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How to get training in deliberate practice
Ongoing training
- provides an online forum for discussions, resources and networking with practitioners, health care managers, educators and researchers who want to foster excellence in behavioral health services
DIY training
Psychology practitioners can create their own deliberate practice routines. In his new book, "Deliberate Practice for Psychotherapists: A Guide to Improving Clinical Effectiveness," Rousmaniere recommends that practitioners:
- Continuously assess your performance via client-outcome reports
- Observe these cases via videotape
- Seek feedback from an expert.
- Rehearse specific skills that arise from your data.
- If you lose most of your highly anxious clients after a few sessions, for instance, observe on video what might be happening. You may see, for example, that you are unwittingly projecting discomfort with these clients. To work on this issue, you could establish a regular practice of deliberately relaxing your body and facial muscles with this discomfort in mind, so that when you are in session, you respond more openly and calmly.
- Set incremental learning goals just beyond your ability.
- Work on general skills, too, like improving your emotional attunement with clients
- watch videos of your therapy interactions with the sound turned off. If your impression of a client is different from your impression with the sound turned on, consider what the person might be trying to express nonverbally.
- Schedule a set time for practice in a quiet place.
- Start with 20 minutes three times a week and build up from there.
- Repeat these steps regularly and often throughout your career.
Deliberate Practice
DELIBERATE PRACTICE
how do we need to practice in order to become expert?
- In therapy, ideally you find a good supervisor who observes videotapes of your work with a patient every week over the course of years.