Main description:

Deliberate 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 act as a client and a clinician, switching back and forth under the guidance of a supervisor. The clinician improvises appropriate and authentic responses to client statements organized into three difficulty levels-beginner, intermediate, and advanced-that reflect common client questions and concerns.

Each of the first 13 exercises focuses on a single skill, such as developing cultural self-awareness and cultural humility, exploring cultural implications and explanations of clients' concerns, and repairing culturally based ruptures in the working alliance. Two comprehensive exercises follow in which trainees integrate these essential skills into a single multicultural therapy session.

Step-by-step instructions guide participants through the exercises, identify criteria for mastering each skill, and explain how to monitor and adjust difficulty. Guidelines to help trainers and trainees get the most out of training are also provided.

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
Exercise 2. Cultural Comfort
Exercise 3. Treatment Rationale: Explaining Therapy
Exercise 4. Empathy
Exercise 5. Reflecting Meaning
Exercises for Intermediate Multicultural Therapy Skills
Exercise 6. Cultural Humility: Maintaining a "Not Knowing" Stance
Exercise 7. Cultural Opportunities I: Inquiring About Cultural Implications of the Problem
Exercise 8. Cultural Opportunities II: Inquiring About Cultural Explanations of Distress
Exercise 9. Responding to Resistance and Ambivalence
Exercises for Advanced Multicultural Therapy Skills
Exercise 10. Gathering Information About Safety Concerns
Exercise 11. Talking About Sex and Success
Exercise 12. Self-Disclosure and Acknowledging Therapist Limitations
Exercise 13. Intersectionality Repair and Rupture Repair
Comprehensive Exercises
Exercise 14. Multicultural Therapy Practice Session Transcript
Exercise 15. Mock Multicultural Therapy 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. Deliberate Practice Diary Form
Appendix C. Sample Multicultural Therapy Syllabus With Embedded Deliberate Practice Exercises
References
About the Authors
Index