Elite performers in any domain engage in substantially more deliberate practice (DP) than their less accomplished peers.  This is true in the practice of psychotherapy as well.  But attention to the use of DP in psychotherapy training and supervision is still relatively recent and so applications and understandings of it are still being developed.  The workshop will begin by differentiating psychotherapy expertise (which was the original impetus for attending to DP) from the related concept of psychotherapy competence.   It will provide a working definition of DP before describing and illustrating DP training and supervision practices for developing psychotherapy competence and expertise. Original webcast date: September 13, 2019. CC

Learning Objectives

1. Define deliberate practice and its impacts on performance.

2. Differentiate between the concepts of competence in psychotherapy and expertise in psychotherapy and discuss the  implications of their similarities and differences.

3. Describe at least one way they might use deliberate practice in their own training, supervision, or consultation.