Deliberate Practice for Psychotherapists: A Guide to Improving Clinical Effectiveness

by Tony Rousmaniere

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032491042
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/30/2024
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	242
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

'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.

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