Systemic Family Therapy Deliberate Practice

Systemic Family Therapy focuses on the present problem within the context of the person’s relationships with significant people in their lives and their social networks as opposed to a focus on the individual. In Systemic Family Therapy Deliberate Practice, Debra Miller 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. Miller guides the trainees through the application of specific systemic family therapy techniques and skills such as providing a systemic rationale for treatment, avoiding triangulation, and highlighting boundaries. Host Alexandre Vaz in turn provides feedback to Dr. Miller 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 systemic family 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.

Systemic Family Therapy focuses on the present problem within the context of the person’s relationships with significant people in their lives and their social networks as opposed to a focus on the individual. In Systemic Family Therapy Deliberate Practice, Debra Miller 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. Miller guides the trainees through the application of specific systemic family therapy techniques and skills such as providing a systemic rationale for treatment, avoiding triangulation, and highlighting boundaries. Host Alexandre Vaz in turn provides feedback to Dr. Miller 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 systemic family therapy skills. The program also includes a bonus material section which consists of short videos of deliberate practice prompts for viewer use.

Debra Miller, PhD, LMSW, is a licensed social worker and clinical researcher on the faculty of Michigan State University in East Lansing, MI, where she serves as the director of the Couple and Family Therapy Clinic training program. Her research is centered on supporting systemic family therapists with skill development, particularly as it relates to learning evidence-based approaches to treatment. Since 2012, she has served on the faculty of the Family Therapy Training Institute of Miami, providing training throughout the United States in the brief strategic family therapy model.

APA videos

Integrative Family Therapy With Couples
Patricia J. Pitta, PhD, ABPP

Attachment-Based Family Therapy
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Emotion-Focused Therapy in Deliberate Practice
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Multicultural Therapy Deliberate Practice
Jordan Harris, PhD

Motivational Interviewing Deliberate Practice 
Jennifer K. Manuel, PhD

Child and Adolescent Therapy Deliberate Practice
Jordan Bate, PhD