Using Deliberate Practice to Improve Psychotherapy Results with Dr. Scott Miller
Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast
David J Puder
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2023
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Miller’s first appearance on the Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Podcast was in episode 077, “Getting Better Results from your Patients as a Psychotherapist,” during which we discussed his book, Better Results. We explored the methodology behind improving outcomes in therapy through targeted development of what Dr. Miller has dubbed the Common Factors, which include therapy structure, hope and expectancy, working alliance, client factors, and therapist factors. In this episode, Dr. Miller returns to expand upon our prior conversation with a focus on how therapists can use deliberate practice to improve their efficacy. We discuss Dr. Miller’s new book, The Field Guide to Better Results, a companion to Better Results, which was recently published in May, 2023.
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| 0:00.0 | We'll come back to the podcast. I am joined today by Dr. Scott Miller. He is a PhD therapist. |
| 0:23.7 | He is someone who is on the podcast for an earlier episode talking about his book Better Results. |
| 0:31.5 | May 23rd, he has a new book coming out, The Field Guide to Better Results. You can pre-order this |
| 0:36.8 | on Amazon and on the APA website. And I'm excited to have you come back to further explore your life, |
| 0:45.1 | work, and things that you're finding out. It's been a couple years since I had you on. And so yeah, |
| 0:52.7 | just to kind of start started up, I was thinking we could talk about how you started. |
| 0:59.6 | And I was listening to some prior interviews that you had and you were talking about how you |
| 1:04.7 | were initially into brief psychotherapy. And there was this moment where you invited some |
| 1:11.5 | researchers to come out and study what you guys were doing. Do you want to tell that story |
| 1:17.7 | is kind of like a sure and thanks for having me here and also plugging my books The Field Guide |
| 1:24.0 | is actually a follow-up and a companion volume to the book Better Results. We dig into the elements |
| 1:31.2 | and factors that have influence on outcome of psychological care in much greater detail. We're |
| 1:36.7 | very lucky to score the biggest names in terms of research in the field in the various domains, |
| 1:44.0 | things like the relationship, client factors, hope and expectancy factors, structure and focus |
| 1:50.6 | in therapy. So I feel really very fortunate. And like many projects, that particular book, |
| 1:58.4 | the new one that is, we knew we were going to write it as we were finishing up the other book, |
| 2:03.6 | because there was just so much that was missing that we didn't know. And the same thing has happened |
| 2:08.9 | with this one. We feel like this is a real journey trying to understand how can we help |
| 2:14.0 | therapists improve their results. And we find therapists very hungry for that. And as a beginning |
| 2:22.5 | psychologist 35 years ago, having moved from sunny southern California to Milwaukee to work with |
| 2:29.7 | two very gifted and well-known clinicians in Suburgan, Steve D'Shaeser, that was still at the forefront |
| 2:36.0 | of my mind. I was trying to puzzle out how could I be more effective. And I think my interest in |
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