Practical Exercises for Mental Health Professionals
- 1st Edition - August 8, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Authors: Jordan Bawks, Shelley Mcmain, Anne Sonley, Tony Rousmaniere, Alexandre Magalhaes Vaz
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 7 6 5 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 7 6 6 - 9
While there are many books that describe the theories and research of clinical psychology and psychiatry, there are few resources that provide structured simulations for re… Read more
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Request a sales quoteWhile there are many books that describe the theories and research of clinical psychology and psychiatry, there are few resources that provide structured simulations for rehearsal and advancement of the critical skills mental health professionals need in the field. Advanced Therapeutics, Clinical and Interpersonal Skills series aims to fill that gap. Authored and edited by leading experts, each volume in the series focuses on one subfield within mental health, providing concise and practical exercises for professionals. Each volume is based on an empirically based pedagogy that is structured, incremental, and tightly focused on the essential skills mental health professionals must acquire to obtain licensure/registration and work effectively with mental health patients. Practical Exercises for Mental Health Professionals is volume one in the series, focusing on providing concise and practical exercises for clinicians of any theoretical orientation and clinical role. These exercises include repairing alliance ruptures, motivating patients to address barriers to change, suicidal behavior strategies and establishing boundaries and limits. Each of these exercises have been tested by leading experts and clinics in the field.
- Uses Deliberate Practice methodology to enhance clinical skill acquisition, which can be adapted for use by individuals, in supervision pairings, small peer learning groups, and/or in large group settings.
- Focuses on evidence based "common-factor" clinical communication skills that are proven to be related to improved therapeutic relationships and superior patient outcomes.
- Each skill exercise comes with multiple levels of difficulty to allow individuals to train at their unique growth edge based on their level of training and experience.
Practitioners and researchers in clinical psychology, medical trainees, nurses, social workers, counsellors and therapists
Part I. 1. Overview of this book 2. Instructions for the deliberate practice exercises Part II. Deliberate practice exercises Exercise #1: Empathic validation Exercise #2: Affirmation and building Exercise # 3: Goal setting Exercise #4: Promoting change talk Exercise #5: Working with problematic thoughts Exercise #6: Exploring emotional experience Exercise #7: Using behaviors to change emotion Exercise #8: Coaching emotionally dysregulated patients Exercise #9: Responding to suicidal ideation and behavior Exercise #10: Communicating personal limits Exercise #11: Repairing relationship ruptures Exercise #12: Clinician self-awareness Exercise #13: Mock sessions Part 3. Additional resources 3. Sample syllabus with embedded deliberate practice exercises 4. Taking the next step: Resources for further study
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 8, 2023
- No. of pages (Paperback): 250
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323997652
- eBook ISBN: 9780323997669
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Jordan Bawks
Jordan Bawks, MD, is a recent graduate of the University of Toronto Psychiatry Residency program, and now works as a general adult psychiatrist at Joseph Brant Hospital in Burlington, Ontario. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct) at McMaster University in the department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, with a special interest in psychotherapy education and therapeutic communication. He is a post-academic Candidate at the Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. During his psychiatric residency he was a core member of the PsychEd Podcast (psychedpodcast.org) and received several teaching awards, including the Resident Psychiatric Educator Award with the Association for Academic Psychiatry.
Affiliations and expertise
General Adult Psychiatrist, Joseph Brant Hospital, Burlington, Ontario, CanadaSM
Shelley Mcmain
Shelley McMain, Ph.D., is the Head of the Borderline Personality Disorder Clinic and a Clinician Scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, Canada. She is the Director of the Psychotherapy, Humanities and Psychosocial Interventions Division and an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto. She is the Past-President for the Society for Psychotherapy Research. She is currently the President of the transitional board of the World Federation of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy. Dr. McMain has published more than 85 articles and book chapters in respected scientific journals including the American Journal of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic, Biological Psychiatry mainly on borderline personality disorder, dialectical behaviour therapy, emotion dysregulation, and predictors and mechanisms psychotherapy outcome. She has received several international awards for her psychotherapy research as well as various teaching awards.
Affiliations and expertise
Head, Borderline Personality Disorder Clinic; Clinician Scientist, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, CanadaAS
Anne Sonley
Dr. Sonley MD is a lecturer and fulltime clinician teacher at the University of Toronto.
Affiliations and expertise
Lecturer, University of Toronto, Toronto, CanadaTR
Tony Rousmaniere
Tony Rousmaniere runs the psychotherapy training website www.dpfortherapists.com and provides workshops, webinars, and advanced clinical training and supervision to clinicians around the world. Dr. Rousmaniere is the author/co-editor of the forthcoming book series “The Essentials of Deliberate Practice” (APA Press) and four books on psychotherapy training: Deliberate Practice for Psychotherapists, The Cycle of Excellence: Using Deliberate Practice to Improve Supervision and Training, Mastering the Inner Skills of Psychotherapy: A Deliberate Practice Handbook, and Using Technology to Enhance Counseling Training and Supervision: A Practical Handbook. In 2017 he published the widely-cited article in The Atlantic Monthly, “What your therapist doesn’t know”. Dr. Rousmaniere supports the open-data movement and publishes his aggregated clinical outcome data, in de-identified form, on his website at www.drtonyr.com.
Affiliations and expertise
Clinical Faculty, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USAAM
Alexandre Magalhaes Vaz
Alexandre Vaz is Co-Editor of the American Psychological Association Press’s upcoming book series “The Essentials of Deliberate Practice”. He has presented numerous peer-review papers and held various committee roles for the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) and the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration (SEPI), and is part of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Clinical Psychology: In Session. Dr. Vaz is also founder and host of the Psychotherapy Expert Talks, an acclaimed interview series with distinguished therapists and researchers; and author on the 3rd edition of the Handbook of Psychotherapy Integration (2019, Oxford Press).
Affiliations and expertise
Clinical Psychologist, Teacher and Psychotherapy Researcher, ISPA-University Institute, Lisbon, PortugalRead Practical Exercises for Mental Health Professionals on ScienceDirect