Learning empathy: deliberate practice vs. didactic teaching
Novice students who trained empathy through deliberate practice improved; students taught didactically did not.
Does an eight-week practice course improve the alliance?
A pilot RCT with CBT therapists found no improvement in patient-rated alliance after a peer-feedback deliberate practice course.
Study to watch: the DeeP trial
A large four-arm trial will test deliberate practice and structured feedback with 240 trainees and about 1,000 patients.
Responding to resistance: deliberate practice vs. a traditional workshop
Community therapists who rehearsed responses to resistance, with feedback, outperformed peers from a didactic workshop.
Watch an expert, then practice: does it build interpersonal skill?
Seeing model responses and then rehearsing your own improved facilitative interpersonal skills with new simulated clients.
A brief workshop on alliance and interpersonal skills: RCT
Video simulations, role-play and deliberate practice improved the specific relational skills they targeted.