Deliberate Practice in Anti-Racist Psychology

This article will explore the application of deliberate practice in anti-racist psychology training and education. This article focuses on training the interpersonal dimension of an anti-racist psychology, specifically ways to broach racial concerns impacting the working alliance and understanding distress. Since deliberate practice emphasizes the behavioral rehearsal of observable skills, this framework complements traditional instructional strategies. The sequence of this article will follow this order: (a) a need for deliberate practice in anti-racist psychology; (b) an overview of deliberate practice and the science of expertise; (c) an outline of deliberate practice in broaching; (d) two exercises for the sample skills of cultural immediacy and structural responses; and (e) limitations and future directions of deliberate practice in anti-racist psychology.