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This article describes a Diversity Dialogue Facilitator Training Program for Trainees, an innovative project that prepares psychology and psychiatry learners to facilitate diversity dialogues with healthcare professionals (i.e., clinical and research faculty, staff, and learners) in academic healthcare settings. Through participating in this program, trainees learn to facilitate discussions in which participants reflect upon oppression, discrimination, and disparities; explore their biases; connect and exchange views with colleagues regarding challenging societal events; and delineate action steps for advancing equity, inclusion, social responsivity, and justice in their professional and personal lives. After outlining contextual factors that informed project development, implementation, and dissemination, the iterative process of creating and implementing the training curriculum is detailed, with the aim of offering a model for other academic health center-based training programs interested in establishing a similar initiative. Lessons learned also are shared with the hope of contributing to future efforts to advance training in diversity dialogue facilitation and expand the role of psychologists in medical settings.
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This project was supported by a seed grant from the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers in response to the APPIC Call to Action on Equity, Inclusion, Diversity, Justice, and Social Responsivity.
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Upshaw, N.C., Lim, N., Graves, C.C. et al. Training Psychology and Psychiatry Diversity Dialogue Facilitators. J Clin Psychol Med Settings (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10880-023-09978-w
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