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Here you can download slides or handouts from presentations delivered by the founders and associates of ISTC. Feel free to copy and distribute this material, use it in classroom or other educational settings. We only ask that the materials be reproduced in whole and unaltered.

Presenter	File type	Workshop title and Description
Duncan	.PDF	Barry's Networker Slides: On Becoming A Better Therapist Barry's Standard Handouts
Miller	.PDF	Supershrink: Learning from the Field's Most Effective Practitioners These handouts accompany the upcoming Psychotherapy Networker Telecourse. Please click on the link to download the .zip file containing the slides and other course related material.
Miller & Duncan	.PDF	How to Improve Your Effectiveness by 65% Without Hardly Trying Research has demonstrated that using client based outcome feedback increases effectiveness by an incredible 65%. Therapists do not need to know ahead of time what approach to use as much as whether the current relationship is a good fit and providing benefit. This workshop argues for “practice based evidence” and suggests a simple, straightforward way that therapists of any theoretical preference can elicit clients’ “real time” feedback to inform and modify their work—not only to improve and demonstrate effectiveness, but also to finally give clients the voice they deserve.
Duncan	.PDF	Becoming Client Directed This presentation breakdowns the skills of Client-Directed work into three skill modules: “Eliciting Heroic Stories," “Listening for a Change,” and “Reliance on the Alliance.”
Duncan & Miller	.PDF	*The Heroic Client: Translating What Works* Research document the key roles that the client and therapeutic relationship play in successful treatment. In spite of the overwhelming empirical support for these factors, the implications for day-to-day clinical work can remain obscure. This presentation translates the data into guidelines for practice; you’ll explore how to provide services that not only harvest client strengths, but are also tailored to fit client’s relational preferences and goals.
Wampold	.PDF	What Works in Therapy: Empirical Foundations Recent trends in mental health and substance abuse services have emphasized treatment methods to the exclusion of other factors responsible for positive outcome. Drawing upon extensive meta-analysis of outcome research, this presentation examines the most potent elements of change and shows the contribution of technique to be small relative to other more powerful ingredients that are common to all models.
Sparks	.PDF	Families, Children, and Change: What Works? “What works” in psychotherapy is based on individual/adult models of change. But what about kids and families? Not surprisingly, this work sometimes looks a bit messier than one-adult therapy, with parents, grandparents, siblings, and even friends getting into the act. This workshop is about adapting client-directed principles to work with children and families. It is also about believing in the courage and resourcefulness of young people, even in the face of daunting dilemmas. Participants will learn how to engage, amplify, and utilize children’s and family members’ unique perspectives and resources to enhance outcome.
Duncan & Sparks	.PDF	The Ethics and Science of Medicating Children Prescriptions for psychiatric drugs to children and adolescents have skyrocketed. Recognizing that most mental health professionals do not have the time, and sometimes feel ill equipped, to explore the controversy regarding pharmacological treatment of children, this presentation critically examines the widespread use of antidepressants and stimulants and argues for untainted science and balanced information to inform clinical decisions.
Clark	.PDF	What Works in Criminal Justice Learn "what works" in criminal justice from one of the leading thinkers and trainers in the United States. A groundbreaking review of the research and application of empirical findings to the field of criminal justice.