Main description:

This book presents deliberate practice exercises in which students and trainees rehearse fundamental cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) skills until they become natural and automatic. Instructions guide readers through role-plays in which two participants play a client and a therapist, switching back and forth under a supervisor's guidance. The therapist improvises responses to common client statements, ranging in difficulty from beginner to advanced, allowing them to hone their own personal therapeutic style and develop basic competence.

Contents:

Series Preface
Tony Rousmaniere and Alexandre Vaz
Acknowledgments
Part I: Overview and Instructions
Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview of Deliberate Practice and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
Chapter 2: Instructions for the CBT Deliberate Practice Exercises
Part II: Deliberate Practice Exercises for Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Skills
Exercises for Beginner CBT Skills
Exercise 1: Explaining the Treatment Rationale for CBT
Exercise 2: Establishing Goals
Exercise 3: Negotiating a Session Agenda
Exercise 4: Assigning and Reviewing Between Session Activities
Exercises for Intermediate CBT Skills
Exercise 5: Working With Cognitions
Exercise 6: Working With Behaviors
Exercise 7: Working With Emotions
Exercises for Advanced CBT Skills
Exercise 8: Adherence Flexibility
Exercise 9: Responding to Therapeutic Alliance Ruptures
Exercise 10: Responding to Client Resistance
Comprehensive Exercises
Exercise 11: Annotated CBT Practice Session Transcript
Exercise 12: Mock CBT Sessions
Part III: Strategies for Enhancing the Deliberate Practice Exercises
Chapter 3: Additional Guidance for Trainers and Trainees: How to Get the Most Out of Deliberate Practice
Appendix A: Difficulty Assessments and Adjustments
Appendix B: Sample CBT Syllabus With Embedded Deliberate Practice Exercises
References
About the Authors
Index