Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development
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I’m not comfortable with labels. As a musician, I disliked the idea of categorising artists I listen to into genres. As a therapist, I’m rarely imposed a label or a DSM-V. We don’t like...
Deliberate Practice / Personalised Learning / Self-care
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published July 30, 2021
A few years ago, I began to think about how we are caring for those who care. Maybe I was slow to fully realise this, but as I worked with others in the helping...
We don’t know how to rest. We think that resting is for the lazy, the inefficient and the ineffective. Yet when we think we are resting, our eyes are entranced by the endless scroll...
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published April 29, 2019 · Last modified June 26, 2020
Despite our sophisticated understanding of various psychological mechanisms that lead to stress, anxiety, and depression in our clients, we have a tendency to conflate the signal for the fire. The alarm bells tell us that something’s burning. Unless it’s a false alarm, the sirens aren’t the problem.
The experience of burnout is symptomatic of a compounded problem. What we need to gain clarity of is what cumulated to the emotional exhaustion.
Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Personalised Learning / Self-care
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published October 9, 2018 · Last modified November 16, 2018
By now, many of you would have heard about the 10,000-hour rule, made popular by Malcolm Gladwell’s book, The Outlier. This was largely based on K. Anders Ericsson and colleagues seminal work in 1993,...
Deliberate Practice / Self-care / Uncategorized
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published May 28, 2018 · Last modified April 29, 2019
In the previous post, I talked about therapists being pushed to the point of exhaustion. A few weeks ago I came across a recent study on burn out and job satisfaction affecting client outcomes.
Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Self-care
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published May 18, 2018 · Last modified November 13, 2018
The more I work with therapists, the more I feel like they are silently stretched to the point of exhaustion. They are not just burned out…give they a moment of nothingness and they just...
Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Self-care
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published April 15, 2018 · Last modified November 13, 2018
How do you prepare yourself to enter into the space of therapy? How do you make room not just for your client, but for you, to facilitate the entrance of emotional safety, the safety...
Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Self-care
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published July 18, 2015 · Last modified November 13, 2018
In the previous post, I talked about the pit-falls of engaging in the “Blame-Game” and getting mixed up with being busy and being productive. We continue the final count-down of “What-Not-To-Do” if we want...
Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Self-care
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published July 18, 2015 · Last modified November 13, 2018
Just do a google search, and you’d soon be inundated with many blogs and self-help books that specifically addresses the issue of raising productivity. Many of them provide useful to-do suggestions.
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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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