Frontiers Newsletter Jun'18

Big Hello folks, 

Can you believe it? We are near the end of June. (To break old, patterns, I decided to drive up to a monument hill and write this newsletter in the car).

Two Announcements: 
1. First Batch Graduation: Today marks the end of the 1st batch of professional therapists/supervisors-learners in the Reigniting Clinical Supervision Course! 6 months worth of drip by drip content, close to 40 modules deep! Big congrats to all who have completed (and also to those who are sticking it through to completion at the moment—the course allows for "learn at your own pace" approach).
We are currently in the 3rd batch of students. I'm holding off any further enrolment, as we making minor tweaks to improve the learning experience. If you are interested to be on the waitlist, pls email me at info@darylchow.com 


2. The First Kiss Book: Available for Pre-Order!

This is going to hit the press in a month or so. It's not a book about first date. It's about undoing the way we conduct our first sessions in therapy.

The First Kiss: Undoing the Intake Model and Igniting the First Sessions in Psychotherapy. Ebook version is available of pre-order now! Release Date: 4th of July 2018.
Paperback will also be released.



Here's what some of our thought leaders in the field have to say about the book:

“Daryl Chow has finally written The Book I’ve wanted every therapist to read for years...He welcomes us into his world as a creative and erudite scholar-practitioner...This book should become dog-eared, papered with post-its, and full of multi-colored highlighting.”    

— Julie Tilsen, Ph.D., 

author of Therapeutic Conversations with Queer Youth: Transcending Homonormativity and Constructing Preferred Identities and Narrative Approaches to Youth Work: Conversational Skills for a Critical Practice
 

“With elegant simplicity and intelligence, practitioner, trainer and researcher Daryl Chow guides the field of mental health in the right direction. This book confronts the hard facts of what the research evidence tells us about what works in psychotherapy, and gives us a clear and concise description on how to become better practitioners. Follow his lead and you will achieve better results with higher quality in less time.”

— Birgit Villa, Psychologist, 

author of "Videre – Hvordan psykiske helsetjenester kan bli bedre" (“Further – How Mental Health Services Can Be Better”) and Director of a Mental Health Service, Norway.

" Throw out the traditional assessment of psychopathology and engage the client with the fervor that is necessary to form an alliance that provides the scaffolding for therapy to work. From the very first minute, focus on the client and their suffering and don’t hide behind the sterile clinical approach of traditional history taking and clinical diagnoses.

This book walks the talk—you will be engaged from the very first moment of picking up the book!”

— Bruce E. Wampold, Ph.D., 

Author of the Great Psychotherapy Debate.

“...Clearly organized in sequential steps, Daryl Chow shows us how to get past the sacred but ineffective “intake session” and instead discover how to truly connect with our clients. The text is research-based as well as grounded in his honest and courageous self-disclosure. This book is highly recommended for all therapists, from trainees to experienced clinicians who want to improve their effectiveness.” 

— Tony Rousmaniere, PsyD, 

Author of Deliberate Practice for Psychotherapists.

“Keep something beautiful in your mind” 

~ Pascal

FROM MY DESK:

June'18 blog posts:
 

(This is an excerpt from the introductory section of the book)
 

RECOMMENDATIONS  

Tools and resources that you can use.

Every month, I'd provide you five tools/resources that I've used and found it to be helpful in my learning process, productivity, or just plain useful. 

This month, I'd focus on recent articles I've read that is thought-provoking.

1. Why Gen Y Yuppies are Unhappy: I love Tim Urban blogs. This is one of his classic blog post.
Forewarning to all Gen Y reading this!

2. Myths on the Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: The British Psychological Society did a brilliant summary of this. Forget about the hierarchy.  "...research on this point is complicated by the widely mistaken belief that Maslow considered needs must be fully satisfied at each level before progressing. In fact, Maslow stated that everyone has unsatisfied needs at every level – who feels safe 100 percent of the time?"

3. Trying to Put the Value of Patient-Doctor Relationship: This New York Times article blew me away. Very well written. Based on Dr. David Meltze research, an economist and a primary-care physician at the University of Chicago, he and his team may be the first and only researchers in the country trying to quantify that relationship’s value in a randomized clinical trial, the most rigorous scientific method.
"...the patient-doctor relationship can significantly reduce patients’ hospitalizations and expenses (to hospitals and Medicare) and improve their mental health; it remains to be seen whether that will be enough to influence the plans that corporations, drawing on their expertise in efficiency and customer service, have to redesign the health care system. "
(Hat tip to Dr. Jim Reynolds)

4. Our Misconceptions about Cancer Health Screens: This is based on Gerd Gigerenzer and colleagues body of research. This completely changed my mind about cancer health screens, or other types of health screens. 
I'm going to blog about this. I highly recommend that if this article interests you to read Gigerenzer's most recent book, Risk Savvy. One of the TOP 5 books I've read this year.

5. How Your Daily Routine Can Turn Into Your Biggest Enemy: I greatly admire and I am jealous of Ryan Holiday. He's a brilliant thinker and writer (Great books like The Obstacle is the Way, The Ego is the Enemy). And he's only 31.
In our culture that is obsessed with productivity and setting up the routine to live by, this short article is well worth the read.

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Let me know if you found this useful or not. If you stuff like this, more to come!
 

Upcoming Workshops

One of the highlights for me each year is running this highly intensive and content-rich course with my mentor and collaborator, Scott Miller. 

Join us this summer in Chicago, 9th and 10th of August! We get clinicians all over the world coming to join us—a handful of this elect group even come back year to this intensive course year after year! click here for details.

We only have a few seats left, as we intentional limit the numbers so that we can provide a more intimate learning experience.

(For those of you at the Train the Trainers on the 6-8th of Aug 18, see you there!)

Til then, please stay in touch.  Love to hear back from you, if you have any questions or comments.

Reach me at daryl@darylchow.com  
 
p/s: Please excuse the typos. I'm prone to mistakes. (especially writing in a car).

Blessings,

Daryl 

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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