Full Description
Deliberate practice exercises provide trainees and students an opportunity to build competence in essential interpersonal therapy skills while developing their own personal therapeutic style.
These exercises present role-playing scenarios in which two trainees act as a client and a clinician, switching back and forth under the guidance of a supervisor. The clinician improvises appropriate and authentic responses to client statements organized into three difficulty levels-beginner, intermediate, and advanced-that reflect common client questions and concerns.
Each of the first exercises focuses on a single skill, including developing an interpersonal inventory of patients' relationships, building social skills, and helping patients connect with their own thoughts and emotions and empathize with others. Two comprehensive exercises follow in which trainees integrate these essential skills into a single 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 Interpersonal Psychotherapy
Chapter 2. Instructions for the Interpersonal Psychotherapy Deliberate Practice Exercises
Part II. Deliberate Practice Exercises for Interpersonal Psychotherapy Skills
Exercises for Beginner Interpersonal Psychotherapy Skills
Exercise . Presenting the Interpersonal Inventory: Interpersonal Inventory I
Exercise 2. Exploring Interpersonal Relationships: Interpersonal Inventory II
Exercise 3. Clarifications
Exercises for Intermediate Interpersonal Psychotherapy Skills
Exercise 4. Interpersonal Framing of Distress
Exercise 5. Helping the Client to Describe Their Distress and Need for Support
Exercise . Reinforcement of Effective Communication
Exercises for Advanced Interpersonal Psychotherapy Skills
Exercise 7. Communication Analysis
Exercise 8. Generating Communication Options
Exercise 9. Mobilizing Social Support
Exercise . Motivating Interpersonal Action
Comprehensive Exercises
Exercise . Annotated Interpersonal Psychotherapy Practice Session Transcript
Exercise 2. Mock Interpersonal Psychotherapy 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. Additional Approaches and Troubleshooting When Implementing the Interpersonal Inventory
Appendix D. Sample Interpersonal Psychotherapy Syllabus With Embedded Deliberate Practice Exercises
References
Index
About the Authors
