Date: 18th March 2024 (full day)
Where: London (IRL)
Hosts: Michael Eisen, Vidar Husby and Luca Rossi
Cost: €150
In this day-long workshop, you will learn how you can improve as a therapist - and why your current efforts aren’t working. We will review what the research really says about psychotherapy and teach you effective techniques for developing your skills. And we will spend plenty of time practising those techniques and developing those skills.
An Introduction to Deliberate Practice for Psychotherapists
Learning objectives:
- Learn the principles of effective skill-building with Deliberate Practice (DP)
- Try DP for yourself and start to master its key components
- Learn where to find free resources for continued practice
- Learn how to incorporate DP into supervision
Workshop hosts:
Vidar M. Husby (Norway) and Luca Rossi (Italy), are both Clinical Psychologists, authors, supervisors, and Certified DP trainers from the International Deliberate Practice Society. Michael Eisen (UK) is a Clinical Psychologist, clinical tutor and author.
Workshop sponsor:
The International Deliberate Practice Society
Registration:
London, Great Britain: March 18, 2024
Focus:
The aim of this seminar is to give you a practical introduction to DP. Through carefully selected exercises in a well-tested format, we will show you how to implement DP and build it into a sustainable routine. We will show you where to find free DP resources to support your practice.
We will use didactic teaching, video demonstrations, live demonstrations, and experiential exercises to:
(1) Introduce the principles of DP;
(2) Set out the practical applications of DP;
(3) Teach you DP exercises which can be used within any therapy model. You will learn how to derive small, concrete, incremental learning goals from the complex constructs of psychological theory; and
(4) Show how DP can be integrated into supervision, to improve trainees’ skills and outcomes.
Why?
The field of psychotherapy traditionally emphasizes clinical supervision, clinical experience, literature, and study as tools for professional development. But these are highly theoretical and passive learning methods, and the science of learning suggests that they are unlikely to influence clinicians’ procedural skills (Vaz & Rousmaniere, 2021). This is reflected in their poor correlation with treatment outcomes. To improve outcomes, we need to convert conceptual knowledge to actual therapist behavior, as this is what clients encounter in the therapy room. With DP, we translate conceptual understanding into clinical skills, using training that is active, procedural, and tailored. DP is currently the most empirically supported method for skill-building (Ericsson et al., 2018, 1993).
Prominent psychotherapy researchers and authors agree on the promise of DP (Anderson & Perlman, 2020; Miller, Hubble & Chow, 2020; Norcross & Karpiak, 2017; Rousmaniere et al., 2017; Wampold et al., 2019; 2021), and studies suggest that therapists who engage in DP achieve better outcomes and skills acquisition (Larsson et al, 2023; DiBartalomeo et al, 2021; Westra et al, 2020; Perlman et al., 2020; Anderson, Perlman McCarrick & McClintock, 2019, Goldberg et al., 2016). DP is the subject of a recent book series from the American Psychological Association, which applies DP principles both to general therapy skills and to models such as schema therapy, cognitive behavior therapy, and psychodynamic therapy.
The presenters:
Dr Michael Eisen is a Clinical Psychologist and mindfulness trainer in the UK. Alongside his therapy practice, he is an Associate Clinical Tutor on the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at UCL. He is an experienced practitioner and teacher of mindfulness and has trained to teach Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. He has written two self-help books, which apply Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to the treatment of anxiety and depression.
Vidar Husby is a specialist in clinical psychology, and his main interests and skills are psychotherapy and therapist training. He trains therapists who want to learn to develop their skills through DP. He also trains supervisors who want to teach skill-building to their psychotherapy trainees. Playing the bass and working as a photographer taught him the value of practice. Vidar lives and works in Norway, and offers teaching, workshops and supervision in many countries. He has presented his clinical and therapist training work at several international conferences, including Berlin (2015), Boston (2019) and Venice, (2022).
Luca Rossi is a clinical psychologist, ISTDP psychotherapist, and IEDTA certified teacher and supervisor. He provides therapy, teaching, and supervision in Italy and internationally. Since 2014 he has trained therapists in ISTDP in IEDTA certified core trainings in Italy and he has presented his clinical work at the IEDTA conference in Amsterdam (2016), Boston (2019), and Venice (2022). Luca provides deliberate practice supervision and teaching in several countries.