This book explores how psychotherapists can use deliberate practice to improve their clinical effectiveness.

By sourcing through decades of research on how experts in diverse fields achieve skill mastery, this book shows it is possible for any therapist to dramatically improve their clinical skills. To improve, therapists must focus on clinical challenges and reconsider century-old methods of clinical training from the ground up. This second edition traces recent developments in research and presents a step-by-step program to engage readers in deliberate practice to improve clinical effectiveness across the therapists' entire career span, from beginning training for graduate students, to continuing education for licensed and advanced clinicians.

Enriched with insightful clinical experiences and anecdotes, Deliberate Practice for Psychotherapists is an important read for graduate students, trainees, and practicing psychotherapists.

About the Author

Tony Rousmaniere, PsyD is Executive Director of Sentio Counseling, Program Director of the Sentio MFT Program, and president of the Psychotherapy Division of the American Psychological Association.

Reviews

'Provides incredibly important information for trainees, practitioners, and supervisors across all levels of experience.'

Mark J. Hilsenroth, PhD, professor, Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology and past editor of the journal Psychotherapy.

'...Candid, bold, challenging, and constantly tied to clinical reality, this engrossing and innovative book offers creative insights and valuable tools to help clinicians become more effective, irrespective of their theoretical orientation and level of experience.'
Louis Castonguay, PhD, Penn State University; former president, Society for Psychotherapy Research.

'In Deliberate Practice for Psychotherapists: A Guide to Improving Clinical Effectiveness, ...Rousmaniere provides a remarkably innovative and valuable contribution to the field of psychotherapy that draws upon observations and methods about the mastery of skills sets from multiple different professions. As such, I believe this book provides incredibly important information for trainees, practitioners, and supervisors across all levels of experience.'

Mark J. Hilsenroth, PhD, Adelphi University.

'Some psychotherapists consistently realize better client outcomes than their peers and the data show that they achieve this by having made a long-term commitment to engaging in deliberate practice (DP). But many psychotherapists remain unsure of just what DP is or how they might incorporate it in their own work. Rousmaniere answers these questions in a highly effective and engaging way. He takes the reader along on his own quest to become the best therapist he can and as he does, anchors his observations solidly in the research literature. The result is an essential guide for therapists for using DP to increase their expertise.'

Rodney Goodyear, professor, University of Redlands; emeritus professor of education (counseling psychology), University of Southern California.

Book Information
ISBN 9781032491042
Author Tony Rousmaniere
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd