Full Description
This book is a step-by-step guide to using deliberate practice as an individualized professional development plan for psychotherapists to improve the quality of their service using client outcome data.
Deliberate practice is a systematic approach for improving psychotherapy outcomes, one clinician at a time. This step-by-step guide to deliberate practice demonstrates how to collect and use client outcome data to create an individualized professional development plan to improve the quality of your service.
Your goal is to help more of your psychotherapy clients get better. For those who do realize gains, your goal is to help them experience a greater degree of improvement as a result of working with you. In this book you will learn how to conduct routine outcome measurements to gather data from your own practice. Detailed instructions and examples walk you through the process of determining your baseline performance, identifying and addressing your strengths and deficits as a practitioner, and assessing your progress.
Richly-drawn case studies and stories from the business world and popular culture illustrate how research from the field of expert performance offers a different paradigm for professional development that departs from the field amp rsquo s traditional emphasis on learning therapy models and techniques.
Contents
Foreword by K. Anders Ericsson
Preface: Better Results Are Within Reach
Acknowledgments
I. The State of Our Art
. What Therapists Will Say, Won't Say, and Can't Say
2. What Do We Really Know About Psychotherapy After All?
II. Expertise and Expert Performance: The Evidence Base
3. Learning From the Experts on Expertise
4. What Is (and Is Not) Deliberate Practice?
III. Getting Started: What to Do First to Achieve Better Results
5. Baseline Matters
. How to Find Your Baseline
7. Making Sense of Your Baseline
IV. Moving Forward: Identifying What to Deliberately Practice
8. Mining Your Data for Better Results
9. How Average Leads to Better Results
. How Being Bad Can Make You Better
. What Matters Most for Better Results
2. A Study in Deliberate Practice
V. How to Deliberately Practice
3. amp quot Yeah, But What Am I Supposed to Do? amp quot
4. Designing a System of Deliberate Practice
5. Epilogue
Appendix A: Reliable and Clinically Significant Change Chart for the Outcome Rating Scale
Appendix B: Calculating a Standard Deviation
Appendix C: Taxonomy of Deliberate Practice Activities in Psychotherapy--Supervisor/Coach Version (Version 5. )
Appendix D: Taxonomy of Deliberate Practice Activities in Psychotherapy--Therapist Version
Appendix E: Troubleshooting Tips
References
Index
About the Authors
