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Deliberate Practice is a structured, evidence-based approach to building clinical skill, grounded in the science of expert performance. Research shows it improves client outcomes by enhancing clinical expertise, and predicts therapeutic effectiveness and skill development over time. These skills are particularly relevant for clinicians working with people who have foster care experience, as these clients often present with complex relational needs that call for advanced attunement, repair, and regulation capacities. This training will provide an overview of the history and core components of Deliberate Practice. Through video exemplars and experiential exercises, participants will be guided in developing their own personalized Deliberate Practice routine.

This course is eligible for 2.5 continuing education credits.

This course is suitable for Psychologists, LMHCs, MFTs, Social Workers, LPCs, and Counselors.

Introductory

10:00 PM-10:15 PM – Introduction/Overview
10:15 PM-10:30 PM – Problems in the Acquisition of Clinical Expertise
10:30 PM-10:45 PM – Emergence of the Common Factors and the “High-Performing Therapist”
10:45 PM-11:00 PM – “Next Generation” Common Factors: Facilitative Interpersonal Skills
11:00 PM-11:15 PM – Defining Deliberate Practice
11:15-11:45 PM – Deliberate Practice in Action
11:45 PM-12:00 PM – Problems with “Supervision As Usual”
12:00 PM-12:20 PM – Deliberate Practice Supervision
12:20 PM-12:30 PM – Conclusion/Q&A

At the end of the workshop, the participant will be able to:

1. Describe two key principles of Deliberate Practice as they apply to skill development in psychotherapy.
   
2. List at least two examples of a 'clinical challenge' and describe how each one contributes to skill development in Deliberate Practice training."
   
3. List one limitation of traditional supervision in psychotherapy, in contrast to Deliberate Practice supervision.