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 strengths and deficits as a practitioner, and assessing your progress. Richly-drawn case studies and stories from the business world and popular culture illustrate how research from the field of expert performance offers a different paradigm for professional development that departs from the field's traditional emphasis on learning therapy models and techniques.
Dedication Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. The State of our Art Chapter 1: What Therapists Will Say, Can't Say, and Won't Say Chapter 2: What Do We Really Know About Psychotherapy, After All? Part II. Expertise and Expert Performance: The Evidence Base Chapter 3: Learning from the Experts on Expertise Chapter 4: What is (and is not) Deliberate Practice? Part III. Getting Started: What To Do First to Achieve Better Results Chapter 5: Your Baseline Matters Chapter 6: How to Find Your Baseline Chapter 7: Making Sense of Your Baseline Part IV. Moving Forward: Identifying What to Deliberately Practice Chapter 8: Mining Your Data for Better Results Chapter 9: Why Average Isn't All That Bad Chapter 10: How Being Bad Can Make You Better Chapter 11: What Matters Most for Better Results Chapter 12: A Study in Deliberate Practice Part V. How to Deliberately Practice Chapter 13: The Process of Deliberate Practice Chapter 14: Designing a System of Deliberate Practice Chapter 15: Still Feel Self-Doubt? You're Probably on the Right Track Appendix A. Reliable and Clinically Significant Change Chart Appendix B. Calculating a Standard Deviation Appendix C. Taxonomy of Deliberate Practice (TDPA) Appendix D. Troubleshooting Tips References Index About the Authors
