10 Years of Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development (FPD, Part IV). Frontiers Friday #192 ⭕️
And a special new gift for the 6th anniversary of The First Kiss: Undoing the Intake Model...
This is part IV of the 10 years in writing for Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development (FPD), helping practitioners move toward at their bleeding edge. We dig into the archives, as well as commemorate the 6th anniversary of the book, The First Kiss: Undoing the Intake Model… with a special new bonus material.
I did a whole six-part series on this topic of ADHD. Because of the proliferation of TikTok and Instagram advice, I think it’s getting out of hand. This also has a backfire effect on folks who would really benefit from such a diagnosis.
Nick Haslam’s idea of “Concept Creep” is applicable here. (See Part I)In the rest of the series, I talked about a concept to frame our approach to helping people with ADHD: Dailies, Strategies, Skills, Pills:
The Unspeakable in Therapy. Frontiers Friday #170 ⭕️ (Part I)
Substack is telling me that this has been the most popular article so far. Why is that the case? I don’t really know for sure.I would like to write more like this post. What do you think?
This is a more recent article from my other Substack, Full Circles: Meditations on the Inner and Outer Life (you can subscribe to FC here if you are interested.
Undoing the Intake Model in Psychotherapy
This is an except from the book. I’ve also made available more preview chapters than on Amazon in my website (see here).
NEW BONUS ANNIVERSARY GIFT:
For those of you who have bought the book, I’m giving you a special folder that you can add to a wicked (and free) note-taking app called Obsidian
In this folder, it is the ENTIRE book, along with its bi-directional links within each chapters, creating a network system of the book.
Once you got the book into Obsidian, you can also see the Graph view in the app. If you are new to Obsidian, you can watch a series of 6 videos I did on using this free software to create my Personalised Learning System (PLS).
Instructions on How to retrieve this added bonus:
i. If you bought the book: Go to the back of the book, My Gift to You, and go to the URL. The sub-folder in dropbox is called, First Kiss Book in Obsidian.
ii. How to add the book into Obsidian: After you have downloaded Obsidian, simply click File/Open Vault, and select the folder First Kiss Books in Obsidian.
iii. If you can’t find it, drop us an email at admin@darylchow.com
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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.