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Identifying and Addressing Ableism within Psychological Practices

  • 6 Jun 2025
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Zoom

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Program Description:

Ableist thoughts, behaviors, and values lead to bias, prejudice, and discrimination.  Because disability is often excluded as a dimension of diversity, disability and ableism are less understood than other minoritized groups/issues.  By understanding what ableism looks like in mental health treatment, therapists and clinicians can begin working to increase overall treatment access for disabled clients.  Additionally, with a better understanding of their own implicit and explicit biases about disability, therapists and clinicians can improve their clinical practice with disabled clients and colleagues.  

Level of Instruction:

Introductory

Learning Objectives: 

  1. Describe three models of disability.

  2. Identify ableism biases, both implicit and explicit.

  3. Analyze disability as an identity.

  4. Assess forms of ableism in current psychological practices.

About the Presenter:

Katlin Schultz, Psy.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at The Ohio State University. She earned her doctorate from Adler University in 2019, with an emphasis in Primary Care Psychology and Behavioral Medicine. She completed her internship at the VA Eastern Kansas Health Care Medical Center and completed her 2-year post-doctoral fellowship in Rehabilitation Psychology at the VA Long Beach Healthcare System. She has been on faculty at OSU since 2021, and currently provides services through rehabilitation psychology outpatient, psychosocial oncology, and is the rehabilitation psychology lead for the interdisciplinary Post-COVID Recovery Clinic. She specializes in working with adults with chronic health conditions and disabilities, including spinal cord injury, chronic pain, cancer, as well as other injuries or medical events. Clinical areas of focus are on coping and adaptation to chronic health conditions and disability, multiculturalism and intersectionality within the therapy process, addressing ableism and healthcare disparities within the healthcare system, and working within multidisciplinary teams in order to support whole-health initiatives. 

Her approach to psychotherapy treatment is from an acceptance and commitment therapy and disability affirmative lens, assisting patients in coping and adapting to changes resulting from chronic health conditions and/or disability, and supporting persons in leading an engaged, meaningful, and fulfilling life. Outside of work, she enjoy spending time outdoors, exploring new places, playing board games and spending time with friends and family.

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NHPA prices workshops by CE credit hour: 
$25.00 per CE for members; $35.00 per CE for non-members 

Paying with a check: 
Checks must be received within one week of the event. If payment has not been received, registrant will still have option to pay online with a credit card up until the day before the program. If an invoice remains open on the day of the event, the registrant will not be allowed to attend.

Cancellation policy: 
Refunds, minus a 10% cancellation fee, will be issued for all cancellations received two weeks prior to the start of the course. No refunds or vouchers will be made thereafter. No-shows are not refunded.

Attendance policy:
Full attendance is required to obtain CEs per NHPA policy. No partial credit will be given. Those who attend the workshop and complete the evaluation form will receive 1 continuing education credit. Please note that APA CE rules require that we only give credit to those who attend the entire workshop. Those arriving after the scheduled start time or leaving before the workshop is completed will not receive CE credits. 

Registrations are Transferable: 
Registrants can transfer an event confirmation to another individual. The NHPA office must be notified of the transfer at least 24 hours prior to the event. 

This program is sponsored by the New Hampshire Psychological Association. NHPA is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. NHPA maintains responsibility for this program and its content.


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