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Book SynopsisThis book is a step-by-step guide to using deliberate practice as an individualized professional development plan for psychotherapists to improve the quality of their service using client outcome data. Deliberate practice is a systematic approach for improving psychotherapy outcomes, one clinician at a time. This step-by-step guide to deliberate practice demonstrates how to collect and use client outcome data to create an individualized professional development plan to improve the quality of your service.
Your goal is to help more of your psychotherapy clients get better. For those who do realize gains, your goal is to help them experience a greater degree of improvement as a result of working with you. In this book you will learn how to conduct routine outcome measurements to gather data from your own practice. Detailed instructions and examples walk you through the process of determining your baseline performance, identifying and addressing your streng
Table of ContentsForeword by K. Anders Ericsson
Preface: Better Results Are Within Reach
Acknowledgments
I. The State of Our Art 1. What Therapists Will Say, Won't Say, and Can't Say
2. What Do We Really Know About Psychotherapy After All?
II. Expertise and Expert Performance: The Evidence Base 3. Learning From the Experts on Expertise
4. What Is (and Is Not) Deliberate Practice?
III. Getting Started: What to Do First to Achieve Better Results 5. Baseline Matters
6. How to Find Your Baseline
7. Making Sense of Your Baseline
IV. Moving Forward: Identifying What to Deliberately Practice 8. Mining Your Data for Better Results
9. How Average Leads to Better Results
10. How Being Bad Can Make You Better
11. What Matters Most for Better Results
12. A Study in Deliberate Practice
V. How to Deliberately Practice 13."Yeah, But What Am
I Supposed to Do?"
14. Designing a System of Deliberate Practice
15. Epilogue
Appendix A: Reliable and Clinically Significant Change Chart for the Outcome Rating Scale
Appendix B: Calculating a Standard Deviation
Appendix C: Taxonomy of Deliberate Practice Activities in Psychotherapy--Supervisor/Coach Version (Version 5.1)
Appendix D: Taxonomy of Deliberate Practice Activities in Psychotherapy--Therapist Version
Appendix E: Troubleshooting Tips
References
Index
About the Authors
