The Music of Psychotherapy: Learning in a Wicked Environment
I often get a bewildered look when I tell people that the first place I visited in US was Kansas City. It was also the first time I met K. Anders Ericsson. In 2010,...
Category: Feedback Informed Treatment
To Specialise or Not to Specialise?
A therapist I was coaching asked me an excellent question. “Should I develop myself to become a specialist in a certain area, with a certain type of diagnostic category and/or population, or should I...
Here’s the Payoff
It all begins with an investment of faith. Organisations, supervisees, and practitioners whom I consult with know that, for the most part, they wouldn’t see immediate results. It’s a calculated gamble. I recently began...
Value What We Measure, or Measure What We Value?
Do we value what we measure, or do we measure what we value? This is not a play on words. It turns out that we often end up valuing what is easy to measure...
To Get Useful Feedback, Seek Contrast: Compare Within the Person’s Experience, Not Between Persons.
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...
Vanity Metrics: Do We Value What We Measure, or Measure What We Value?
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...
Being Average is Compelling
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...
Figure Out Where You Are Before Where You Need to Go
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...
The Biggest Stumbling Block Towards Individualised Professional Development
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...
Signs That Therapists are Barking Up the Wrong Tree in Our Professional Development
I’m going to re-look at some deeply held truths we were taught to believe about professional development in the field of psychotherapy. Actually, if these truths are closely examined, they are perpetuated lies.
How Do You Get Better At Eliciting Feedback?
In the previous post, we addressed the issue of how to receive feedback. In this post, we take a step back and address how we can elicit feedback.
How Do You Get Better at Receiving Feedback?
“How was your meal sir?” “Fine, thanks.” I lied. Five minutes into the meal, the waitress comes back to me. She’s wondering why I haven’t touched my pasta one bit since she last enquired.
The Tension of Opposites: Clinical Intuition vs. Clinical Data (Part 2 of 2, The Rate & Predict Exercise)
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....
The Tension of Opposites: Clinical Intuition vs. Clinical Data (part 1 of 2)
There are those who embrace routine outcome monitoring (ROM), and those who shy away from it like the plague. On one side of the fence, skeptical practitioners point their crucifix against the use of...
Know Your Baseline
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