ON THE FRONTIER: Frontiers of Psychotherapist Newsletter AUG'19.
Hi Folks on the Frontier,
It was a real treat to be practitioners and leaders from all over at the Deliberate Practice Intensive workshops in Chicago. Since we started this annual workshop in 2015, Scott Miller and I believe this is our best round of refinement of the content.
I highly suspect that this is in part due to the fact that we've completed writing the book, together with Mark Hubble, Better Results: Using Deliberate Practice to Improve Therapeutic Effectiveness. Given the revisions and usual publishers timeline, APA is likely to release this by the first half of 2020. Stay tuned.
I headed to Sydney after the stint in US (thank goodness I made it through Hong Kong transit. My thoughts and prayers for friends in HK as the protests goes on). I had the chance to consult with the team at St Vincent Hospital, NSW, and take part at a forum held by NADA (Network of Alcohol and other Drug Agencies). The them was on the use of outcomes to guide treatment.
I was deeply moved by three things:
1. A client's sharing of her experience of a therapist using outcomes to guide treatment ("...I actually had a say on where treatment should go...")
2. Psychiatrist Diana Ranguihuna and her husband, artist, Mark Kopua from New Zealand (watch a video of them in another context here.). I was so transfixed in one of their storytelling paired with a real-time live drawing by Mark, I suspect I was induced into a therapeutic trance.
3. NSW Ministry of Health, epidemiologist Michelle Cretikos took part in the entire day's forum and provided her support for the ongoing use of feedback informed approaches to service deliveries. It's wonderful to hear from outside our field.
Big Thanks to David Hedger (Bottom Left) and Suzie Hudson (Bottom Right), and their team for making this forum a success.
For this month's newsletter:
1. Recent articles and interviews (from my desk and beyond);
2. Good reads, &
3. Reigniting Clinical Supervision Batch #7 is now open for registration!
Read on.
FROM MY DESK
Recent Blog Posts:
The Music of Psychotherapy: Learning in a Wicked Environment
6 Visuals About Our Progress
How Do You Go Faster on a Bicycle?
BEYOND MY DESK
Recent Interviews
1. Here's an interview that was recently featured on psychotherapy.net, Reigniting Clinical Supervision.
2. I was also interviewed by the very astute folks, Ben Fineman and Carrie Watta on Episode 11. The Intake Process is a Mess, with Daryl Chow, . Listen to the story of a client who had a bizarre intake experience. (You can listen to Very Bad Therapy on any podcast application that you use, iTunes, Stitcher, etc. I use Downcast).
Support their work, and check out other episodes. Ben and Carrie, though are in-training as therapists, are really helping the entire community to learn from the experience of others.
New Articles on Psychotherapy.net:
It’s Time for Supervisors to Help Clinicians Marry Data with Intuition
Monitoring Engagement in Clinical Supervision
For the archives, of my blogs in psychotherapy.net, click here. Or read the interview
NEW RELEASE:
The audiobook for The First Kiss: Undoing The Intake Model and Igniting First Sessions in Psychotherapy is FINALLY RELEASED!!
It's available in various platforms (Apple, Google Play, Kobo, Audiobooks.com), but the cheapest I've seen is on Amazon's Audible.
If you can, please leave a review so that others can find out about it. (Something to do with Amazon's algorithm). Thanks in advance.
Good Reads:
Social Jet-Lag?
Sleep matters. (Pair this read with Thom Yorke's recent release, Anima).
The Wrong Way to Get People to Do the Right Thing, by Alfie Kohn
I love Kohn's stuff on education and parenting.
How Iceland Got Teens to Say No to Drugs
I'm currently obsessing with how we can solve problems based on more elegant design of problems. This article, shared to me by my wife, is highly thought provoking. It is also written by an author, Emma Young, who also blogs for the British Psychological Society. Great read.
“Lack Of Scientific Proof” That Microdosing Psychedelic Drugs Improves Wellbeing Or Creativity
I've been really intrigued by what's coming out in the literature on the use of psychedelics, as well as the use of psychedelics to assist in therapy (Watch this TED talk by Rick Doblin). I have not made up my mind on this, so if you have an opinion about this, please drop me an email. Love to hear what you think.
“Stress is a perverted relationship with time.” ~ The late poet, John O-Donahue.
DOOR IS NOW OPEN!!!
The in-depth online course, Reigniting Clinical Supervision (RCS) is now open for registration!
𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲: 9th of Sept. 2019. (MON)
Closing Date: 6th of Sept, 2019.(FRI)
𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁
50+ VIDEOS, 24/7 Discussion Boards, 180+Days of Content, with Individual Follow-Up Consultation.
(For more, go to darylchow.com/courses)
This probably isn't the first time you heard about this course. We are already on the seventh inception of this in-depth training. If you are keen to join a band of deeply committed leaders in this field, sign up now!
If you want to get a sense about what this course is about, read this featured interview.
PROMO CODE:
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Limited Seats:
It sounds like BS when someone says that an online course has "limited space". I'm capping this to max 40 participants because I'm want to provide as much individual attention as I can to each learner. Many participants who were on the waitlist have already registered.
Plus, I'm providing a follow-up consult with each person, AT NO COST to you.
If you have any comments or questions you love for me to blog about, let me know!
You can reach me at info@darylchow.com
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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