The Field Guide to Better Results

"Research shows that training in specific techniques and theories contributes little to effective psychotherapy outcomes. What are well-intentioned clinicians who want to improve their skills to do? Read The Field Guide to Better Results. This book offers readers a practical roadmap to making their sessions more successful and enjoyable while helping them grow as therapists (and as people). I highly recommend this book." - Paul J. Leslie, EdD, author of The Art of Creating a Magical Session: Key Elements for Transformative Psychotherapy

"One of the biggest questions facing practicing clinicians today is how to improve and to personalize psychological interventions based on the available research literature. This outstanding book will teach readers how to tackle this important task and how to develop their clinical skills further. It provides the necessary research basics as well as deliberate practice training examples to improve treatment options and make use of available monitoring tools. Comprehensive and fun to read, this volume helps to move the practice of psychological therapy forward." - Wolfgang Lutz, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Trier, Trier, Germany.

"This field guide offers a user-friendly path on how to engage in deliberate practice in order to achieve better treatment outcomes. The authors provide detailed exercises on how to become more effective psychotherapists. Kudos!" - Donald Meichenbaum, PhD, Research Director of The Melissa Institute for Violence Prevention and Treatment, Coral Gables, FL, United States

"An eminently original, engaging, and practical book that draws together the latest research findings to help therapists of all orientations improve their work. “Deliberate practice” is a major new innovation in the training and development of psychotherapists, and this field guide—written by leading figures in the psychotherapy world—provides unique, step-by-step guidance to applying its method and insights." - Mick Cooper, DPhil, Professor of Counselling Psychology, University of Roehampton, London, England

"This book has a wonderful combination of providing state-of-the-art scientific evidence on what makes therapists effective in understandable language, and hands-on exercises for clinicians to improve their effectiveness. It is truly unique in that sense!" - Kim de Jong, PhD, Senior Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology, Leiden University, the Netherlands