10 Years of Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development (FPD, Part III). Frontiers Friday #191 ⭕️
The scientific process, AI, HSP, ASD, empathy, and a high-leverage strategy.
Is The Scientific Paper a Fraud?
We had a discussion on the process publishing peer-reviewed journal articles in our last Fire-Side Chat. This article came to mind.
(We have 2 new publications that has just been approved. Once we get the pre-print, we will share them with you here. So stay tuned and sign up to FPD below if you haven’t already).Can ChatGPT Replace Psychotherapy?
“Computers are useless,” said Pablo Picasso in a 1964 Paris Interview. “They can only give you answers."
Did you know that before ChatGPT, a bot was built in the 1960s to parody Carl Rogers? It was called Eliza.
There’s more… see how Eliza gets agitated with me as the “conversation” continues. For some reason, this article has been more popular than I expected.
Sidenote: Strangely, the original Elon Musk interview that was embedded in the article is no longer available. I’ve found another source, and have added back in. Listen to the segment at 7:40 mins.Highly Sensitive Persons (HSPs)
I wrote a series of Frontiers Friday missives on this topic about 2 years ago.
This came to mind as someone told me that one of her autistic friends said, “you only call yourself a HSP because you are denying that you are actually autistic.”
In one of the recommendations (part III), I addressed this issue between ASD and HSP.
Here’s the 3-part series:I also highly recommend this interview with comedian Fern Brady. Highly insightful take on the navigating the world with autism (her iPhone vs Android analogy is useful).
Watch her Netflix special too!To Understand? Easy. To Help Someone Feel Understood? Difficult
It’s one thing to understand your client, and it’s quite another to help them feel understood.
This applies not only in the therapy room, but also at home. I notice the challenge of helping my kids feel understood, before they can take in what I’m trying to get across. In our eagerness (more accurately, impatience) to help them “learn,” we fail to take the first step of helping them feel understood by us, what is unspoken on the inside.
It’s only when we are connected that we have a fighting chance of our two minds becoming of one mind.Develop a Fast and Frugal Clinical Decision Pathway
Given the feedback from clinicians, supervisors and organisations, this is a highly useful strategy to consider.
Notice Board
Deliberate Practice Web-Based Workshop
It’s been more than a year since Scott Miller and I ran the last cohort for this.
The 7th Cohort for Deliberate Practice Web-Based Workshop in-depth asynchronous course is now open for registration!
We take you on a deep-dive into everything we know on this topic, and walk you through step-by-step on how you can leverage DP to improve your work as a practitioner.
Scott and I will be actively responding to queries and points of reflection each step of the way.
The “Why” for this course:
To get you at your personal growth edge and out of the endless model-limited beliefs, so that you can actually get better client outcomes.
Kick-off Date: 5th of Aug 2024
Format:
We will pace the learning by "dripping" to your inbox the content every MONDAYS and FRIDAYS for close to 3 months. This is also self-paced, i.e., you get to revisit any of the previous topics at any time—-and it's a LIFETIME ACCESS!
SPECIAL NOTE:
If you are on Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development (FPD) list, do use the following $100 discount code at checkout: DPTEAM
If you are at a country where the currency is at a significant disadvantage, email us at admin@darylchow.com. We will do our best to help.The Measured Course: Pay-for-What-You-Want:
I’ve been really taken by the idea of true Gifts, as described by writers like Lewis Hyde and Charles Eisenstein.
I vividly remember the day Radiohead released their 2007 album, In Rainbows (on my birthday). I couldn’t believe it. I never heard of such a price-point. You mean, I could just pay $1 or $1000?!
It was a “pay-for-what-you-want” model. I couldn’t make sense of it. I was a huge fan, so I bought it at $20, because I thought that’s what you’d pay for a CD. I loved the album so much that later on, I went to the now defunct Tower Records and bought the physical copy.
I’m telling you this naive story of mine because I’ve been wanting to embrace this Gift business model for a long time, but just didn’t have the courage to do so.
Well, I’m doing so now.
I have a course, that I’ve not publicised. It’s called Measured. It’s a nuts and bolts of Feedback Informed Treatment (FIT). If you are just getting started with measuring outcomes, and don’t want to use it just as an evaluative tool, but more of a conversational tool, this is for you.
A Gift is only a gift if it meets a need. If you would like to get this online course, drop us an email at admin@darylchow.com. John or I will send you a special code, and then we will send you PayPal/Wise details for your “pay-for-what-you-want” option. I’d do this until the end of June 2024, and see how it goes.
Daryl Chow Ph.D. is the author of The First Kiss, co-author of Better Results, The Write to Recovery, Creating Impact, and the latest book The Field Guide to Better Results.