Contributed by Barry Duncan
How Do You Know if You're a Culturally Responsive Therapist?
Measurement-Based Care with Diverse ClientsEvidence-based tools can help us embrace our clients' feedback, greatly increase our cultural competence. and improve therapy outcomes. Read more
Becoming a Supershrink: Three Steps to Professional Excellence
Getting Client Feedback Isn’t Always Easy, But It's a Necessary StepMost therapists, when asked, report checking in routinely for client feedback and knowing when to do so. But research has found this to be far from true. Read more
Improving Therapeutic Effectiveness: Moving Beyond Reliable Performance
How Can We Make Progress in Our Therapeutic Effectiveness?K. Anders Ericsson’s work on deliberate practice and client feedback explains studies showing that most of us grow continually in confidence over the course... Read more
Deliberate Practice: The First Step on the Path to Professional Excellence
One Team Finds that Deliberate Practice is the First Step to Becoming a Superior TherapistHow do the supershrinks do what they do? Are they made or born? Is it a matter of temperament or training? Have they discovered a secret unknown to other... Read more
What Therapists Want
It’s Certainly Not Money or Fame!A close-up look at a 20-year, multinational study that captures the heart of therapists’ aspirations—and perhaps the soul of our professional identity. Read more
Opening The Path
From What Is to What Can BeDown for the count, a therapist again discovers that even the most hopeless sessions can have a positive outcome if you stay with the process. Read more
How Being Bad Can Make You Better
Developing a Culture of Feedback in Your PracticeRegularly using a few simple feedback measures—plus paying close attention to your failures—can make you a better therapist. Read more
Barry L. Duncan
Barry L. Duncan, PsyD, is a therapist, researcher, trainer, and the CEO of Better Outcomes Now, the web and mobile application for PCOMS. He’s the author of 15 books and over 150 publications on PCOMS, the common factors in effective therapy, and client privilege.