Deliberate Practice in Interpersonal Psychotherapy (Essentials of Deliberate Practice Series)

Deliberate practice exercises provide trainees and students an opportunity to build competence in essential interpersonal therapy skills while developing their own personal therapeutic style.
These exercises present role-playing scenarios in which two trainees act as a client and a clinician, switching back and forth under the guidance of a supervisor. The clinician improvises appropriate and authentic responses to client statements organized into three difficulty levels―beginner, intermediate, and advanced―that reflect common client questions and concerns.
Each of the first 10 exercises focuses on a single skill, including developing an interpersonal inventory of patients’ relationships, building social skills, and helping patients connect with their own thoughts and emotions and empathize with others. Two comprehensive exercises follow in which trainees integrate these essential skills into a single session.
Step-by-step instructions guide participants through the exercises, identify criteria for mastering each skill, and explain how to monitor and adjust difficulty. Guidelines to help trainers and trainees get the most out of training are also provided.

To demonstrate how deliberate practice can be fully integrated into a professional curriculum, this series features exercises developed and refined within the clinical training curriculum at the Sentio online/hybrid marriage and family therapy (MFT) therapist training program in California, which is where we started developing this series. These exercises, which have been tested at clinical training sites around the world, are used to enhance clinical outcomes within the first hybrid MFT program approved by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences to fully integrate deliberate practice into its entire curriculum. By integrating these models into its hybrid MFT program in California, Sentio University demonstrates that therapist training graduate programs can use deliberate practice to bridge the gap between theory and clinical mastery through repetitive, feedback-informed practice to support the development of modern, outcome-focused clinicians.

From the Publisher

Key Features

Exercises provide trainees and students an opportunity to build competence in essential interpersonal therapy skills while developing their own personal therapeutic style.Step-by-step instructions guide participants through the exercises, identify criteria for mastering each skill, and explain how to monitor and adjust difficulty.Guidelines to help trainers and trainees get the most out of training are also provided.

Praise For Deliberate Practice in Interpersonal Psychotherapy

This book provides a cutting-edge approach to training a broad spectrum of providers in interpersonal psychotherapy. This is an important contribution to psychotherapy training that will be of interest to clinicians committed to providing quality, personalized, and “deliberate” clinical care. The clinical significance of this work is extraordinary.

— Gregory G. Kolden, PhD, University of Wisconsin Department of Psychiatry, Madison, WI, United States

I wish Deliberate Practice in Interpersonal Psychotherapy had been available when I was training in interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) many years ago. The book offers exercises for the beginning–and also the experienced–psychotherapist that provide a wealth of material to improve the practice of IPT, a therapy that looks easy from the outside but is difficult to practice in the real world. This book will help greatly in getting therapists to practice IPT in an effective way.

— Marc B. J. Blom, MD, PhD, Former President, Dutch Society for Interpersonal Psychotherapy; Former Executive Board Member, Parnassia Group; and Department of Mood Disorders, PsyQ, The Hague, The Netherlands

This book provides detailed exercises with clear instructions to facilitate learning interpersonal psychotherapy for trainees at any level. Essential resources for supervisors about how and why to use each exercise are included. This is a must-have tool for interpersonal psychotherapy supervisors and learners alike.

— Shannon N. Lenze, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States

Publisher ‏ : ‎ American Psychological Association
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 7, 2025
Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 236 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1433840464
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1433840463
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.34 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.25 x 0.75 x 10.75 inches
Part of series ‏ : ‎ Essentials of Deliberate Practice
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