Promising, with puzzles still to solve: a commentary
A commentary on the supervision special issue raises four open questions for deliberate practice.
Interpersonal skills training for experienced therapists
A waitlist-controlled trial found modest gains, largest in alliance skills, and smaller effects than in studies with trainees.
Bringing deliberate practice into university training
A German master's program built deliberate practice into its courses; students found it helpful and demanding.
Learning empathy: deliberate practice vs. didactic teaching
Novice students who trained empathy through deliberate practice improved; students taught didactically did not.
Practicing inner skills: a pilot with therapist trainees
A six-week deliberate practice program on inner skills showed mixed but encouraging results.
Systematic review: deliberate practice and skill performance
Across early studies, deliberate practice groups outperformed controls in every RCT, but the evidence base is still thin.
What counts as deliberate practice? A systematic review
Only 3 of 20 studies matched the current expert definition of deliberate practice, and the evidence is too early to settle the question.
Rethinking supervision: the case for deliberate practice
The introduction to a special issue on bringing deliberate practice into clinical supervision.
Deliberate practice supervision for behavioral activation: a case study
How the core elements of deliberate practice look in real supervision of a therapist learning behavioral activation for depression.
The Sentio Supervision Model in action
Outcome monitoring, therapy recordings and deliberate practice combined in weekly supervision of one case.
Deliberate practice in group supervision
A case illustration of keeping every group member engaged through structured skill-building.
Challenge and support in deliberate practice supervision
A step-by-step look at how a supervisor scaffolds an experienced therapist's practice.
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.
A scoping review of deliberate practice in therapy training
The first scoping review of the field: promising comparisons with didactic training, and a field still in its infancy.
Does time spent learning predict outcomes? A replication
In this replication, therapists' self-reported learning time was not related to their clients' outcomes.
Responding to resistance: deliberate practice vs. a traditional workshop
Community therapists who rehearsed responses to resistance, with feedback, outperformed peers from a didactic workshop.
Rolling with resistance: what clients said after the training
A follow-up analysis of client language found less resistant talk with therapists trained through deliberate practice.
Practicing immediacy with doctoral trainees
A multiple case study of deliberate practice for one of the hardest relational skills: talking about the here-and-now relationship.
What do the most effective therapists do differently?
Experience and credentials didn't predict client outcomes. Time spent deliberately working on skills did.