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Practical Exercises for Mental Health Professionals
1st Edition - August 8, 2023
Authors: Jordan Bawks, Shelley Mcmain, Anne Sonley, Tony Rousmaniere, Alexandre Magalhaes Vaz
Paperback ISBN:9780323997652
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eBook ISBN:9780323997669
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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 rehearsal… Read more
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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 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
Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
About the authors
Acknowledgments
Part 1. Overview and instructions
Chapter 1. Overview of this book
Deliberate practice and professional expertise in mental health
The skills covered in this book
Final thoughts
Chapter 2. Instructions for the deliberate practice exercises
Structure
Instructions for practice
Additional information on the components of effective practice
Exercise #9: Responding to suicidal ideation and behavior
Skill description
Examples of this skill in practice
Patient statements
Example clinician responses
Exercise #10: Communicating personal limits
Skill description
Examples of this skill in practice
Patient statements
Example clinician responses
Exercise #11: Repairing relationship ruptures
Skill description
Examples of this skill in practice
Patient statements
Example clinician responses
Exercise #12: Clinician self-awareness
Skill description
Example
Patient statements
Exercise #13: Mock sessions
Mock session patient profiles and instructions
Part 3. Additional resources
Chapter 3. Sample syllabus with embedded deliberate practice exercises
Suggested format of class
Chapter 4. Taking the next step: Resources for further study
Further resources for exercise 1: Empathic validation
Further resources for exercise 2: Affirmation and building hope
Further resources for exercise 3: Goal setting
Further resources for exercise 4: Promoting change talk
Further resources for exercise 5: Working with problematic thoughts
Further resources for exercise 6: Exploring emotional experience
Further resources for exercise 7: Using behavior to change emotion
Further resources for exercise 8: Coaching emotionally dysregulated patients
Further resources for exercise 9: Responding to suicidal ideation and behavior
Further resources for exercise 10: Communicating personal limits
Further resources for exercise 11: Repairing relationship ruptures
Further resources for exercise 12: Clinician self-awareness
References
Index
No. of pages: 250
Language: English
Published: August 8, 2023
Imprint: Academic Press
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, Canada
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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, Canada
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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, Canada
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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, USA
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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, Portugal