Description
Book SynopsisDeliberate practice exercises provide trainees and students opportunities to develop a more multicultural, intersectional approach to psychotherapy and hone their own personal therapeutic style.
These exercises present role-playing scenarios in which two trainees actas a client and a clinician, switching back and forth under the guidance of a supervisor. The clinician improvises appropriate and authentic responsesto client statements organized into three difficulty levels—beginner, intermediate, and advanced—that reflect common client questions and concerns.
Each of the first 12 exercises focuses on a single skill, such as developing cultural self-awareness and cultural humility, exploring cultural implications and explanations of clients’ concerns, responding to resistance, and repairing culturally based ruptures in the working alliance. A comprehensive mock therapy exercise follows in which these essential skills are brought together into a single multiculturaltherapy session.
Step-by-step instructionsguide participants through the exercises, identify criteria for mastering each skill, andexplain how to monitorand adjust difficulty. Guidelines to helptrainers and trainees get the most out of training are also provided.
Table of Contents Series Preface
Tony Rousmaniere and Alexandre Vaz
Acknowledgments
Part I. Overview and Instructions
Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview of Deliberate Practice and Multicultural Therapy
Chapter 2. Instructions for the Multicultural Therapy Deliberate Practice Exercises
Part II. Deliberate Practice Exercises for Multicultural Therapy Skills
Exercises for Beginner Multicultural Therapy Skills
Exercise 1. Therapist Self-Awareness: Cultural Humility I
Exercise 2. Assessing Client Expectations
Exercise 3. Reflecting Content Through a Cultural Lens
Exercise 4. Inquiring About Identity: Cultural Opportunities I
Exercises for Intermediate Multicultural Therapy Skills
Exercise 5. Working With Emotions in Context
Exercise 6. Maintaining a Not-Knowing Stance: Cultural Humility II
Exercise 7. Inquiring About Cultural Implications of the Problem: Cultural Opportunities II
Exercise 8. Acknowledging Therapist Limitations
Exercises for Advanced Multicultural Therapy Skills
Exercise 9. Gathering Information About Safety Concerns
Exercise 10. Talking About Sex and Success
Exercise 11. Responding to Resistance and Ambivalence
Exercise 12. Repairing Ruptures Due to Microaggressions
Comprehensive Exercise
Exercise 13. Mock Multicultural Therapy 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 Multicultural Therapy Syllabus With Embedded Deliberate Practice Exercises
References
Index
About the Authors
