Overview

Deliberate practice exercises help trainees achieve competence in essential psychodynamic therapy skills and apply them in a range of clinical situations while honing their own personal style and language.   These exercises present role-playing scenarios in which two trainees act as a patient and a therapist, switching back and forth under the guidance of a supervisor. The therapist improvises appropriate and authentic responses to patient statements organized into two difficulty levels—intermediate and advanced—that reflect common patient questions and concerns.   Each of the first 12 exercises focuses on a single skill, such as engaging in a therapeutic inquiry, deepening emotional experience, pointing out defenses, making transference interpretations, and providing corrective emotional experiences. Two comprehensive exercises follow in which trainees integrate these essential skills into a single psychodynamic therapy session.   Step-by-step instructions guide participants through the exercises, identify criteria for mastering each skill, and explain how to monitor and adjust difficulty. Guidelines to help trainers and trainees get the most out of training are also provided.

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Author:   Hanna Levenson ,  Volney Gay ,  Jeffrey L. Binder
Publisher:   American Psychological Association
Imprint:   American Psychological Association
ISBN:  

9781433836732

ISBN 10:   1433836734
Pages:   279
Publication Date:   27 June 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Series Preface Tony Rousmaniere and Alexandre Vaz Acknowledgments Part I. Overview and Instructions Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview of Deliberate Practice and Psychodynamic Therapy Chapter 2. Instructions for the Psychodynamic Therapy Deliberate Practice Exercises Part II. Deliberate Practice Exercises for Psychodynamic Therapy Skills Exercises for Intermediate Psychodynamic Therapy Skills Exercise 1. Engaging in a Therapeutic Inquiry Exercise 2. Being Aware of Countertransference Reactions Exercise 3. Deepening Emotional Experience Exercise 4. Making Process Comments Exercise 5. Pointing Out Defenses and Inquiring About Underlying Fear Exercise 6. Introducing the Rationale for Treatment Exercises for Advanced Psychodynamic Therapy Skills Exercise 7. Making Transference Interpretations Exercise 8. Using Metaphors Exercise 9. Exploring Fantasy Exercise 10. Case Formulation: Gathering Data for the Cyclical Maladaptive Pattern Exercise 11. Using Supervision to Recognize Reenactments Exercise 12. Providing a Corrective Emotional Experience Comprehensive Exercises Exercise 13. Annotated Interpersonal–Psychodynamic Therapy Session Transcripts Exercise 14. Mock Psychodynamic Therapy Sessions Part III. Strategies for Enhancing the Deliberate Practice Exercises Chapter 3. How to Get the Most Out of Deliberate Practice for Dynamic Psychotherapy: Additional Guidance for Trainers and Trainees Appendix A. Difficulty Assessments and Adjustments Appendix B. Deliberate Practice Diary Form Appendix C. Sample Psychodynamic Therapy Syllabus With Embedded Deliberate Practice Exercises References Index About the Authors About the Series Editors

Reviews

This book fills an essential need, one that has gone unaddressed for too long. The authors provide deceptively simple yet sophisticated exercises tailor-made for mastering skills that help beginning psychodynamic psychotherapists to settle into themselves and deepen their work with clients. These exercises elegantly complement the more usual—and indispensable—educational experiences of acquiring theoretical knowledge and participating in meaningful supervisory and personal therapy relationships, contributing to the development of creative, reflective, and skillful practitioners. -- Joan E. Sarnat, PhD, ABPP, Faculty and Supervising Analyst, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, San Francisco, CA, United States, and author of ""Supervision Essentials for Psychodynamic Psychotherapies"" Deliberate Practice in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy is a gift of clarity and focus to developing therapists. Too often, relational treatment approaches have been vague in helping trainees conceptualize and intervene within the therapeutic relationship. Many supervisees describe themselves as “imposters”—painfully unsure of what to say or do to help. This foundational text empowers therapists by providing experiential, multistep practices for each key concept. Kudos to the authors for bringing these comprehensive training practices to our field. -- Edward Teyber, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Psychology, California State University, San Bernardino, San Bernardino, CA, United States This is a rare gem of a book that distills the essence of psychodynamic therapy from an art form to a science that can be deliberately taught with focused, practical guidance and exercises that are graded for the beginner, intermediate, and advanced clinician. It will make supervisors better able to teach specific skills and help trainees find their own voice and become more effective therapists. Invaluable! -- Mantosh Dewan, MD, President and SUNY Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, United States This work represents the leading edge of innovation in the training and practice of psychotherapy. The authors effectively combine the scientific principles of deliberate practice to build expertise with focused clinical exercises designed to develop specific therapy skill sets. The integration between evidence-based learning strategies and clinical practice makes this a seminal work in the field of psychotherapy training and supervision. -- Mark Hilsenroth, PhD, Adelphi University, Derner School of Psychology, Garden City, NY, United States Psychodynamic psychotherapy teaching is typically conceptual or observational and is in competition with more skill-oriented modalities. The authors have identified some of the essential elements of psychodynamic psychotherapy and brilliantly created extremely effective exercises that enable trainees or experienced therapists to develop or hone specific relevant skills. These include traditional techniques that focus on process, defenses, and interpretation, as well as more affectively focused skills, such as deepening affect, use of metaphor, and the creation of corrective emotional experiences that facilitate achievement of effective outcomes in a time-sensitive and focused manner. -- Richard D. Lane, MD, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States This book provides psychotherapy clinicians, supervisors, and trainers with a unique, practice-based guide for the development of therapeutic expertise in brief psychodynamic psychotherapy. In particular, the identification and thoughtful delineation of 12 core skills that underlay psychodynamic therapy approaches, along with the provision of tailored experiential exercises that enhance skill development, will make a singular contribution to psychotherapy training and the practice literature. -- Lynne Angus, PhD, CPsych, Professor Emerita, Senior Scholar, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada

Author Information

Hanna Levenson, PhD, is a professor at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, California. She also maintains a private practice in Oakland where she sees individuals and couples for therapy and professionals for consultation/supervision. Dr. Levenson has specialized in brief dynamic therapy and supervision for 40 years. She has authored over 85 professional papers and three books (Time Limited Dynamic Psychotherapy, Brief Dynamic and Interpersonal Therapy, and Brief Dynamic Therapy, Second Edition) and has released five professional videos with APA illustrating her approach. Dr. Levenson received the Distinguished Contribution to Psychology as a Profession Award given by the California Psychological Association.   Volney Gay, PhD, is Professor Emeritus at Vanderbilt University and a Training and Supervising Analyst at the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute. He has published nine books on religion, psychiatry, and anthropology. Dr. Volney has won teaching awards from McMaster University and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine; the Heinz Hartmann Award from the New York Psychoanalytic Institute; the Outstanding Service Award from the American Psychoanalytic Association; and was named Distinguished Psychoanalytic Educator, International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education. His most recent book is American Slavery: Privileges and Pleasures (2021).   Jeffrey L. Binder, PhD, ABPP, is a clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral science at Vanderbilt University. He maintains a private practice of psychotherapy and clinical supervision. Dr. Binder has authored or coauthored over 45 articles and book chapters on psychotherapy practice, research, and supervision, as well as three books on a form of time-limited therapy developed with Hans Strupp: Psychotherapy in a New Key: A Guide to Time-Limited Dynamic Psychotherapy, Key Competencies in Brief Dynamic Psychotherapy: Clinical Practice Beyond the Manual, and Core Competencies in Brief Dynamic Psychotherapy. Dr. Binder is a fellow of the American Psychological Association.

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