On Becoming a Better Therapist:
Skills to Be the Best You Can Be Presented by Barry Duncan, PsyD

Web Conference Description

Despite overall effectiveness of therapy, drop outs are a problem, many clients do not benefit, and therapists significantly vary in effectiveness. In addition, many therapists do not know how effective or not they really are. Nine randomized clinical trials demonstrated that client-based outcome feedback offers a viable solution to these problems by identifying at risk clients before they drop out or realize a negative outcome while simultaneously raising the bar of therapist performance. In short, client feedback increases positive outcomes.
 
This presentation provides a no nonsense discussion of the skills required to get started using feedback to help clients help you do good work--not sometime next month or even next week, but with your next client. One of the tools you will learn is to replicate a feedback system that will easily give you the ability to see early warning signs of potential problems. This will allow you to identify how to enhance your therapeutic impact with your clients. Through the client feedback that is attained, you will learn ways to have a healthier conversation that will deepen the collaborative understanding. This will intensify the client’s resources to bring greater change into their life. You will also learn how you can use outcome data to improve your outcomes over the course of your career.
 
This Web Conference is designed to help clinicians:

1) Identify the problems that plague psychotherapy outcomes: drop outs, client non-response, and therapist variability;
2) Ultilize a research validated early warning system to improve effectiveness by early identification of those clients who are not responding to treatment;
3) Explain methods and skills to elicit client feedback about outcome to enable either new directions in therapy or to facilitate referral to another provider;
4) Learn methods and skills to elicit client feedback about the alliance to prevent dropout and enhance client engagement.

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