Can ChatGPT Replace Psychotherapy?
Before ChatGPT took the world by storm a few months ago in Nov 2022, there was ELIZA. Invented by a professor in MIT named Joseph Weizenbaum, Eliza was a simple computer program, a chatbot...
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by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published February 10, 2023 · Last modified April 21, 2024
Before ChatGPT took the world by storm a few months ago in Nov 2022, there was ELIZA. Invented by a professor in MIT named Joseph Weizenbaum, Eliza was a simple computer program, a chatbot...
Clinical Supervision / Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published December 14, 2022 · Last modified April 21, 2024
One of the key areas related to our developmental efforts is in the realm of clinical supervision. Clinical supervision is the signature pedagogy of choice in psychotherapy. I’ve benefited a great deal from the...
Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment / Personalised Learning / Podcast
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published October 5, 2022 · Last modified July 2, 2024
In this week’s Therapy Tip of the Week #7 (TTW), we talk about how to use outcome monitoring tools, not as an assessment tool, but as a conversational tool. If you have missed the...
Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment / Personalised Learning / Structuring Sessions
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published October 5, 2022 · Last modified November 24, 2023
The Rule of Three in Performing Arts, Photography and Music. One of the primary ways to think about how you structure your therapy hour is to think in three parts. In the performing arts,...
Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published September 30, 2022
Not all feedback is created equal. Who specifically do you trust to give you feedback about your development? It’s important to distinguish between performance feedback and learning feedback. Feedback from clients are performance feedback, used to specifically tune...
Feedback Informed Treatment / Personalised Learning / Podcast
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published September 23, 2022 · Last modified July 2, 2024
In Therapy Tip of the Week #6, we continue on the topic of improving working alliance. Here’s my recommendation, when seeking for feedback, avoid talking about… you! If you have missed the previous videos...
Feedback Informed Treatment / Personalised Learning / Podcast
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published September 9, 2022 · Last modified July 2, 2024
Dissonance can be a powerful ingredient for learning. How do we challenge our intuition in order to listen to our client’s unspokens in order to foster a deeper connection with them? In this video,...
Feedback Informed Treatment / Personalised Learning / Podcast
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published September 2, 2022 · Last modified July 2, 2024
In this week’s therapy tip of the week, we are going to talk about the subject that you as a psychotherapist would be more than familiar with–except that it’s not what you expect. ...
Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published June 3, 2022
Most of the time, we are solving for specifics. In the natural sciences, however, nature does not solve for specifics, but it solves for patterns. Paraphrasing Agriculturist Wendell Berry (1981), Janine Benus described the process...
Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment / First Principles
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published April 1, 2022 · Last modified April 7, 2022
Renowned improv teacher, Keith Johnstone says the following: Instead of telling actors that they must be good listeners (which is confusing), we should say, ‘Be altered by what’s said.’ Good theatre is like tennis in...
Clinical Supervision / Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published January 30, 2022
In this video, I will walk you through on a practical level, how to use a framework of clinical supervision to translate to actual improvement in outcome. We will take a step-by-step approach to...
Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment / Podcast
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published October 7, 2021 · Last modified October 8, 2021
In this exclusive episode #10 on Frontiers Radio, we have a special guest, Dr. Scott Miller. We talked about several luminary figures who shaped and influenced his life, pivotal turning points, the writing process...
Feedback Informed Treatment / Podcast / Research
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published May 21, 2021 · Last modified July 2, 2024
In the 1950s, A fairly unusual be-spectacled and slender Lieutenant Gilbert Daniels was tasked to solve one of the biggest problems in the US Air Force: Plane crashes. What he unravelled in the process...
Short answer: To be adaptive. Long answer: Watch this video p/s: This video is taken from one of the modules in our Deep Learner course. Deep Learner a field guide for psychotherapist, teaching you...
Feedback Informed Treatment / Frontiers Friday Series
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published April 17, 2021 · Last modified May 28, 2024
Note: This is a compilation of Frontier Friday, a weekly Substack published, originally released on 17 Apr. 2021 PART I Reflection: Do you use measures in therapy? If so, do you use them as...
