Child and Adolescent Therapy Deliberate Practice

Child and adolescent therapy deals with the behavior, adjustment, and growth of individuals from birth through adolescence, as well as with the treatment of their behavioral, mental, and emotional disorders. In Child and Adolescent Therapy Deliberate Practice, Dr. Jordan Bate supervises a series of role-playing scenarios in which two trainees take turns acting as client and therapist in exercises to improve their clinical practice.

Dr. Bate guides the trainees through the application of specific child and adolescent therapy techniques and skills such as naming feelings, praise and encouragement and elaborating play. Host Alexandre Vaz in turn provides feedback to Dr. Bate and the trainees on their use of deliberate practice in these exercises. This useful demonstration is framed by an informative discussion with the host about how deliberate practice is used in learning and improving child and adolescent therapy skills. The program also includes a bonus material section which consists of short videos of deliberate practice prompts for viewer use.

The Deliberate Practice Video Series presents various renowned psychologists and their trainees performing experiential exercises to learn and improve clinical skills. Deliberate practice is a rigorous training method that involves repeated behavioral rehearsal and simulation-based learning to improve therapy techniques. Designed for clinical training and continuing education, this video series will provide a tool for viewers to observe and apply deliberate practice to teaching their students or to improve their own performance. This video series stands alone but works well for training in conjunction with the Essentials of Deliberate Practice Book Series. Each video will center around a brief interview with a guest expert on how deliberate practice is done within the guest expert’s particular approach to psychotherapy followed by the guest expert and their students demonstrating several deliberate practice exercises.

Child and adolescent therapy deals with the behavior, adjustment, and growth of individuals from birth through adolescence, as well as with the treatment of their behavioral, mental, and emotional disorders. In Child and Adolescent Therapy Deliberate Practice, Jordan Bate supervises a series of role-playing scenarios in which two trainees take turns acting as client and therapist in exercises to improve their clinical practice. Dr. Bate guides the trainees through the application of specific child and adolescent therapy techniques and skills such as naming feelings, praise and encouragement and elaborating play. Host Alexandre Vaz in turn provides feedback to Dr. Bate and the trainees on their use of deliberate practice in these exercises. This useful demonstration is framed by an informative discussion with the host about how deliberate practice is used in learning and improving child and adolescent therapy skills. The program also includes a bonus material section which consists of short videos of deliberate practice prompts for viewer use.

Jordan Bate, PhD, is assistant professor of psychology at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology at Yeshiva University. She teaches family and child psychotherapy courses, coleads the psychodynamic psychotherapy practicum, and runs the Attachment & Psychotherapy Process Research Lab. Her research centers on understanding therapeutic processes through attachment theory and on the effectiveness of clinical training, including deliberate practice. Dr. Bate is a trainer and supervisor in mentalization-based treatment for children (MBT-C) and president of Section 2 (Childhood and Adolescence) of APA Division 39 (Psychoanalysis). She maintains a private practice in Manhattan, New York working with patients across the lifespan.

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