Description
This text explores how psychotherapists can use deliberate practice to improve their clinical effectiveness. By sourcing through decades of research on how experts in diverse fields achieve skill mastery, the author proposes it is possible for any therapist to dramatically improve their effectiveness. However, achieving expertise isn’t easy. To improve, therapists must focus on clinical challenges and reconsider century-old methods of clinical training from the ground up. This volume presents a step-by-step program to engage readers in deliberate practice to improve clinical effectiveness across the therapists’ entire career span, from beginning training for graduate students to continuing education for licensed and advanced clinicians.
Table of Contents
Prologue
Acknowledgments
Part I: The Path to Deliberate Practice 1. The Path to Competence 2. The Path to Expertise 3. The Experiment, Phase 1: Deliberate Practice 4. The Experiment, Phase 2: Solitary Deliberate Practice
Part II: The Science of Expertise: Learning from Other Fields 5. Expertise in Medicine: Focus on Clinical Outcomes 6. Expertise in Performing Arts: Focus on Skills 7. Expertise in Difficult Situations: Experience Refined by Feedback 8. Expertise in Spiritual Practices: Addressing Experiential Avoidance
Part III: Developing Your Own Deliberate Practice Routine 9. The Principles of Practice 10. Deliberate Practice Exercises for Basic Skills 11. Deliberate Practice Exercises for Specific Models
Part IV: Sustaining Deliberate Practice 12. The Inner Game: Self-Regulation, Grit, and Harmonious Passion 13. Advice for Supervisees: Finding Your Path to Expertise 14. Advice for Supervisors: Integrating Deliberate Practice into Supervision 15. Advice for Mid- and Later Career: Lifelong Learning 16. Challenges to Deliberate Practice 17. Looking Forward
Epilogue
Appendix: Videotaping Psychotherapy
References
Index
