When: October 25th, 4-6 PM (CET)
Price: Free
Hosts: Luca Rossi (Italy) and Elisabet Rosén (Sweden)
Platform: Zoom
Language: English
This is a workshop on doing Deliberate Practice peer-work, with a special focus on how to give effective feedback to one another.
Although traditional supervision has its benefits, research had shown that the effect of clinical supervision on therapy outcomes is highly unclear (Watkins, 2011), explaining less than 1 % of the variance in treatment outcomes in the best of cases. This could be due, in part, to client variables, but is also related to the therapist’s alliance and openness in supervision as well as the pedagogy of the supervisor (Rousmaniere, Swift, Babins- Wagner, Wipple, & Berzins, 2014).
Traditional supervision can often include theoretical discussion and theoretical feedback that can be hard to break down into actionable pieces: for example: “You need to be more empathic”. This is important, but doesn’t give clear guidance as to what exactly should be done differently. On the other hand, we might be given an exact phrase to say in therapy to our patients (e.g, “You should say: So what do you feel towards me right now”), making it too concrete and not allowing for the freedom needed to learn.
It is indeed very tempting to have long philosophical discussions about a client’s presenting problem, or why not have a methodological conversation on how to do it the right way based on your therapy-model? As the perfect dessert we can then scratch each others´ backs, and tell ourselves that we´re doing an excellent job, letting us feel good about ourselves and yet we are probably not learning anything. If we are in bad company we might even become too critical or belittle each other, and end up losing faith in ourselves and our way of working, and then get less effective in eliciting hope and expectancy in our patients.
In this workshop we want to prepare you for a more fruitful peer-supervision, to help you and your colleagues become better as therapists, while supervising each other, for the good of your patients… and yourselves :-)
We will learn the specific skills needed when giving each other effective feedback. We will then practice using these skills, while all the time improving our corrective feedback to make it brief, specific and well-balanced, positive and corrective all the time keeping it neither too theoretical, nor too concrete.