Clinical Supervision / Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published April 17, 2021
Perhaps there is no bigger feat than taking on Mount Everest. The early pioneers like Sir Edmund Hilary have been recognised–and knighted–for conquering the highest peak in the world. [1] Peak performance is greatly...
Feedback Informed Treatment / First Principles / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published November 23, 2020 · Last modified May 11, 2021
In the 1950s, A fairly unusual be-spectacled and slender Lieutenant Gilbert Daniels was tasked to solve one of the biggest problems in the US Air Force. A botanical loving man, not the kind of...
Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published October 27, 2020
When I look back over the last decade, there is one common theme: I have a huge tendency to overestimate what I can do in the short-term, and underestimate what I can achieve in...
Feedback Informed Treatment / First Sessions / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published October 8, 2020 · Last modified October 2, 2020
This originally appeared in the book, The First Kiss: Undoing the Intake Model and Igniting First Sessions in Psychotherapy, Chapter 19. “What is Your View of the Problem?” “Curiosity never killed the cat.” ~...
Feedback Informed Treatment / Research
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published September 11, 2020 · Last modified August 11, 2023
For all this talk about the importance of measuring outcomes, we must resist the other side, the tyranny of metrics that can undermine the dignity of our human experience. A lack of appreciation and...
No manufacturing company in the US and UK was initially willing to license his vacuum cleaner. James Dyson was laughed at for designing a transparent vacuum cleaner that showed all the filth it sucked...
Feedback Informed Treatment / Personalised Learning / Podcast / Reimagining Education in Psychotherapy (REP) / Research
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published August 3, 2020
The 9 Forces That Will Shape The Field of Psychotherapy… and Why This Matters to You. The actual path of a raindrop as it goes down the valley is unpredictable, but the general direction...
Clinical Supervision / Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published July 30, 2020
Here’s a suggestion: Whenever you conduct a supervision session, leave one empty chair in the room. [1] Why? This is to remind both parties, that we are talking about someone else who is not...
Clinical Supervision / Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published July 29, 2020
“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” ~ Pablo Picasso Some of the best clinical supervisors I know are not just good problem solvers, but they are highly perceptive problem finders. Why...
Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment / First Sessions / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published June 25, 2020 · Last modified June 28, 2020
Date: 23rd June 2020. I started writing the first draft of this list of problems to solve in April 2019. There were like 15-17 problems at first… and that was more than a year...
Clinical Supervision / Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment / First Sessions / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published January 14, 2020 · Last modified June 26, 2020
Note: The original version of this article first appeared in Psychotherapy.net, June 2019. Today we are going to use the concept of Circle of Development (COD) to elaborate on how clinical supervisors can help...
Clinical Supervision / Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment / First Principles / Personalised Learning / Reimagining Education in Psychotherapy (REP)
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published December 20, 2019 · Last modified November 8, 2024
The Reimagining Education in Psychotherapy (REP) Series, Part 5. In the previous article (REP part 4), I made the case to be playful and tolerance for mediocrity as part of the learning journey. To...
Clinical Supervision / Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment / First Principles / Reimagining Education in Psychotherapy (REP)
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published October 30, 2019 · Last modified November 6, 2019
Turns out that there there is a key difference between teaching kids how to play with legos, versus telling them what to build.
Feedback Informed Treatment / Personalised Learning / Reimagining Education in Psychotherapy (REP)
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published October 22, 2019 · Last modified October 23, 2019
The Reimagine Education in Psychotherapy (REP) Series, Part 3. I cannot fail. I failed way too many times in my primary, secondary, and even in tertiary education. It was challenging to not be succeeding...
Clinical Supervision / Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment / First Principles / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published September 21, 2019
We need to trust the process of therapy, but without clarity on the effect of therapy, you are likely to get lost in the weeds—lost in our theoretical explanations and pet solutions—especially when the client isn’t experiencing any real gain.
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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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