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Pre-Conference Workshop
Using Purposeful and Deliberate Practice to Improve Your Forensic Practice
PRESENTER: Dr. Anita McGregor
DATE: June 17, 2024
TIME: 1:30pm - 5pm
CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS: 3.5 credits
COST: $150 CAD (includes 1 catered coffee break; lunch NOT included)
DESCRIPTION:
Research indicates that our skills as psychologists (and by extension, most forensic practitioners), tends to decline with time (see Goldberg 2016). Deliberate practice (DP) is the emerging practice (based on research by Anders Ericsson on musicians and high level athletes) on exploring how structured training can not only prevent the decline of skills over time, but also can improve them. Essentially, deliberate practice is “the individualized training activities specially designed by a coach or teacher to improve specific aspects of an individual's performance through repetition and successive refinement” (Ericsson & Lehmann, 1996).
This workshop is intended for practitioners who are interested in understanding how DP has found its way into psychologist training, in learning how the fundamental skills in DP are consistent with developing and honing skills, and in a more practical sense, learning strategies to identify specific skills for improvement.
DP can be used for the skills associated with assessment and treatment; this workshop will have a special focus on forensic skill development in those practices. Participants will engage in both lecture-style learning, as well as exercises to hone in on their own personalized learning goals. A number of strategies will be reviewed and practiced, with the goal of the workshop being that participants can begin to develop their own deliberate practice regimen.
While this workshop is intended for participants who have not yet been exposed to deliberate practice strategies, those already working within the DP framework may benefit from additional DP strategies and discussion.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Understanding of the concepts of naïve, purposeful and deliberate practice. Review of how the research into the deliberate practice field has been brought to training in psychology and psychological skills.
Explanation and strategies for implementing the four key steps in deliberate practice.
Description, demonstration and practice of several DP skills and activities (provision of handouts of the skills/activities). The activities will focus on relevant forensic skill development.
Discussions on how to realistically implement deliberate practice into personal learning goals/supervision.