From Bad Therapy to Good Professional Development: What Do We Actually Know?
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From Bad Therapy to Good Professional Development: What Do We Actually Know?

Sat, Apr 1st, 2023
11:00am – 1:15pm US Eastern Time
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About the Event

Ask any professional what they value the most and becoming ever more effective at their work will top the list. This sentiment could not be more important given the high stakes of community safety and risk management that are associated with professional development. Unfortunately, the elements that combine to make a professional more effective are not necessarily what one might think.

This live, interactive webinar will examine professional development from many perspectives, including what research tells us about clinical supervision, coaching, attending trainings, and individualized attempts at self-improvement. It will also review research and present feedback from numerous professional trainers and supervisors about how individuals actually learn. Importantly, it will also explore implicit barriers to professional development in the workplace. Finally, it will offer resources and ideas for what trainers, professionals, supervisors, and other administrators can do to ensure more effective services.

Live Event
This live online event will be held as a Zoom Webinar. Attendees will have the option to interact through features such as the Chat and Q&A, but cameras and microphones will not be enabled.

Live Event Instructor

David S. Prescott, LICSW

David S. Prescott, LICSW

A mental health practitioner of 38 years, David Prescott is the Director of the Safer Society Continuing Education Center. He is the author and editor of 25 books in the areas of understanding and improving services to at-risk clients. He is best known for his work in the areas of understanding, assessing, and treating sexual violence and trauma. Mr. Prescott is the recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Contribution award from the Association for the Treatment and Prevention of Sexual Abuse (ATSA), the 2018 recipient of the National Adolescent Perpetration Network’s C. Henry Kempe Lifetime Achievement award, and the 2022 recipient of the Fay Honey Knopp Award from the New York State Alliance for the Prevention of Sexual Abuse and New York State ATSA. He also served as ATSA President in 2008-09. Mr. Prescott currently trains and lectures around the world. His published work has been translated into Japanese, Korean, German, French, Polish, and more. He has served on the editorial boards of four scholarly journals.

Target Audience

This live interactive webinar is intended for mental health professionals, including Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, MFT's and Addiction Professionals.

Learning Objectives

After taking this activity, you should be able to:

  1. 1 Explain self-assessment bias and how it can prevent professional development.
  2. 2 Describe a plan for “deliberate practice” in professional development.
  3. 3 Apply two or more immediate skills in supervision and coaching efforts for assisting others in professional development.

Brattland, H., Koksvik, J.M., Burkeland, O., Gråwe, R., Klöckner, C., Linaker, O., Ryum, T., Wampold, B., Lara-Cabrera, M., & Iversen, V. (2018). The effects of routine outcome monitoring (ROM) on therapy outcomes in the course of an implementation process. A randomized clinical trial. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 65, 641-652. DOI: 10.1037/cou0000286.

Brattland H, Koksvik JM, Burkeland O, Klöckner CA, Lara-Cabrera ML, Miller SD, Wampold B, Ryum T, Iversen VC. Does the working alliance mediate the effect of routine outcome monitoring (ROM) and alliance feedback on psychotherapy outcomes? A secondary analysis from a randomized clinical trial. J Couns Psychol. 2019 Mar;66(2):234-246. doi: 10.1037/cou0000320. Epub 2019 Jan 31. PMID: 30702322.

Houben, M., Van Den Noortgate, W., & Kuppens, P. (2015). The relation between short-term emotion dynamics and psychological well-being: A meta-analysis. Psychological bulletin, 141(4), 901.

Jacobsen, C. H., & Tanggaard, L. (2009). Beginning therapists’ experiences of what constitutes good and bad psychotherapy supervision. Nordic Psychology, 61(4), 59-84.

Kumari, N. (2011). Personal therapy as a mandatory requirement for counseling psychologists in training: A qualitative study of the impact of therapy on trainees’ personal and professional development. Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 24(3), 211-232.

Miller, S. D., Hubble, M. A., & Chow, D. L. (2020). Better results: Using deliberate practice to improve therapeutic effectiveness. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Press.

Miller, Scott & Hubble, Mark & Chow, Daryl & Wampold, Bruce. (2019). More confusion about deliberate practice? Not really. High Ability Studies. 30. 295-297. 10.1080/13598139.2020.1780004.

Prescott, D. S., Maeschalck, C., & Miller, S. D. (2017). Feedback-informed treatment in clinical practice: Reaching for excellence. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Willis, G. M., Prescott, D. S., & Levenson, J. S. (2018). Promoting therapist longevity: exploring sexual offending treatment providers’ experiences of workplace support. Journal of Sexual Aggression, 24, 311-325. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13552600.2018.1528794

Valla, B. & Prescott, D.S. (2019). Beyond best practice: How mental health services can be better. London: Routledge.

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Event Agenda

Agenda times are listed in US Eastern Time. That is 3 hours later than US Pacific Time. The event starts at 8:00am US Pacific Time.

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM • Introduction and overview • What research shows about clinical supervision, coaching, attending trainings, and individualized attempts at self-improvement. • The role of feedback from clients and others 12:00 PM – 12:15 PM Break 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM • What can trainers tell us about how people learn? • implicit barriers to professional development in the workplace • What can we do to get better? • Q&A and wrap-up

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