Measuring Psychotherapy Supervisor Development

Autor:	C. Edward Watkins, Jack Hayes, Ron Nieberding Ma, Lawrence J. Schneider
Rok vydání:	1995
Předmět:	Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Supervisor Psychotherapist Process (engineering) Scale (social sciences) Scale development Psychology Reliability (statistics) Education
Zdroj:	The Clinical Supervisor. 13:77-90
ISSN:	1545-231X 0732-5223
DOI:	10.1300/j001v13n01_06
Popis:	As a topic of inquiry, psychotherapy supervisor development (i.e., the process of growth that supervisors experience in actually becoming a "supervisor") has received limited research attention. The absence of a theory-driven instrument, designed to assess psychotherapy supervisor development, can be seen as one reason for this. In this paper, we describe an initial effort to generate and validate a theory-driven scale-the Psychotherapy Supervisor Development Scale (PSDS)- that could be used to assess supervisor development. The results of our study led to an 18-item scale (a) that provided a total score (but no subscale scores) reflecting "psychotherapy supervisor development," (b) that had good (alpha) reliability (.90), and (c) that discriminated between supervisors at different levels of experience. While further validation work on the PSDS is needed, our initial findings suggest that the scale possessed adequate (alpha) reliability, (content) validity, and could be used for research purposes (in stud...
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