Instructions for Deliberate Practice Exercises
Below are free DP exercise instructions and videos you and your trainees can use for ongoing skills training:
Additional DP training resources:
For a series focused on Multicultural Orientation training, click here.
For a series focused on therapist’s inner skills training, click here.
For demonstrations of DP training, check the Learn Psychotherapy Podcast and Practice Time.
Video Prompts for Deliberate Practice
Suicidal Woman
Client unsure therapy is helping
Anxious Woman
Abused Woman
Ambivalent man referred for drinking problem
Flirty Woman
For the next video, we recommend using these exercise instructions: Setting Appropriate Therapy Boundaries
Teletherapy Prompts
Below are videos with teletherapy-related clinical challenges.
Deliberate Practice for Multicultural Orientation (MCO) Skills
Click here to visit our page with videos and DP exercises for Multicultural Orientation skills.
The MCO framework (Owen et al., 2011; Owen) explores how “the cultural worldviews, values, and beliefs of the client and the therapist interact and influence one another to co-create a relational experience that is in the spirit of healing” (Davis et al., 2018, p. 90).