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Deliberate Practice / For Professionals
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published April 22, 2014 · Last modified November 13, 2018
Here’s How:
At the end of every typical work week, look at your work calendar to recall all of the clients that you’ve met. Pick one of the cases that strike you the most in that week. Write down one thing that you want to remember about your experience.
Since 2013, I’ve been capturing weekly short notes on what I’ve learned as a psychotherapist. I wished I’ve started earlier in career. In one of my first few posts on Frontiers, I talked about...
First Principles / First Sessions / Personalised Learning / Self-care
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published February 14, 2019 · Last modified January 12, 2024
“What is essential is invisible to the eye.” ~Fred Rogers In the last blog post, I wrote about the personal side of I’ve learned from the peaks and troughs of 2018. Today, I’d...
Clinical Supervision / Deliberate Practice / First Principles / First Sessions / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published November 6, 2017 · Last modified June 26, 2020
Try this little thought experiment: Take a piece of paper, and in the next 2-3mins, in no more than 2-3 paragraphs, write down your philosophy of what guides you in therapy. Most of us...
Deliberate Practice / Personalised Learning / Podcast
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published June 3, 2021 · Last modified July 2, 2024
Welcome to Episode #9 of the Frontiers Podcast! In this episode, we have a special video version that comes with some cool visuals from the app that I was talking about. I believe one...
Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published March 26, 2018 · Last modified February 10, 2020
With each plane crash, future flights become safer. With each therapy failure, we feel less safe with ourselves. We are cast into a sea of self-doubt. Our confidences plummet; our competence is called into...
Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment / For Professionals / Self-care
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published March 30, 2016 · Last modified June 20, 2019
In the previous post, I advocated the marriage of our clinical intuition and the use of outcome informed data. Do not let me convince you. Let your experience convince. Put it to the test....
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Daryl Chow, MA, Ph.D. (Psych) is a practicing psychologist and trainer. He is a senior associate of the International Center for Clinical Excellence (ICCE). He devotes his time to workshops, consultations, and researches on the development of expertise and highly effective psychotherapists, helping practitioners to accelerate learning and improve client outcomes.
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