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n this week's tip, I'd talk about how we can specifically listen for changes between sessions, and why measuring a person's wellbeing matters more than a symptom-specific measure. If you have missed the previous videos on how to improve working alliance and being outcome informed, here are links: Seek to be Disconfirmed The Devil is the Details Between Sessions How to Use Measures Less Like an Assessment Tool... Time Stamps: 00:00: Introduction 00:47: Listening for Differences Between Sessions 01:02: Limits of Symptom-Specific Measures 02:53: Paying Attention to Changes Outside of Therapy Note: Any personally identifiable information in clinical examples used are changed, in order to protect their confidentiality and privacy. Related Links: Melissa Bond's research on the limitations of the DASS measure and why it was not designed to be used as a routine outcome measure. Podcast episode on The Dyson Vacuum Cleaner and Making Progress Visible   --- 📜 Becoming a Deep Learner: If you value lifelong learning and want to leverage this into your clinical effectiveness as a mental health professional, check out The Deep Learner course. https://darylchowcourses.teachable.com/p/deeplearner/ - -- 🎁 Finally, would like to receive 5 wicked handpicked recommendations each Friday? Subscribe to our Frontiers Friday newsletter: 🎯 https://darylchow.substack.com Here's a sample of past FF newsletters: 1. On Highly Sensitive Persons: https://darylchow.substack.com/p/4760832_frontiers-friday-101-sensitivity-part-i- 2. On Emotions: https://darylchow.substack.com/p/4760804_frontiers-friday-95-emotions-part-i- 3. On Deliberate Practice: https://darylchow.substack.com/p/4760599_frontiers-friday-51-deliberate-practice-part-v-   

In this week's Therapy Tip of the Week #7 (TTW), we talk about how to use outcome monitoring tools, not as an assessment tool, but as a conversational tool. If you have missed the previous videos on how to improve working alliance, here are links: 1. Seek to be Dis-confirmed 2. The Devil is the Details Between Sessions  3. How to Elicit Nuanced Feedback  ⏳ Time Stamps: 00:00: Introduction 00:40: Not Just an Assessment Tool 01:08: Why Measure at Each Session 02:44: A Clinical Example of Conflicting Ratings ➡ Sidenote: There are backfire effects if we use measures purely as an assessment tool. See this: The Tyranny of Metrics. Note: Any personally identifiable information in clinical examples used are changed, in order to protect their confidentiality and privacy. --- 📜 Becoming a Deep Learner: If you value lifelong learning and want to leverage this into your clinical effectiveness as a mental health professional, check out The Deep Learner course. https://darylchowcourses.teachable.com/p/deeplearner/ - -- 🎁 Finally, would like to receive 5 wicked handpicked recommendations each Friday? Subscribe to our Frontiers Friday newsletter: 🎯 https://darylchow.substack.com Here's a sample of past FF newsletters: 1. On Highly Sensitive Persons: https://darylchow.substack.com/p/4760832_frontiers-friday-101-sensitivity-part-i- 2. On Emotions: https://darylchow.substack.com/p/4760804_frontiers-friday-95-emotions-part-i- 3. On Deliberate Practice: https://darylchow.substack.com/p/4760599_frontiers-friday-51-deliberate-practice-part-v- 

In Therapy Tip of the Week #6, we continue on the topic of improving working alliance. Here's my recommendation, when seeking for feedback, avoid talking about... you! If you have missed the previous videos on how to improve working alliance, here are links: ⏳ Time Stamps: 00:00: Introduction 01:00: Using Depersonalised language 01:42: What Feedback is Not 02:02: Feedback to Feed-Forward 04:14: Summary Note: Any personally identifiable information in clinical examples used are changed, in order to protect their confidentiality and privacy. 📕 Related Link: Capturing Weekly Therapy Learnings How Do You Get Better At Eliciting Feedback? How Do You Get Better at Receiving Feedback? 📜 Becoming a Deep Learner: If you value lifelong learning and want to leverage this into your clinical effectiveness as a mental health professional, check out The Deep Learner course. https://darylchowcourses.teachable.com/p/deeplearner/ --- 🎁 Finally, would like to receive 5 wicked recommendations each Friday? Subscribe to our Frontiers Friday newsletter:   🎯https://darylchow.substack.com Here's a sample of past FF newsletters: 1. On Highly Sensitive Persons: https://darylchow.substack.com/p/4760832_frontiers-friday-101-sensitivity-part-i- 2. On Emotions: https://darylchow.substack.com/p/4760804_frontiers-friday-95-emotions-part-i- 3. On Deliberate Practice: https://darylchow.substack.com/p/4760599_frontiers-friday-51-deliberate-practice-part-v-            

