Mastering the Inner Skills of Psychotherapy: A Deliberate Practice Manual

Do you ever find that you are less effective with clients who are provocative, angry, shut down, or emotionally labile? Would you like to be more effective helping clients with challenging problems, including trauma, addictions, and co-morbid conditions? Clients can arouse strong emotional reactions in therapists, often termed experiential avoidance or countertransference. Therapists must build their psychological capacity to stay self-aware, attuned, and clinically flexible while having strong reactions. This manual provides clear and practical deliberate practice exercises to help you master these inner skills so you can be a more effective therapist and enjoy your work more. It features a training plan that is based on the principles of deliberate practice, works with all major models of psychotherapy, and aids all levels of therapist development.

• Deliberate Practice for Psychotherapists
• The Cycle of Excellence: Using Deliberate Practice to Improve Supervision and Training
• Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity
• Freud and Beyond: A History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought
• How and Why Are Some Therapists Better Than Others?: Understanding Therapist Effects
• Socioculturally Attuned Family Therapy
• Family Therapy: Concepts and Methods (11th Edition)
• House of Cards
• Handbook of Infant Mental Health, Fourth Edition
• Attachment Theory in Practice: Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with Individuals, Couples, and Families