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Effective Psychotherapists

Clinical Skills That Improve Client Outcomes

10 CE Hours
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About the Course

This instructive book identifies specific interpersonal skills and attitudes—often overlooked in clinical training—that facilitate better client outcomes across a broad range of treatment methods and contexts. Reviewing 70 years of psychotherapy research, the preeminent authors show that empathy, acceptance, warmth, focus, and other characteristics of effective therapists are both measurable and teachable.

This course is based on the book, Effective Psychotherapists Clinical Skills That Improve Client Outcomes created by William R. Miller, PhD. and Theresa B. Moyers, PhD. in 2021.

Publication Details

Publication Date: First Edition Jan 2021

Course Material Authors

Course Material Authors authored the material only, and were not involved in creating this CE course. They are identified here for your own evaluation of the relevancy of the material this course is based on.

William R. Miller, PhD.
Dr. Miller is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of New Mexico. Fundamentally interested in the psychology of change, he is a cofounder of motivational interviewing (MI) and has focused particularly on developing and testing more effective treatments for people with alcohol and drug problems. Dr. Miller has published over 400 scientific articles and chapters and 60 books.
Theresa B. Moyers, PhD.
Theresa B. Moyers, PhD, is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of New Mexico, where she conducts research on treatments for addictive behaviors, with a focus on MI. Dr. Moyers has published more than 35 peer-reviewed articles and has presented on MI and addictions treatment in 16 countries.

Target Audience

Counselors, marriage and family therapists, psychologists and social workers. This course is appropriate for all levels of knowledge.

Learning Objectives

After taking this course, you should be able to:

  1. 1 Identify two therapist skills that improve client outcomes.
  2. 2 Define the term "working alliance".
  3. 3 Differentiate between trait empahty and accurate empathy.
  4. 4 Give 2 examples of positive regard in therapy sessions.
  5. 5 Describe 2 client attributes that improve therapy outcomes.
  6. 6 Differentiate between coaching and supervising.

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There is no commercial support for this distance-learning course.

$72 + materials
Materials are available for free from our library, or may be purchased separately for $32.00 from Amazon or Guilford Press.
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Course Details

10 CE Hours
Book
Course 103342

Related Topics

Clinical Skills Therapeutic Relationship

Availability

This course is available until Sep 26th, 2033.

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