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Articles tagged "deliberate practice".
11 articles
The Myth of Monolithic Experience: Navigating Intra-Cultural Assumptions through Deliberate Practice
Cultural matching between client and clinicians has long been discussed in psychotherapy as a strategy to enhance treatment engagement and therapeutic alliance (Cabral & Smith, 2011). Practitioners often assume that shared cultural background inherently improves therapeutic connection, reducing cultural barriers and enhancing understanding. Empirical evidence supports the notion that ethnic or language matching can improve […]
Joel Jin, PhD
April 5, 2026
Sentio’s Clinic-to-Classroom Method: Bridging Deliberate Practice and Clinical Training
Training effective psychotherapists requires more than just classroom instruction; it demands an integration of practical experience with theoretical learning (Vaz & Rousmaniere, 2022). Sentio University’s Clinic-to-Classroom method exemplifies this integration by bringing real clinical practice into the learning environment. This approach is grounded in the Deliberate Practice (DP) model, a framework originally developed in expertise […]
Tony Rousmaniere, Psy.D. + 1 more
March 26, 2025
Building Bridges: The SAP China Conference Successfully Conducted
From November 6 to 9, 2024, the Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy (SAP) China Conference, titled Counseling and Psychotherapy in Practice: New Perspectives on Therapist Skills and Development (心理咨询与治疗实践：治疗师技能与发展的新视野), was successfully conducted. The conference was organized by the SAP International Domain and its Chinese Member Engagement Committee, with Hubei Oriental Insight Mental Health Institute […]
Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy + 3 more
December 13, 2024
What Deliberate Practice Supervision Has to Offer Traditional Supervision: Nine Take-Home Messages
For the past year and a half, I have been sitting in on Supervision of Supervision (Sup-of-Sup) meetings led by Alex Vaz and Tony Rousmaniere as part of their one-year Deliberate Practice Supervision Residency Program at Sentio Counseling Center. Initially, I planned to attend just one or two online meetings but after the first meeting, […]
Hanna Levenson, Ph.D.
May 27, 2024
A Supervisor’s Deliberate Practice Journey
Call to adventure In March 2023, Hanna Levenson, one of my colleagues at the Wright Institute, invited Alex Vaz and Tony Rousmaniere, the dynamic duo of Sentio Counseling Center (SCC), to do a 6-hour training on deliberate practice and the Sentio Supervision Model (SSM) for our community. They were looking for volunteers to be in […]
MacKenzie Stuart, LMFT
April 7, 2024
Deliberate Practice Supervision Series from the Sentio Marriage and Family Therapy Program
In this introductory article we provide a brief overview of what Deliberate Practice is and why it matters for psychotherapists. We then present the Sentio Supervision Model, a 7-step Deliberate Practice supervision approach developed by the Sentio Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) program that helps trainers integrate comprehensive skill building into clinical supervision. What is […]
Alexandre Vaz, PhD + 1 more
March 22, 2024
The Quest for Evidence-based Training
“Evidence-Based” Training? Research is important in the scientific field of psychotherapy, where we like to think of ourselves as “scientist-practitioners” who provide “evidence-based practice” (Overholser, 2012). However, when it concerns our professional training, this research emphasis appears to be conveniently forgotten. Therapists tend to spend many hours of their career in professional training, not only […]
Katie Aafjes-van Doorn, Psy.D.
March 24, 2022
Deliberate Interleaving Practice in Psychotherapy Training
“Do that scale again.” “Do that fingering transition again.” “Let me hear that again.” Even if the scale was correct, it had to be done…again. As a novice musician, the word, “again,” became synonymous with repetitive practice. Practice for the sake of practice, because practice makes perfect. I (voice of 3rd author; true story) had […]
Patrick K. Love, B.S. + 2 more
August 20, 2017
Deliberate Practice for Early Career Psychotherapists
Domain Note: The Role of Deliberate Practice across the Professional Lifespan The Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy Education and Training Committee is excited to be providing a series of articles on the role of deliberate practice (DP) in the development of highly effective psychotherapists. The initial article (Love, Davis, & Callahan, 2016) focused on […]
Tony Rousmaniere, Psy.D.
October 28, 2016
Humility
“The humble man makes room for progress; the proud man believes he is already there.” Ed Parker (1983) In their series of articles, Tracey and colleagues (Tracey, Wampold, Goodyear, & Lichtenberg, 2015; Tracey, Wampold, Lichtenberg, & Goodyear, 2014) explore barriers psychotherapists face in developing expertise. Specifically, Tracey et al. (2014, 2015) noted that psychotherapists often (a) […]
Joshua N. Hook, Ph.D. + 3 more
March 20, 2016
Improving Expertise in Psychotherapy
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Terence J. G. Tracey, Ph.D., ABPP + 3 more
July 8, 2015