Validation de l’Échelle de compétence du thérapeute auprès de clients atteints du trouble d’anxiété généralisée.

The objective of this study is to validate the TCS, in particular by verifying its factorial structure, then evaluating its psychometric properties (its convergent and predictive validity) within a sample of 70 participants with general anxiety disorder. (1) The TCS and its two sub-scales (Technical skills or Savoir-faire, and Interpersonal skills, or Savoir-être) present a good internal coherence and satisfactory test-retest fidelity; (2) the TCS would be more strongly linked to a measure of the characteristics of the therapist than of measurements of therapeutic alliance, client motivation and treatment credibility; and (3) the TCS will prove to have predictive validity. Participants completed assessments of symptoms before and after 14 treatment sessions, and a measurement of common factors (including TCS) following sessions 3 and 11. Twelve of the 20 items were removed from the preliminary version of the TCS to obtain a factorial structure corresponding to the concept of the tool. The final eight-item version shows good internal coherence (a = 0.87) and adequate temporal stability (r = 0.51, p
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research