Do you have unconscious bias against yourself?
As part of my Counselling Degree, I had to do two professional placements. For one of them, I worked five weeks full-time at a psychiatric hospital, helping facilitate group work for patients with mood disorders – anxiety, depression, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
One of the things that struck me was the unconscious bias of the patients and some of the staff…