Main description:

Deliberate practice is a systematic approach for improving psychotherapy outcomes, one clinician at a time. Written to be used in conjunction with Better Results, this book offers guidance from leading experts in designing deliberate practice activities specific to the individual practitioner.

This book demonstrates how to collect and use client outcome data to create an individualized professional development plan to improve the quality of service. Along with providing guidance in understanding and mapping individual data onto the taxonomy for deliberate practice (TDPA), the expert chapter authors detail a number of factors that influence therapy outcomes, including client factors, therapist factors, client-therapist relationships, and more. It aims to assist therapists in further understanding and applying the concepts needed to gain more effective outcomes.

Contents:

Foreword: Bruce Wampold
1. Introduction: Identifying What to Deliberately Practice
Scott Miller & Daryl Chow
2. Understanding and Mapping your Individual Data onto the Taxonomy for Deliberate Practice (TDPA)
Daryl Chow & Susanne Bargmann
3. Client Factors
Joshua Swift & Jesse Owen
4. Therapist Factors
Helene Nissen-Lie & Erkki Heinonen
5. Relationship
John Norcross
6. Hope and Expectation
Michael Constantino
7. Structure/Focus
Noah Yulish
8. Designing a System of Deliberate Practice
Daryl Chow & Scott D. Miller
9. The Last Chapter (but not the last word) on Deliberate Practice