"Every impactful person brings to you themselves and not needing to proof ‘how impactful I am’, ‘how smart I am’, and ‘how needed I am.’" ~ Sr Joan Chittister. If the therapy room is a vessel, it needs a scaffold in order for you to create a healing environment so as to help the person who is in distress. But how do you structure a therapeutic session so that it is impactful for your client and not get caught up with trying to be “impactful…smart…needed”? I want to help you solve this particular issue: How to develop a sense of structure in how you conduct therapy sessions. Shownotes:  1. To read this article, go to https://darylchow.substack.com  2. Charles Eisenstein (see his Substack newsletter and his books, Sacred Economics and The More Beautiful World That Our Hearts Know). 3. Cultures of Healing by Robert Fancher 4. To Sign up to Structure and Impact, click here. 

Dissonance can be a powerful ingredient for learning. How do we challenge our intuition in order to listen to our client's unspokens in order to foster a deeper connection with them? In this video, I recommend an exercise that I use called the "Rate and Predict," to help me open up the conversation in therapy. ⏳ Time Stamps: 00:00 Introduction 00:25: What is the Rate and Predict Exercise? 01:25: Seeking to be Disconfirmed 02:30: A Clinical Example Note: Any personally identifiable information in clinical examples used are changed, in order to protect their confidentiality and privacy. 📕 Related Link: 1. https://darylchow.com/frontiers/the-tension-of-opposites-clinical-intuition-vs-clinical-data-part-2-of-2/  --- 📜 Becoming a Deep Learner: If you value lifelong learning and want to leverage this into your clinical effectiveness as a mental health professional, check out The Deep Learner course. https://darylchowcourses.teachable.com/p/deeplearner/  --- 🎁 Finally, would like to receive 5 wicked recommendations each Friday? Subscribe to our Frontiers Friday newsletter: https://darylchow.substack.com Here's a sample of past FF newsletters: 1. On Highly Sensitive Persons: https://darylchow.substack.com/p/4760832_frontiers-friday-101-sensitivity-part-i-   2. On Emotions: https://darylchow.substack.com/p/4760804_frontiers-friday-95-emotions-part-i-   3. On Deliberate Practice: https://darylchow.substack.com/p/4760599_frontiers-friday-51-deliberate-practice-part-v- 

In this week's therapy tip of the week, we are going to talk about the subject that you as a psychotherapist would be more than familiar with–except that it's not what you expect. ⏳ Time Stamps: 00:00 Introduction 01:08 Three Parts of Working Alliance 01:53 Perspective Taking vs. Perspective Getting 03:14 Highly Effective Therapists and Lower Initial Working Alliance Ratings 03:43 Tip: Compare and Contrast Between Sessions Note: Any personally identifiable information in clinical examples used are changed, in order to protect their confidentiality and privacy. 📕 Resources/ Related Links: 1. https://darylchow.com/frontiers/altered/  2. https://darylchow.com/frontiers/solvingforpatterns/ --- 📜 Becoming a Deep Learner: If you value lifelong learning and want to leverage this into your clinical effectiveness as a mental health professional, check out The Deep Learner course.  --- 🎁 Finally, would like to receive 5 wicked recommendations each Friday? Subscribe to our Frontiers Friday newsletter: https://darylchow.substack.com  Here's a sample of past FF newsletters: 1. On Highly Sensitive Persons:  2. On Emotions:  3. On Deliberate Practice: 

