Testing a Deliberate Practice Workshop for Developing Appropriate Responsivity to Resistance Markers

Deliberate practice (DP) is an emerging training method for improving individual performance that may be worth adapting and testing for applicability to groups, given the prevalence of group training for continuing education. This study compared an adapted DP workshop to the same traditional, non-DP workshop for managing ambivalence and resistance. The same presenter delivered the workshops to 88 randomly assigned community psychotherapists. …