Full Description
Deliberate practice exercises help trainees achieve competence in essential accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy skills and apply them in a variety of contexts while honing their own personal style.
These exercises present 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 therapist improvises appropriate and authentic responses to client statements organized into three difficulty levels—beginner, intermediate, and advanced.
Each of the first 12 exercises focuses on a single skill to help clients access core emotions, process past traumas, and build secure attachments. The skills include moment-to-moment tracking, validating and reframing anxieties and defenses, and initiating portrayals (i.e., speaking to an imagined other or self). Two comprehensive exercises follow in which trainees integrate these skills into a single session.
Step-by-step instructions guide participants through the exercises, identify criteria for mastering the skills, 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 1. Introduction and Overview of Deliberate Practice and Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy
Chapter 2. Instructions for the Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy Deliberate Practice Exercises
Part II. Deliberate Practice Exercises for Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy Skills
Exercises for Beginner Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy Skills
Exercise 1. Moment-to-Moment Tracking
Exercise 2. Exploring and Staying with Physical Experience
Exercise 3. Undoing Aloneness
Exercise 4. Affirming
Exercises for Intermediate Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy Skills
Exercise 5. Self-Involving Self-Disclosure
Exercise 6. Self-Revealing Self-Disclosure
Exercise 7. Metaprocessing
Exercises for Advanced Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy Skills
Exercise 8. Working With Anxiety
Exercise 9. Affirmative Work With Defenses
Exercise 10. Initiating Portrayals
Exercise 11. Privileging Transformance Strivings
Exercise 12. Metatherapeutic Processing
Comprehensive Exercises
Exercise 13. Annotated Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy Practice Session Transcript
Exercise 14. Mock Accelerated Experiential Dynamic 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. Sample Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy Syllabus With Embedded Deliberate Practice Exercises
References
Index
About the Authors