As psychotherapists, it's easy to get lost in our heads. Our pet theories end up dominating and preventing us from being in touch with the person in front of us. In this Therapy Tip of the Week, I'd talk about how psychotherapists can employ principles of embodied cognition—the idea of embodiment as a way of thinking—to help you deepen your empathic understanding of your clients, especially in stuck situations. ⏳ Time Stamps: 1. Intro (00:00) 2. What is embodied cognition? A clinical example (00:42) 3. Personal story (04:59) 4. Related resources on embodied cognition (06:31) Note: Any personally identifiable information in clinical examples used are changed, in order to protect their confidentiality and privacy. 📕 Resources: 1. Focusing by Eugene Gendlin: focusing.org 2. The Extended Mind by Annie Murphy Paul --- 📜 Becoming a Deep Learner: If you value lifelong learning and want to leverage this into your clinical effectiveness as a mental health professional, check out The Deep Learner course. https://darylchowcourses.teachable.com/p/deeplearner/ --- 🎁 Finally, would like to receive 5 wicked recommendations each Friday? Subscribe to our Frontiers Friday newsletter: https://darylchow.substack.com  Here's a sample of past FF newsletters: 1. On Highly Sensitive Persons: https://mailchi.mp/darylchow/101frontiersfriday   2. On Emotions: https://mailchi.mp/darylchow/95frontiersfriday   3. On Deliberate Practice: https://mailchi.mp/darylchow/51frontiersfriday 

Understanding the current season you are in helps you figure out where you are at, in order to know where you need to go. Appreciating the seasonality of your inner and outer life provides you a navigational guide as to where you need to nurture your nature. In this video, I provide a way to open a conversational doorway about this with your client, so as to provide focus and directionality of the therapeutic endeavour. ⏳ Time Stamps: 1. Intro (00:00) 2. What to ask your clients (00:59) 3. The Season Points to the Needs (02:07) 4. A Clinical Example (02:32) Note: Any personally identifiable information in clinical examples used are changed, in order to protect their confidentiality and privacy. 📕 Resources: 1. The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Neil Howe 2. Wintering by Catherine May --- 📜 Becoming a Deep Learner: If you value lifelong learning and want to leverage this into your clinical effectiveness as a mental health professional, check out The Deep Learner course. ---  --- 🎁 Finally, would like to receive 5 wicked recommendations each Friday? Subscribe to our Frontiers Friday newsletter: https://darylchow.substack.com   Here's a sample of past FF newsletters: 1. On Highly Sensitive Persons: https://mailchi.mp/darylchow/101frontiersfriday 2. On Emotions: https://mailchi.mp/darylchow/95frontiersfriday 3. On Deliberate Practice: https://mailchi.mp/darylchow/51frontiersfriday 

In this series on Therapy Tip of the Week, we'll provide psychologists, counsellors and psychotherapists one practical tip in each episode. My idea of giving you this is not so much as to prescribe to you what you should be doing, but to describe possibilities, to give you ideas that can inspire you to create your own ideas in the practice of psychotherapy. My hopes of doing this is that it may widen the palette of possibilities to allow you to see a wide array of different things that you could do that is not restricted by particular theoretical models, but tapping into various schools of therapy that can help you in a synergistic and integrative way. By exploring these various tips of the week, I hope that you get to think about how to construct first principles that will guide you in your work as well. In this episode, I talk about one idea relating to William Glasser's 5 Basic Needs: 1. Survival 2. Love and Belonging 3. Autonomy 4. Freedom 5. Fun For the video version, go to https://youtu.be/1v1XxBGFdUc  ⏳ Time Stamps: 1. Intro (00:00) 2. Capturing Your Weekly Therapy Learnings (01:29) 3. 5 Basic Needs (02:18) i. Survival (03:27) ii. Love and Belonging (3:49) iii. Autonomy (04:20) iv. Freedom (04:34) v. Fun (04:57) 4. A Clinical Example ✍️ Shownotes: 1. darylchow.com/frontiers/weeklytherapylearnings 2. William Glasser Reality Therapy / Choice Theory 3. Check out the Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development website: darylchow.com/frontiers 4. Note: Any personally identifiable information in clinical examples used are changed, in order to protect their confidentiality and privacy. 📜 Becoming a Deep Learner: If you value lifelong learning and want to leverage this into your clinicial effectiveness as a mental health professional, check out The Deep Learner course. https://darylchowcourses.teachable.com/p/deeplearner/  🎁 Finally, would like to receive 5 wicked recommendations each Friday? Subscribe to our Frontiers Friday newsletter Here's a sample of past FF newsletters: 1. On Highly Sensitive Persons 2. On Emotions 3. On Deliberate Practice

