Deliberate Practice in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy

Deliberate practice exercises help trainees achieve competence in essential accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy skills.

List of contents

Series Preface
Tony Rousmaniere and Alexandre Vaz
Acknowledgments
Part I. Overview and Instructions
Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview of Deliberate Practice and Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy
Chapter 2. Instructions for the Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy Deliberate Practice Exercises
Part II. Deliberate Practice Exercises for Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy Skills
Exercises for Beginner Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy Skills
Exercise 1. Moment-to-Moment Tracking
Exercise 2. Exploring and Staying with Physical Experience
Exercise 3. Undoing Aloneness
Exercise 4. Affirming
Exercises for Intermediate Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy Skills
Exercise 5. Self-Involving Self-Disclosure
Exercise 6. Self-Revealing Self-Disclosure
Exercise 7. Metaprocessing
Exercises for Advanced Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy Skills
Exercise 8. Working With Anxiety
Exercise 9. Affirmative Work With Defenses
Exercise 10. Initiating Portrayals
Exercise 11. Privileging Transformance Strivings
Exercise 12. Metatherapeutic Processing
Comprehensive Exercises
Exercise 13. Annotated Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy Practice Session Transcript
Exercise 14. Mock Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy Sessions
Part III. Strategies for Enhancing the Deliberate Practice Exercises
Chapter 3. How to Get the Most Out of Deliberate Practice: Additional Guidance for Trainers and Trainees
Appendix A. Difficulty Assessments and Adjustments
Appendix B. Deliberate Practice Diary Form
Appendix C. Sample Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy Syllabus With Embedded Deliberate Practice Exercises
References
Index
About the Authors

About the author

Natasha Prenn, LCSW, is senior faculty at the AEDP Institute. She sees individuals and couples for therapy and clinicians for accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy supervision in addition to teaching, presenting workshops, and writing. She pioneered the AEDP essential skills and advanced skills courses. She is coauthor of Supervision Essentials for Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy. Dr. Prenn is a founding editor of Transformance: The AEDP Journal. She has presented numerous workshops and trainings and written several book chapters and articles focused on the nuts and bolts of what to actually say and do in AEDP sessions.

Hanna Levenson, PhD, is professor emerita at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, California. She also maintains a private practice in Oakland where she sees individuals and couples for therapy and professionals for consultation/supervision. Dr. Levenson has specialized in brief dynamic therapy and supervision for over 40 years. She has authored over 85 professional papers and multiple books, including Deliberate Practice in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Deliberate Practice in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, and has released five professional videos with APA illustrating her approaches. Dr. Levenson received the Distinguished Contribution to Psychology as a Profession Award given by the California Psychological Association.
  Alexandre Vaz, PhD, is director of training at the Sentio Marriage and Family Therapy graduate program and Sentio Counseling Center. He has authored many books on deliberate practice and psychotherapy training and is coeditor of the book series The Essentials of Deliberate Practice (APA Books). Dr. Vaz has held multiple committee roles for the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration (SEPI) and the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR). He is founder and host of “Psychotherapy Expert Talks,” an acclaimed interview series with distinguished psychotherapists and researchers.

Tony Rousmaniere, PsyD, is program director of the Sentio Marriage and Family Therapy graduate program, and executive director of the Sentio Counseling Center. He has authored many books on deliberate practice and psychotherapy training and is coeditor of the book series The Essentials of Deliberate Practice (APA Books). In 2017, Dr. Rousmaniere published the widely cited article in The Atlantic Monthly, “What Your Therapist Doesn’t Know.” Dr. Rousmaniere supports the open-data movement and publishes clinical outcome data at drtonyr.com. He is president of Division 29 of APA.

Product details

• Authors: Hanna Levenson, Natasha C N Prenn, Natasha C. N. Levenson Prenn, Tony Rousmaniere, Alexandre Vaz
• Publisher: American psychological assn
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 01.06.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9781433842900
• ISBN: 978-1-4338-4290-0
• No. of pages: 248
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology