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What is the Real Source of Effectiveness in Smoking Cessation Treatment? New Research on Feedback Informed Treatment
When it rains, it pours! Growing interest in FIT is leading to the publication of research articles on its application in different contexts — an article on using the ORS and SRS in smoking cessation treatment, another a long-awaited article on the validity and reliability of the Group Session Rating Scale, and finally, a piece — read more
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An Easy Way to Improve Our Schools (and Psychotherapy)
There is this article that appeared a while ago in the Atlantic Monthly that stuck with me. In it, Amanda Ripley detailed a simple and straightforward method for improving the performance of the public schools: have kids grade teachers. What kind of grades you ask? Not those on standardized achievement tests, and certainly not measures of — read more
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The Road to Clinical Excellence is Paved with Practice, Mistakes, & Hard Work
Last week, I received an email from friend and ICCE member David Claud. I’ve known Dave for the better part of a decade, having met–I believe–at a Ericksonian conference in Florida where he lives and works. He and the crew at the Center for Family Service in Palm Beach County figure prominently in the history… — read more
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International "Achieving Clinical Excellence" Conference
Mark your calendars! The International Center for Clinical Excellence is pleased to announce the “Achieving Clinical Excellence” (ACE) conference to be held at the Westin Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri on October 20-22nd, 2010. K. Anders Erickson, Ph.D., the editor of The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance and recognized “expert on experts,” will keynote… — read more
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Superior Performance as a Psychotherapist: First Steps
So what is the first step to improving your performance? Simply put, knowing your baseline. Whatever the endeavor, you have to keep score. All great performers do. As a result, the performance in most fields has been improving steadily over the last 100 years. Consider, for instance, the Olympics. Over the last century, the best… — read more