EFFECTIVE PSYCHOTHERAPISTS
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Based on the book Effective Psychotherapists: Clinical Skills That Improve Client Outcomes, by William R. Miller, PhD and Theresa B. Moyers, PhD. This CE program awards 7 continuing education credits upon successful completion of the 48-question test. What is it that makes some therapists so much more effective than others, even when they are delivering the same evidence-based treatment? This instructive book identifies specific interpersonal skills and attitudes that are often overlooked in clinical training and that facilitate better client outcomes across a broad range of treatment methods and contexts. Reviewing 70 years of psychotherapy research, the preeminent authors show that empathy, acceptance, warmth, focus, and other characteristics of effective therapists are both measurable and teachable. Richly illustrated with annotated sample dialogues, the book gives practitioners and students a blueprint for learning, practicing, and self-monitoring these crucial clinical skills. To order this course in pen and paper or PDF format, copy and paste this link to your browser: https://tinyurl.com/mr3psc9s
Subject areas
This course counts toward the state boards and subject areas below.
Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling
Certified Master Social Worker
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Licensed Mental Health Counselor
Florida Board of Psychology
Limited License Psychologist
Psychologist
Florida Office of School Psychology
School Psychologist
Disclosure statements
At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:
• Explain how therapists with low levels of therapeutic skills can actually harm clients rather than merely be ineffective.
• Summarize how accurate empathy is a reliably measurable and learnable skill that is associated with better client outcomes.
• Demonstrate how nonjudgmental acceptance is communicated, in part, by what the therapist does not do: disapprove, criticize, disagree, label, warn, or shame.
• Identify three therapeutic approaches to facilitate positive change.
• Describe how hope and expectancy are associated with better outcomes.
• Demonstrate the “how” of offering information and advice so your clients will hear and consider it.
• List the evidence-based therapeutic interpersonal skills that should be taught early in the training of counselors and psychotherapists.