Deliberate practice – Pluralistic Practice

‘Therapeutic Expertise’? Deliberately Curious From a Pluralistic Perspective!

September 20, 2023 Deliberate practice Research Training No Comments

Kerry-Jayne Lambert, University of Roehampton (lambertk@roehampton.ac.uk) Deliberate practice (DP) is argued to be at the ‘cutting edge’ of counselling and psychotherapy. It is a set of training methods aimed to support therapists to improve their clinical performance by isolating and focusing on specific skill subsets. This is considered similar to…

Being a Pluralistic Supervisor: A Personal Reflection

July 24, 2023 Co-production Deliberate practice Supervision Training No Comments

Darren Hopgood, Counsellor and supervisor in private practice, Darren Hopgood Counselling I have been a pluralistic counsellor for five years now, so not long. I have been a supervisor for just over a year, so not long at all. This is a short reflection on some things I have learned…

International Conference on Pluralistic Counselling and Psychotherapy Prize Winners

October 20, 2022 Arts therapies Children Co-production Cultural resources Deliberate practice Goals Information and Updates Preferences Research Young people 2 Comments

We are delighted to announce our conference prize winners from the last two years. You can find more information on each of the projects and links to watch the presentations below. You can watch all of the recordings from the conference here. Congratulations to all of our prize winners! Senior…

Deliberate Practice (and Why it Matters to Pluralistic Therapy)

November 7, 2019 Deliberate practice Practice Training 3 Comments

Alexander Vaz (ISPA-University Institute, Portugal) Deliberate Practice (DP) is a training philosophy that represents one of the most evidence-based methods we know of to improve ‘performance’ in an effective and reliable manner. Decades of research have demonstrated that lengthy engagement in DP is associated with expert performance across a variety…

Developing Practitioner Confidence: Observations from Teaching Pluralism

November 6, 2019 Deliberate practice Training No Comments

Marcella Finnerty, IICP College, Dublin As an institution, IICP College, has always been integrative, and more recently pluralistic, in its teaching approach. But we have struggled with how and when to present such ideas to our students. By the time we introduce pluralistic counselling and psychotherapy, our students are already…