Aiming Treatment at the Right Target: Commonly Overlooked Diagnostic Errors with Black Clients
Online Training for Clinicians of Color
About this Training
The effects of racialization and marginalization on Black clients can often be overlooked, leading to underdiagnosis, overdiagnosis, or total misdiagnosis. This webinar addresses overlooked clinical bias and diagnostic disparities that affect treatment for people of Black/African American ancestry. The program will assist in developing the participants’ cultural consciousness and help to improve the counseling experience and effectiveness for Black American clients.
About Your Trainer
LaVerne Collins, PhD
LaVerne Hanes Collins, PhD is the owner of New Seasons Counseling, Training, and Consulting, providing counseling services in VA, NC, SC, and GA. Dr. Collins is an author, trainer, speaker, ordained minister, and award-winning mental health racial equity trainer/strategist with special interests in multicultural responsiveness, race-based needs and disparities, organizational dynamics, and faith-based competencies. Her work has been published in Counselor Magazine, Counseling Today Magazine, Authority Magazine, USTimes.com, counseling textbooks, and encyclopedias, and as one of the foremost leading trainers on the intersection of racial discrimination and mental health, Dr. Colliins is changing the status quo of mental health service delivery by equipping counselors and developing C.E. trainers who want to specialize in race-based cultural sensitivity in mental health. She is the author of the book, “Overlooked: Counselor Insights for the Unspoken Issues in Black American Life” (Rowman & Littlefield Publishing, 2023), which made the list of Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars in the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (December 2023).
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