Episode 433: Intersections of Accessibility & Technology in Therapy Practice
Release Date: 09/13/2024
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info_outlineWelcome solo and group practice owners! We are Liath Dalton and Evan Dumas, your co-hosts of Group Practice Tech.
In our latest episode, we chat with therapist Emily Decker about how to make group practice more accessible, both for clients and staff.
We discuss:
- The number of mental health clinicians who are disabled
- Navigating identity as a disabled person and as a helping professional, especially where those identities intersect
- Practice culture and neurodivergence
- Ways to create a disability affirming culture within group practice (for clients and staff)
- Unpacking what professionalism means
- What accessibility means
- What disability means
- Internalized ableism
- Unpacking what’s actually needed for therapy and what isn’t
- Universal Design, and how to apply it for therapy practices
- Our upcoming CE training with Emily on this topic
Listen here: https://personcenteredtech.com/group/podcast/
For more, visit our website.
PCT Resources
- 2 legal-ethical CE credit hour training (live and recorded), presented by Emily Decker, MS, LPC, NCC, Can You Hear Me? The Legal and Ethical Role of Accessibility in Anti-Oppressive and Neurodivergent-Affirming Teletherapy
- This training aims to create familiarity and comfort for therapists providing teletherapy and combat stigma and inaccessibility in teletherapy. The conversation is situated within an anti-oppressive and neurodivergent-affirming framework, connecting concepts of accessibility and disability justice with mental health care, and provides an overview of legal and ethical issues pertaining to accessibility within teletherapy, including identifying and dispelling common myths about accessibility and disability, and identifying specific, concrete resources for therapists to use to enhance the accessibility of their services.
Resources Recommended by Emily
- Book: Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally by Emily Ladau
- DARN Disability 2023 conference recordings (free! and geared towards educators and supervisors)
- Web Accessibility and the ADA
- Textbook: Disability-Affirmative Therapy by Rhoda Olkin
- This author also has a webinar on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEJ46Rfz2kc
- Textbook: Disability As Diversity by Erin E. Andrews
- Book: Disability Visibiltiy by Alice Wong (also has a great website and podcast by the same name)