In this esisode, I will walk you through on a practical level, how to use a framework of clinical supervision to translate to actual improvement in outcome. We will take a step-by-step approach to examine what entails a "Coaching for Performance" and "Coaching for Development" framework. For more, check out the course Reigniting Clinical Supervision (RCS), darylchow.com/courses Time Stamps: Introduction (0:00) Coaching for Performance and Development (01:07) Components of Coaching for Performance (02:05) What is Supervision Really For? (06:20) Components of Coaching for Development (06:56) Visual Guide for Reigniting Clinical Supervision (11:43) --- For the video version, see: https://youtu.be/zM3YXLaFVjk

This is a keynote address given by Daryl Chow, Ph.D. for a virtual conference hosted by the University of New South Wales (UNSW). Cumulative evidence in psychotherapy suggests that we not only do not improve with experience, our typical professional development efforts by attending workshops, and engaging in clinical supervision do not lead to better performance. The aim of this keynote is to address the current cutting edge development of deliberate practice in psychotherapy, and its implications on how we can leverage to improve our outcomes. Timestamps: Introduction (0:00) Why the Distinction Between Performing and Learning is Critical (06:03) Pop Quiz (07:33) Effectiveness of Psychotherapy (09:35) Definition of Deliberate Practice (16:11) 4 Levels to Deliberate Practice (20:05) Clinical Supervision (22:06) I. The Edges (24:28) 1. Super-Vision (24:55) 2. Measure Growth, Not Competence (26:34) 3. Reduce Negative Variance and Increase Positive Variance (28:23) II. The Leverages (30:03) 1. The 80/20 Rule (30:34) 2. Three Types of Knowledge (31:54) 3. Develop a Centralised Personal Learning System (PLS) (32:42) Closing: 4 Types of Learners. The Dabbler, The Hacker, The Obsessive, and Mastery Learning/The Late Bloomer: (36:20) --- For the Gift Pack cited in this keynote, go to darylchow.com/traininggifts   For more about the Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development, go to darylchow.com/frontiers Big thanks to UNSW Masters of Forensic Psychology and Master of Clinical Psychology Programs for making this publicly available.

In this exclusive episode #10 on Frontiers Radio, we have a special guest, Dr. Scott Miller. We talked about several luminary figures who shaped and influenced his life, pivotal turning points, the writing process and his thoughts around the future of psychotherapy.   Time Stamps Intro (00:00) People who shaped Scott's life (05:30) Lynn Johnson and Hal Miller (07:11) Michael Lambert (15:36) On Writing (18:24) Impact of changing track from accounting to psychology (21:15) Pivotal Turning Points (24:50) Why Scott Wrote Book of A Mormon (29:39) Mark Hubble (42:O0) The Losing Faith Article (44:19) Scott Miller's evolution (48:39) The Moving Bubble (52:52) Measurement (54:12) K Anders Ericcson (56:21) Bruce Wampold (62:53) The Bubble Redux: Going Forward in the Application of Deliberate Practice (65:35) Taxonomy of Deliberate Practice Activities (TDPA) worksheets (72:31) For more details of show notes and the video edition, go to darylchow.com/frontiers/episode10

I believe one of the most critical things you can do is to create a personalised learning system (PLS). Though the payoff is not immediate, but like growing a seed, the benefit is tremendous, especially if you value personal and professional development. In this episode of Frontiers Radio, I take you down a road trip of my note-taking system, and why, after over 10 years, I'm now making a switch to an app call Obsidian. For shownotes go to darylchow.com/frontiers/episode9   or watch the video version on https://youtu.be/KpBfmtpP2h8 For more details on the Deep Learner web-based workshop, go to darylchow.com/courses

In the 1950s, A fairly unusual be-spectacled and slender Lieutenant Gilbert Daniels was tasked to solve one of the biggest problems in the US Air Force: Plane crashes. What he unravelled in the process holds a unique lesson for psychotherapists, and why we have been failing to implement and scale "evidence-based" practices as we try to fit the "average person" instead of the individual.

We pay tribute to K. Anders Ericsson in today's episode.  He is known by many to be "the expert on expertise." His work, along with his colleagues had a profound impact on a wide array of professional domains such as sports, music, chess, and more recently in the field of psychotherapy. His four decades worth of research also informed the hugely popular book by Malcolm Gladwell, Outlier. (Though the "10,000hr" rule thing got misrepresented by others). ~~~ In this episode, you'd hear - the impact he had on me personally. - the foreword that he wrote for our book, Better Results (co-authored with Scott Miller and Mark Hubble, APA, 2020), and - a short poem I wrote in Oct 23, 2010 that was dedicated to him.  Better Results book was also dedicated to Dr. Ericsson.  ~~~ Show Notes: Peak by Ericsson and Pool Ericsson, Krampe and Teach-Römer's seminal article on The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance The Music of Psychotherapy: Learning in a Wicked Environment (a blogpost I wrote  in Aug 2019 about my first encounter with Ericsson in Kansas City) Scott Miller's recent interview with Ericsson. A meta-analysis on deliberate practice by Macnamara et al. 2014 Our reanalysis of the 2014 meta-analysis Music, Right in Front of Me, by Daryl Chow and produced by DC and Joel Louie.

I found myself telling this story to me kids some nights ago. I believe it's worth retelling here, especially in the current anxious climate surrounding the coronavirus. After the story, I say a few words about why we need to express our heartfelt thanks to people behind the scenes in our healthcare. Plus, why we must support our local communities and businesses when this comes to pass. And finally, news about our Deep Learner workshop, plus giveaway of the audiobook version of my book. Promo code is given near the end of this episode. Thank you for listening. Thank you for your continued care of your clients in therapy through this global pandemic. Take precious care. p/s: Due to copyrights reason, I'm not able to use a song that you must listen in these times. Play George Harrison's All Things Must Pass after listening to this episode. 

"I spent half of my life lost in an education system that pushed for results and performance... and failed.. Even when I Began to perform well in undergrad and so on, I wasn't learning; I was performing." In today's episode, we draw a distinction between "performing" and "learning," and what we can do to become deep learners. For a video version of this episode, go to https://youtu.be/APLjlZJa3B0  If you haven't subscribed to the Frontiers list to get updates to help you be at your leading edge of development, click here Show notes:  1. For more on performing vs learning, check out the research done by Robert Bjork and his colleagues.  Soderstrom, N. C., & Bjork, R. A. (2015). Learning Versus Performance: An Integrative Review. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 10(2), 176-199. doi:10.1177/1745691615569000  2. For more about the Deep Learner web-based workshop, go to darylchow.com/courses. 

No manufacturing company in the US and UK was initially willing to license his vacuum cleaner.  James Dyson was laughed at for designing a transparent vacuum cleaner that showed all the filth it sucked up.  Today, Dyson the company returns over $500 million in annual profits and employs nearly seven thousand people worldwide. Had the founder given up on the “bagless” vacuum cleaner idea, Dyson would be just another name. Turns out, therapists have one critical thing to learn from James Dyson's innovation: Making progress visible. --- Also, listen at the end for a really important question from one of our listeners.

"The actual path of a raindrop as it goes down the valley is unpredictable, but the general direction is inevitable."~ Kevin Kelly. In this episode, I spell out 9 potential forces that will shape our future in the field of psychotherapy. If we are stay on the bleeding edge of not only our professional development, and also have an inkling where our field is going, you'd wanna tune to this episode. Here are the 9 forces to pay attention to:  1. "We will be wrong." 2. The Inflation of diagnosis 3. There will be new fads 4. The ethics of routine outcome monitoring (ROM) 5. Flesh and machine 6. Practice-based evidence 7. Accountability in professional development activities 8. A movement towards theoretical orientation? and 9. YOU. ~~~ If you have questions that you like to share on Frontiers Radio, we would love to hear from you! Record in your voice memo, and email it to info@darylchow.com . I'd do my best to respond to you! For more on topics related to your development go to the blog, Frontiers of Psychotherapists Development

  If we were given a chance to reimagine education in psychotherapy, how might it look like? How would we design the learning process? What needs to change and evolve? In this podcast episode, we discuss about two different approaches to educating psychotherapists: the banking model vs. the kindling model. Turns out, which path we take makes a huge difference.  For the blog version of this episode, go to https://darylchow.com/frontiers/kindling-the-flame/