What is it about?
Results show that therapists who participated in this study significantly improved their ability to handle difficult conversations with clients. The key implication of this study is that deliberate practice may be a valuable tool for improving the quality of therapy. The study provides preliminary evidence that deliberate practice can help therapists to develop the skills they need to effectively manage challenging clinical encounters. This could lead to better outcomes for clients. This study also highlights some of the challenges of implementing deliberate practice in psychotherapy training. For example, the study found that the dropout rate was higher in the deliberate practice group than in the control group. This suggests that therapists may need support in order to successfully engage in deliberate practice.
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Why is it important?
This is important because the traditional ways of training therapists, like workshops and self-reflection, haven't been shown to be very effective in improving how well therapists work with clients.
Perspectives
It is often difficult to improve at rare but common challenges in psychotherapy. This programme provides a bona fide deliberate practice framework for therapist to target their learnings. In addition, therapists are not trained on what specifically to say, but how to think about the situation based on first principles. In addition, this protocol allows success refinement to improve at their original response and in their own voice.
Daryl Chow
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This page is a summary of: Improving responses to challenging scenarios in therapy: A randomized controlled trial of a deliberate practice training program., Training and Education in Professional Psychology, November 2024, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/tep0000493.
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