The Path to Competence -- The Path to Expertise -- The Experiment, Phase 1 : Deliberate Practice -- Expertise in Medicine : Focus on Clinical Outcomes -- Expertise in Performing Arts : Focus on Skills -- Expertise in Difficult Situations : Experience Refined by Feedback -- Expertise in Spiritual Practices : Addressing Experiential Avoidance -- The Principles of Practice -- Deliberate Practice Exercises for Basic Skills -- Deliberate Practice Exercises for Specific Models -- The Inner Game: Self-Regulation, Grit, and Harmonious Passion -- Advice for Supervisees : Finding Your Path to Expertise -- Advice for Supervisors : Integrating Deliberate Practice into Supervision -- Advice for Mid- and Later Career : Lifelong Learning -- The Research on Deliberate Practice -- Clarifying Deliberate Practice from Traditional Training -- Challenges to Deliberate Practice -- The Sentio Supervision Model.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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