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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 / 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...
Deliberate Practice / Personalised Learning / Reimagining Education in Psychotherapy (REP)
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published July 21, 2020 · Last modified July 24, 2020
Recently, someone said something to me that cast doubt on my ability as a therapist. This person said, “It’s not that hard to help someone feel understood. With good eye contact, attentive listening sprinkled...
First Principles / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published January 31, 2020 · Last modified June 17, 2022
A myth is the image we have of the world and our relationship with it, and the story we tell ourselves. A myth is not the opposite of fact. All of us carry myths—implicit...
Deliberate Practice / First Sessions / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published September 28, 2019 · Last modified June 26, 2020
Ben and Carrie got me on their show for one of their episodes. (Listen to Episode 11, regarding the problem with an intake model. More about this in the book, The First Kiss). What they are doing is so underrated. I asked them in passing, “Wouldn’t it be super interesting to hear what you both learned after doing the first 20 episodes, so that we can learn too?”
I was surprised that they took up the invitation.
This is a guest post by Ben Fineman and Caroline Wiita.
Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published June 11, 2019 · Last modified August 22, 2022
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...
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published November 2, 2018 · Last modified September 1, 2023
In our careers as psychotherapists, there seems to be a particular trajectory that we strive to achieve. That is, to become specialised in a particular model of therapy. I mean, who’s to blame anyway?...
Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published December 30, 2016 · Last modified June 20, 2019
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.
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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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