On Becoming a Better Therapist: Skills to Be the Best You Can Be

Despite overall effectiveness of therapy, dropouts are a problem, many people do not benefit, and therapists significantly vary in effectiveness. In addition, many therapists do not know how effective or not they really are. Nine randomized clinical trials demonstrated that person-based outcome feedback offers a viable solution to these problems by identifying at-risk individuals before they drop out or realize a negative outcome while simultaneously raising the bar of therapist performance. In short, feedback increases positive outcomes.

This presentation provides a no-nonsense discussion of the skills required to get started using feedback to help individuals help you do good work--not sometime next month or even next week, but with the next person you treat. One of the tools you will learn is to replicate a feedback system that will easily give you the ability to see early warning signs of potential problems. This will allow you to identify how to enhance your therapeutic impact with those in therapy. Through the feedback that is attained, you will learn ways to have a healthier conversation that will deepen the collaborative understanding. This will intensify the individual’s resources to bring about greater change. You will also learn how you can use outcome data to improve your outcomes over the course of your career.

This Web Conference is designed to help clinicians:

1. Identify the problems that plague psychotherapy outcomes: dropouts, non-response, and therapist variability;
2. Ultilize a research validated early warning system to improve effectiveness by early identification of those who are not responding to treatment;
3. Explain methods and skills to elicit feedback about outcome to enable either new directions in therapy or to facilitate referral to another provider;
4. Describe methods and skills to elicit feedback about the alliance to prevent dropout and enhance engagement.

If you have any questions about this Web Conference or would like more information, please contact us here.

Continuing Education (CE) Information

1.5 CE credits will be provided by GoodTherapy.org for attending this web conference in its entirety.

GoodTherapy.org is also an Approved Education Provider by NAADAC, The Association for Addiction Professionals (provider #135463). Of the eight counselor skill groups ascribed to by NAADAC, this course is classified within counseling services.

GoodTherapy.org is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEPTM) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements.

GoodTherapy.org is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. GoodTherapy.org maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

GoodTherapy.org, SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0395. 

To receive CE credit hours for an archived event, you will need to complete a survey as well as a 12 or 15-question exam, verifying that you listened to or watched the event in its entirety. Archived CE events generally are considered "homestudy" by licensing boards.

Registration Information

Premium and Pro Membership with GoodTherapy includes access to this web conference at no additional cost, as well as other member benefits such as a profile listing in GoodTherapy's Therapist Directory. Not yet a member? Sign up for a Premium or Pro Membership, here.

Just want CE credits? Sign up for a monthly or annual CE Subscription with GoodTherapy to get unlimited access to our CE Program, including this event, other live CE web conferences, and hundreds of hours of homestudy courses.

Mental health professionals who are not members can attend this live web conference for $30.95 or access the homestudy recording for $15.50. Sign up here to purchase this CE course and earn a CE certificate.

If the event is canceled by GoodTherapy, registrants who purchased the event will be notified and the charge for the event will be refunded

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