“DP for This, DP for That.”

Further Readings

Here are three relevant readings:

Can “Deliberate Practice” Make Things Worse?

This short answer is yes. And there are two things to learn from this.

10 Things to Avoid in DP

Know the pitfalls, and you are on your way. 

Depths of Excellence and Ethics

The Craft, Care, and Creativity involved in the practice of psychotherapy.

Footnotes: 
​[1] Wampold, B. E., & Imel, Z. E. (2015). The great psychotherapy debate: The evidence for what makes psychotherapy work (2nd ed.)​. Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group; US.

[2] Webb, C. A., DeRubeis, R. J., & Barber, J. P. (2010). Therapist adherence/competence and treatment outcome: A meta-analytic review. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 78(2), 200–211. ​http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0018912 ​
[3] That said, one of the general efforts we need to make as a field is to reduce the amount of people who ​​fall through the cracks​​, the ​​unplanned dropouts​​ from treatment, and ​negative experiences​​. (More on this in the coming series).