new approaches to mind-body health, health policy, and conversations about equality.
Speaker Bios:
Dr. Dinelia Rosa, Ph.D.
Dr. Dinelia Rosa is director of the Dean-Hope Center for Educational and Psychological Services, the training clinic at Teachers College, Columbia University. She obtained her Clinical Psychology degree at The Derner Institute, Adelphi University. Prior to her current job, Dr. Rosa worked for 18 years throughout New York City in various clinical and educational settings predominantly with children and families from diverse backgrounds.
Dr. Rosa is a founding member of the Health Psychology rotation in the Bellevue-NYU Internship Program. She worked in the Cardiac subspecialty clinic and offered support groups for post-operative patients with coronary artery disease. Additionally, she worked in the Breast Cancer and Infertility clinics also in Bellevue Medical Center. For the last 15 years, Dr. Rosa volunteers in Latino Share, a non-profit organization offering support groups to women survivors of breast and ovarian cancer. There she ran focus groups for a Novela Project, aimed at developing a Spanish written story in a soap opera format to educate Latinas about breast cancer in a culturally- sensitive way. In 2010, she co-authored the book, Grief Therapy with Latinos: Integrating Culture for Clinicians with Dr. Carmen Vazquez.
Dr. Rosa is a founding member of the Division of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity at the New York State Psychological Association (NYSPA). In 2014, Dr. Rosa became NYSPA’s first Latino President. She is also very active at the APA serving as a Diversity Delegate representing NYSPA in advocacy efforts, Past-President in 2017 of the APA Division of State, Provincial and Territories State Associations, Board of Professional Affairs, and must currently Commissioner on the APA Committee on Accreditation. Dr. Rosa is a current facilitator of the APA Diversity Leadership Training Institute.
At Teachers College, Dr. Rosa coordinates the practicum training for students of five graduate programs. She is a professor and a clinical supervisor for the Clinical Psychology Program where she also teaches a required course on diversity to the doctoral students in clinical psychology. In 2014, Dr. Rosa was the Principal Investigator to a HRSA two-year training grant aimed at providing integrated health training to six doctoral students from the TC Clinical and Counseling programs including three Spanish-bilingual students. She has been invited to speak in radio and television, and offers seminars on mental health issues with the Latino community to professionals and community-based organizations. Dr. Rosa is the recipient of the 2007 NYSPA Service Award and in 2016 she received the highly recognized Karl F. Heiser APA Presidential Award for Advocacy for work achieved during her presidency in NYSPA to pass a Neuro-technician bill. Dr. Rosa has a small private practice in Spanish bilingual psychological and psychoeducational evaluations for children in foster care.
Dr. Karinn Glover, MD, MPH
Born in the Bronx and raised in White Plains, New York, Dr. Glover has spent the greater part of her adult life following her interests in science, health and improving life for the underserved.
After graduating from Howard University with a BA in History, Dr. Glover worked at Essence Magazine and then as an Account Executive for Verizon. She followed her curiosity about medicine and ultimately attended SUNY Downstate College of Medicine and obtained a Master of Public Health from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health via the highly competitive Macy Scholars Program.
Currently Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Dr. Glover teaches psychopharmacology and aspects of psychotherapy to Internal Medicine and Family Medicine residents. She is a consulting psychiatrist in the primary care division of Montefiore Health System. In this position, she is a member of a system-wide collaborative care based program to provide direct psychiatric care to medically and psychosocially complex patients in the Bronx. Dr. Glover has authored a peer-reviewed article on mental disorders in primary care, contributed to a textbook on psychiatric treatment in primary care and has extensive experience in psychopharmacology and substance disorder treatment.
Dr. Glover has also contributed to various media outlets on a range of topics related to mental health and wellness. She uses mindfulness-based techniques in her psychiatry practice, in her career coaching for professionals from marginalized cultures, and her leadership of discussions of the impact of racism on physical and mental health.