For instance, clients of color, especially Black individuals, are more likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia and less likely to be screened or diagnosed with mood disorders than White clients
In this section, I find this to be an example of clinician automatic thoughts that lead to distorted judgments. Relating to class, we learned that CBT uses thought records and distortions. I strongly believe that providers need to have the same practice. The alliance can split when bias enters. In class, we highlighted that it is important to repair ruptures through empathic validation.