Frontiers Newsletter Nov'17: Develop First Principles, Not Methods
Thank You
Hello from Melbourne! Spent last evening at the Australian Psychological Society (APS) Counselling College AGM. Honestly, it's the first AGM I've attended in more than a decade! Really heartened by people who are devoted to help the profession raise the bar and help people in need.
Tomorrow's a day's workshop for folks who have been monitoring outcomes and wanna take their work further... Really Looking forward to meeting these committed folks!
I would like to wish my friends and colleagues who celebrate Thanksgiving (we all should, actually) a Happy Thanksgiving Day to you and your family. Also, thank you all for being part of this community. I really appreciate the feedback I've been getting, right down from typos (yes, I'm so prone to them even after checking that I'm embarrassed!), to suggestions, and inspiring comments.
Blessings,
Daryl
As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essayist and Poet
WATCH:
I highly recommend you watch this PBS Frontline documentary, A Class Divided. I was floored. It's troubling and inspiring. One teacher's work shows how much a simple label can affect a person's behavior and performance.
Do watch it.
FROM MY DESK:
(Will probably not be at this desk for long now, as I'm stopping my work as a clinical manager for the outreach team at SPOT/Stream from Dec onwards. Aside from clinical practice, I'd be working full-time to help clinicians now. I'm working towards aa "reverse-scale" approach in running the business.)
Over the last several months, I've been working towards articulating what I've been thinking about "principles". In the last month, I've blogged about this topic. I'm not sure if I'm getting everything right, so I'd love to hear from you about your thoughts around it.
1. Develop First Principles Before the Methods
2. Three Ways to Develop First Principles in Your Clinical Practice
3. The 5-Step Process for Deep and Accelerated Learning In Therapy
and a related one:
4. Repairable Models: It's Time We Fix This
NEW RELEASE
These books are finally out in print and ebook downloads!
Here's the two chapters we've got in there:
Chow, D. (2017). The practice and the practical: Pushing your clinical effectiveness to the next level. In D. Prescott, C. Maeschalck, & S. D. Miller (Eds.), Reaching for Excellence: Feedback-Informed Treatment in Practice: APA.
Miller, S. D., Hubble, M., & Chow, D. (2017). Professional development: An Oxymoron? In T. Rousmaniere, R. K. Goodyear, S. D. Miller, & B. Wampold (Eds.), The Cycle of Excellence: Using Deliberate Practice in Supervision, Training, and Independent Practice Wiley Press.
SPECIAL NOTE: IF YOU HAVE BOUGHT EITHER OF THESE BOOKS, drop me an email.
I'd send you a copy of the Taxonomy of Deliberate Practice Activities (TDPA, Chow & Miller, 2015) that we refer to in our chapters.
If you haven't yet seen the book by my friend and colleague Tony Rousmaniere (also a co-editor of one of the books above), called Deliberate Practice for Psychotherapist, you must check it out. He takes you on his personal journey in his pursuit of get better .
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Understanding the Professional
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Blessings,
Daryl Chow, MA. Ph.D. (Psych)
Senior Associate & Trainer, International Center for Clinical Excellence (ICCE);
Endorsed Counselling Psychologist & Board Approved Supervisor (Aus),
Henry Street Centre, Fremantle, W Australia.
Senior Psychologist (on locum),
Institute of Mental Health, Singapore.
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