Better Results Using Deliberate Practice to Improve Therapeutic Effectiveness

This book is a step-by-step guide to using deliberate practice as an individualized professional development plan for psychotherapists to improve the quality of their service using client outcome data.

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.

Scott D. Miller, PhD, is the founder of the International Center for Clinical Excellence—a consortium of clinicians, researchers, and educators dedicated to promoting excellence in behavioral health services. He conducts workshops and training, helping hundreds of organizations worldwide to achieve superior results. He writes and edits books and professional articles on the curative factors of psychotherapy and the development of expert performance. Scott’s work on routine outcome management led to the development of Feedback Informed Treatment, now listed on SAMHSA’s National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practice. He lives in Chicago, Illinois. Visit scottdmiller.com and follow @TheICCE. 

Mark A. Hubble, PhD, is a founding member and senior advisor at the International Center for Clinical Excellence. He is the co-author and co-editor of many professional papers and several books—including the award winning first edition of The Heart and Soul of Change: What Works in Therapy. He also served on the editorial review board for the Journal of Systemic Therapies. His most recent work has focused on expert performance, deliberate practice, and the history and role of “magick” in psychotherapy. Mark is also a professional bass player. He lives in Danbury, Connecticut.

Daryl Chow, PhD, is a senior associate of the International Center for Clinical Excellence. He conducts research and workshops on the development of expertise and highly effective psychotherapists, and ways practitioners can accelerate learning. He is the co-author of many articles and co-editor and contributing author of The Write to Recovery: Personal Stories & Lessons about Recovery from Mental Health Concerns. Currently, Daryl maintains a private practice and continues to serve as a senior psychologist at the Institute of Mental Health, Singapore. He lives in Perth, Western Australia. Visit darylchow.com.
 

Foreword by K. Anders Ericsson
Preface: Better Results Are Within Reach
Acknowledgments
I. The State of Our Art
1. What Therapists Will Say, Won't Say, and Can't Say
2. What Do We Really Know About Psychotherapy After All?
II. Expertise and Expert Performance: The Evidence Base
3. Learning From the Experts on Expertise
4. What Is (and Is Not) Deliberate Practice?
III. Getting Started: What to Do First to Achieve Better Results
5. Baseline Matters
6. How to Find Your Baseline
7. Making Sense of Your Baseline
IV. Moving Forward: Identifying What to Deliberately Practice
8. Mining Your Data for Better Results
9. How Average Leads to Better Results
10. How Being Bad Can Make You Better
11. What Matters Most for Better Results
12. A Study in Deliberate Practice
V. How to Deliberately Practice
13."Yeah, But What Am I Supposed to Do?"
14. Designing a System of Deliberate Practice
15. Epilogue
Appendix A: Reliable and Clinically Significant Change Chart for the Outcome Rating Scale
Appendix B: Calculating a Standard Deviation
Appendix C: Taxonomy of Deliberate Practice Activities in Psychotherapy--Supervisor/Coach Version (Version 5.1)
Appendix D: Taxonomy of Deliberate Practice Activities in Psychotherapy--Therapist Version
Appendix E: Troubleshooting Tips
References
Index
About the Authors