2nd Edition
Deliberate Practice for Psychotherapists A Guide to Improving Clinical Effectiveness
This book 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, this book shows it is possible for any therapist to dramatically improve their clinical skills. To improve, therapists must focus on clinical challenges and reconsider century-old methods of clinical training from the ground up. This second edition traces recent developments in research and 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.
Enriched with insightful clinical experiences and anecdotes, Deliberate Practice for Psychotherapists is an important read for graduate students, trainees, and practicing psychotherapists.
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. The Research on Deliberate Practice 17.Clarifying Deliberate Practice from Traditional Training 18.Challenges to Deliberate Practice 19.The Sentio Supervision Model
Biography
Tony Rousmaniere, PsyD, is Executive Director of Sentio Counseling, Program Director of the Sentio MFT Program, and president of the Psychotherapy Division of the American Psychological Association.
'Provides incredibly important information for trainees, practitioners, and supervisors across all levels of experience.'
Mark J. Hilsenroth, PhD, professor, Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology and past editor of the journal Psychotherapy.
'…Candid, bold, challenging, and constantly tied to clinical reality, this engrossing and innovative book offers creative insights and valuable tools to help clinicians become more effective, irrespective of their theoretical orientation and level of experience.'
Louis Castonguay, PhD, Penn State University; former president, Society for Psychotherapy Research.
'In Deliberate Practice for Psychotherapists: A Guide to Improving Clinical Effectiveness, …Rousmaniere provides a remarkably innovative and valuable contribution to the field of psychotherapy that draws upon observations and methods about the mastery of skills sets from multiple different professions. As such, I believe this book provides incredibly important information for trainees, practitioners, and supervisors across all levels of experience.'Mark J. Hilsenroth, PhD, Adelphi University.
'Some psychotherapists consistently realize better client outcomes than their peers and the data show that they achieve this by having made a long-term commitment to engaging in deliberate practice (DP). But many psychotherapists remain unsure of just what DP is or how they might incorporate it in their own work. Rousmaniere answers these questions in a highly effective and engaging way. He takes the reader along on his own quest to become the best therapist he can and as he does, anchors his observations solidly in the research literature. The result is an essential guide for therapists for using DP to increase their expertise.'Rodney Goodyear, professor, University of Redlands; emeritus professor of education (counseling psychology), University of Southern California.
