Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development Podcast by Daryl Chow, Ph.D.
Welcome to Frontiers Radio! A podcast for psychotherapists who value deep learning and individualized development that translates to better results with the people you aspire to improve. On the show, you will acquire 1. Cutting edge knowledge that pushes beyond the edge of your development. 2. Deliberate practice principles that are pulled together from the studies of expertise and expert performance in a variety of professional fields, including cognitive sciences about how we learn, behavioral economics, aesthetic arts, social, counselling and clinical psychology and 3. Latest updates and relevant tips from the front-lines of psychotherapy research. darylchow.substack.com
Episodes
Here’s the video version: https://youtu.be/wcU7ch-MFW0
This is a Q&A video and podcast series based on a question from a therapist in Glasgow, Scotland.
I hope this email finds you well.
I'm not sure whether this will get to you, but wanted to reach out as I have been feeling in a bit of a crisis with my practice as psychotherapist. And have been reading your book 'First Kiss'
To put it bluntly - there is too much choice! I am constan...
Frontiers Radio podcast is back!
Here’s the video version:
This is a Q&A video based on a question from a therapist in Montreal: "When Do You Get Time to Read?"
I just wanted to say once again that I really appreciate your newsletter. I look forward to reading it every week. This week, I especially liked the comment on the importance of giving more attention to the conversational nature of psychotherapy in our training. I also liked...
n this week's tip, I'd talk about how we can specifically listen for changes between sessions, and why measuring a person's wellbeing matters more than a symptom-specific measure.
If you have missed the previous videos on how to improve working alliance and being outcome informed, here are links:
In this week's Therapy Tip of the Week #7 (TTW), we talk about how to use outcome monitoring tools, not as an assessment tool, but as a conversational tool.
If you have missed the previous videos on how to improve working alliance, here are links:
1. Seek to be Dis-confirmed
2. The Devil is the Details Between Sessions
3. How to Elicit Nuanced Feedback
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00:00: Introduc...
In Therapy Tip of the Week #6, we continue on the topic of improving working alliance. Here's my recommendation, when seeking for feedback, avoid talking about... you!
If you have missed the previous videos on how to improve working alliance, here are links:
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00:00: Introduction
01:00: Using Depersonalised language
01:42: What Feedback is Not
02:02: Fee...
"Every impactful person brings to you themselves and not needing to proof ‘how impactful I am’, ‘how smart I am’, and ‘how needed I am.’" ~ Sr Joan Chittister.
If the therapy room is a vessel, it needs a scaffold in order for you to create a healing environment so as to help the person who is in distress.
But how do you structure a therapeutic session so that it is impact...
Dissonance can be a powerful ingredient for learning. How do we challenge our intuition in order to listen to our client's unspokens in order to foster a deeper connection with them?
In this video, I recommend an exercise that I use called the "Rate and Predict," to help me open up the conversation in therapy.
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As psychotherapists, it's easy to get lost in our heads. Our pet theories end up dominating and preventing us from being in touch with the person in front of us.
In this Therapy Tip of the Week, I'd talk about how psychotherapists can employ principles of embodied cognition—the idea of embodiment as a way of thinking—to help you deepen your empathic understanding of your clients, especially in stuck situations.
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Understanding the current season you are in helps you figure out where you are at, in order to know where you need to go. Appreciating the seasonality of your inner and outer life provides you a navigational guide as to where you need to nurture your nature. In this video, I provide a way to open a conversational doorway about this with your client, so as to provide focus and...
In this series on Therapy Tip of the Week, we'll provide psychologists, counsellors and psychotherapists one practical tip in each episode.
My idea of giving you this is not so much as to prescribe to you what you should be doing, but to describe possibilities, to give you ideas that can inspire you to create your own ideas in the practice of psychotherapy. My hopes of doing this is that it may widen the palette of possibiliti...
Time Stamps: Introduction (0:00)
Coaching fo...
Cumulative evidence in psychotherapy suggests that we not only do not improve with experience, our typical professional development efforts by attending workshops, and engaging in clinical supervision do not lead to better performance. T...
In this exclusive episode #10 on Frontiers Radio, we have a special guest, Dr. Scott Miller. We talked about several luminary figures who shaped and influenced his life, pivotal turning points, the writing process and his thoughts around the future of psychotherapy.
Time Stamps
Intro (00:00)
People who shaped Scott's life (05:30)
Lynn Johnson and Hal Miller (07:11)
Michael Lambert (15:36)
On Writing (18:24)
Impact of changing tra...
I believe one of the most critical things you can do is to create a personalised learning system (PLS).
Though the payoff is not immediate, but like growing a seed, the benefit is tremendous, especially if you value personal and professional development.
In this episode of Frontiers Radio, I take you down a road trip of my note-taking system, and why, after over 10 years, I'm now making a switch to an app call Obsid...
In the 1950s, A fairly unusual be-spectacled and slender Lieutenant Gilbert Daniels was tasked to solve one of the biggest problems in the US Air Force: Plane crashes.
What he unravelled in the process holds a unique lesson for psychotherapists, and why we have been failing to implement and scale "evidence-based" practices as we try to fit the "average person" instead of the individual.
This is a public episode...
We pay tribute to K. Anders Ericsson in today's episode.
He is known by many to be "the expert on expertise." His work, along with his colleagues had a profound impact on a wide array of professional domains such as sports, music, chess, and more recently in the field of psychotherapy. His four decades worth of research also informed the hugely popular book by Malcolm Gladwell, Outlier. (Though the "10,000hr" rule thing got misrep...
I found myself telling this story to me kids some nights ago. I believe it's worth retelling here, especially in the current anxious climate surrounding the coronavirus.
After the story, I say a few words about why we need to express our heartfelt thanks to people behind the scenes in our healthcare.
Plus, why we must support our local communities and businesses when this comes to pass.
And finally,...
"I spent half of my life lost in an education system that pushed for results and performance... and failed.. Even when I Began to perform well in undergrad and so on, I wasn't learning; I was performing."
In today's episode, we draw a distinction between "performing" and "learning," and what we can do to become deep learners.
For a video version of this episode, go to https://youtu.be/APLjlZJa3B0
No manufacturing company in the US and UK was initially willing to license his vacuum cleaner.
James Dyson was laughed at for designing a transparent vacuum cleaner that showed all the filth it sucked up.
Today, Dyson the company returns over $500 million in annual profits and employs nearly seven thousand people worldwide. Had the founder given up on the “bagless” vacuum cleaner idea, Dyson would be just another name.
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