Full Description
Deliberate practice exercises help students and trainees rehearse fundamental cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) skills to develop basic competence and hone their own personal therapeutic style.
Each book in the Essentials of Deliberate Practice series contain customized exercises consisting of role-playing scenarios in which two trainees act as a client and a therapist, switching back and forth under the guidance of a supervisor. The trainee playing the therapist improvises appropriate and authentic responses to a series of client statements organized into three difficulty levels-beginner, intermediate, and advanced-that reflect common problems and concerns encountered by CBT practitioners.
The first exercises each focus on a single skill, such as establishing goals for treatment assigning and reviewing between-session exercises working with various client cognitions, behaviors, and emotions and addressing relationship ruptures and client resistance. These are followed by two comprehensive exercises-an annotated transcript and free-form mock therapy sessions-in which trainees integrate these essential skills into a single CBT session.
Step-by-step instructions guide participants through the exercises, identify criteria for mastering each skill, and explain how to monitor and adjust difficulty. Guidelines to help trainers and trainees get the most out of training are also provided.
Contents
Series Preface
Tony Rousmaniere and Alexandre Vaz
Acknowledgments
Part I. Overview and Instructions
Chapter . Introduction and Overview of Deliberate Practice and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Chapter 2. Instructions for the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Deliberate Practice Exercises
Part II. Deliberate Practice Exercises for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Skills
Exercises for Beginner Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Skills
Exercise . Explaining the Treatment Rationale for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Exercise 2. Establishing Goals
Exercise 3. Negotiating a Session Agenda
Exercise 4. Assigning and Reviewing Between-Session Activities
Exercises for Intermediate Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Skills
Exercise 5. Working With Cognitions
Exercise . Working With Behaviors
Exercise 7. Working With Emotions
Exercises for Advanced Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Skills
Exercise 8. Adherence Flexibility
Exercise 9. Responding to Therapeutic Alliance Ruptures
Exercise . Responding to Client Resistance
Comprehensive Exercises
Exercise . Annotated Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Practice Session Transcripts
Exercise 2. Mock Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Sessions
Part III. Strategies for Enhancing the Deliberate Practice Exercises
Chapter 3. How to Get the Most Out of Deliberate Practice: Additional Guidance for Trainers and Trainees
Appendix A. Difficulty Assessments and Adjustments
Appendix B. Deliberate Practice Diary Form
Appendix C. Sample Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Syllabus With Embedded Deliberate Practice Exercises
References
Index
About the Authors
About the Series Editors
