Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development
At the Bleeding Edge of Development, Reaping Benefit for Our Clients.
Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published March 31, 2018 · Last modified February 5, 2019
“My characterization of a loser is someone who, after making a mistake, doesn’t introspect, doesn’t exploit it, feels embarrassed and defensive rather than enriched with a new piece of information, and tries to explain...
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 / For Professionals
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published March 19, 2018 · Last modified November 13, 2018
When in therapy, stay invested in, 1. Defining and Redefining a problem; 2. Coming to a consensus of what is the problem; 3. Resolving the problem.
Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment / For Professionals / Personalised Learning / Uncategorized
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published March 8, 2018 · Last modified June 20, 2019
Previously, we’ve talked about how to elicit feedback, and how to receive feedback. But the reality is, in clinical practice, you know how hard it is to elicit useful feedback. Asking a client what...
Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment / For Professionals
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published February 24, 2018 · Last modified September 21, 2019
Those of you who work in agencies and large organisations know this. You are asked to keep score on stuff that doesn’t matter to you or your clients. We call this KPIs (key performance...
Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published February 18, 2018 · Last modified October 13, 2021
“What does deliberate practice look like?” Thanks to Ivan for a great question! “Lots of people want to be the noun,” says artist and writer, Austin Kleon, “without doing the verb.” First, I want...
Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published February 11, 2018 · Last modified April 29, 2019
What is the outcome you will focus on when someone is dying? One of the most striking experiences I had was watching my grand auntie spent her last days in palliative care. She was...
Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Self-care
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published February 4, 2018 · Last modified November 13, 2018
The future of our work as a caring profession isn’t going to be subjugated or outsourced to artificial intelligence or driverless cars. Instead, our work is going to matter even more in the future...
Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published January 28, 2018 · Last modified November 13, 2018
“Those who control their passion and make it work for them have presence. Those who fail to control their passion look like excited, nervous teenagers. Those who have no passion at all have no...
Clinical Supervision / Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published January 14, 2018 · Last modified November 13, 2018
The aim of Frontiers of Professional Development (FPD) became clear to me only a few months back, even though FPD has been around for a few years now. At the heart of FPD is...
Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published January 5, 2018 · Last modified June 20, 2019
Singer Billy Joel said, “I am, as I’ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.” Being a good enough[1] therapist is compelling. Besides, there are real upsides of being...
Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment / For Professionals
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published December 30, 2017 · Last modified April 13, 2020
Don’t study the end result. Study the first step. ~ Josh Shipp One of the most challenging first steps in your pathway of professional development isn’t figuring out where you need to go, but...
Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published December 23, 2017 · Last modified November 13, 2018
I was consulting with an agency just last week, and one of the therapists said this to me, “I want to get better. This is important… If I don’t know this about my outcomes,...
Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published December 15, 2017 · Last modified May 3, 2019
Over the last few decades, much research has been published based on Carol Dweck’s idea of Mindset,as summarised in her book, Mindset: A New Psychology of Success, which mainly contrasts fixed mindset (“You have...
Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published December 8, 2017 · Last modified May 3, 2019
The biggest barrier towards your professional development is not on how to get from zero to 10, but from zero to one.[1] Many therapists struggle with systematically measuring their outcomes. Because of this, they...
Deliberate Practice / Personalised Learning / Uncategorized
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published December 1, 2017 · Last modified May 3, 2019
“We cannot be attached to outcome, says Zen Roshi Joan Halifax. Similarly, the Stoics point out that we do not have control of outcomes, but only the process.” Here are two scenarios to think through the...
Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published November 24, 2017 · Last modified May 3, 2019
Empathy has a hard time seeing a bigger picture. That is why fundraisers for charities do better when they tell a compelling story of an individual child with no access to clean water, rather...
Clinical Supervision / Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published November 19, 2017 · Last modified May 3, 2019
Try opening up your latest iPhone or Samsung mobile device. It’s near impossible. That’s because tech giants are making phones harder to repair. Apple insists that their iPhones are so complicated that third-party repairers...
Deliberate Practice / First Principles / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published November 10, 2017 · Last modified February 17, 2020
In a previous post, I’ve talked about the importance of Developing First Principles Before Methods. I’ve also talked about the ways you can develop first principles from challenging situations, therapeutic mistakes, and guidance from...
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 / First Principles / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published October 27, 2017 · Last modified December 18, 2018
As a field, we were obsessed with methods, approaches, tools, theoretical orientations, and schools of thought. Money poured into establishing treatment efficacy differences have not yield much fruit; therapists investment in time, effort and...
Clinical Supervision / Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published October 6, 2017 · Last modified November 13, 2018
In a previous post, I talked about the iterative cycle that we can take in our professional development (click HERE to revisit it, and download the free infographic). Here’s something that I’ve recently revisited that struck...
Clinical Supervision / Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published September 28, 2017 · Last modified November 13, 2018
In a previous post, I advocated the need to go beyond seeking the help from one individual. It is up to you to Build a Portfolio of Mentors. It doesn’t happen to you; it’s...
Deliberate Practice / For Professionals
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published September 15, 2017 · Last modified April 1, 2024
There is no doubt, psychotherapists value professional development. After all, we are in the business of human development. We prize growth and change not only in our clients, but in ourselves. But the truth...
Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published September 6, 2017 · Last modified November 13, 2018
This is not some Catholic self-flagellating, guilt inducing exercise. Rather, if we see with fresh eyes, every moment of difficulty that we face in a session with you client, presents a gift to you. These...
Clinical Supervision / Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published August 30, 2017 · Last modified November 13, 2018
I get the goose bumps when I hear the type of questions discerning therapists raise at my workshops. It strikes me every time not only because these are the questions I’ve been pondering about...
Clinical Supervision / Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published August 24, 2017 · Last modified November 13, 2018
For songwriters, the perennial pillar is song craft. It is not technical mastery. A songwriter knows that technical agility at an instrument is not going help him create a better song. It’s easier to...
Clinical Supervision / Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published August 22, 2017 · Last modified November 13, 2018
Seek out a portfolio of supervisors, mentors and coaches. The apprenticeship model of clinical supervision certainly has its merits. It takes us beyond what we read and what we derive from experience in clinical practice....
Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published August 15, 2017 · Last modified November 13, 2018
What is our real work? It’s easy to think that the role of a psychotherapist is to treat a person or help our clients change. Indeed, that may be the outcome we hope for....
Deliberate Practice / For Professionals
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published June 16, 2017 · Last modified November 13, 2018
What if one of the ways of transforming our practice in psychotherapy is to stop calling it talk therapy, but to see it as a performance ritual? What if we stop talking, and start...
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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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