What competencies should therapists acquire and how should they acquire them?

Castonguay, Louis; Boswell, James F.; Caspar, Franz; Friedlander, Myrna L.; Gómez, Beatriz; Hayes, Adele M.; Grosse Holtforth, Martin; Messer, Stanley B.; Newman, Michelle G.; Strauss, Bernhard M. (2023). What competencies should therapists acquire and how should they acquire them? In: Castonguay, L. G.; Hill, C. E. (eds.) Becoming better psychotherapists: Advancing training and supervision (pp. 13-29). Washington: American Psychological Association 10.1037/0000364-002

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Arguably, the primary goal of training in psychotherapy is to help trainees develop and/or improve competencies. Competencies can be viewed as knowledge, skills, and attitudes that are components of acceptable clinical performance or, in the absence of clear empirical definition, of what is assumed to be acceptable performance. This chapter presents a landscape of current training practices with regard to competencies that are being taught and methods that are used to do so. Together, it represents the views and praxes associated with different approaches (behavioral change and insight-oriented), various parts of the world (Europe, Latin America, and North America), and a wide range of training experiences (with PhD and PsyD students as well as with experienced therapists in both private practice and clinical trials). The goal was to describe the current state in terms of what competencies are required for practicing clinicians and what methods are used to train students.

Item Type:	Book Section (Book Chapter)
Division/Institute:	07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy 07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology
UniBE Contributor:	Caspar, Franz, Grosse Holtforth, Martin
Subjects:	600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health 100 Philosophy > 150 Psychology
ISBN:	9781433841118
Publisher:	American Psychological Association
Language:	English
Submitter:	Alina Kneubühler
Date Deposited:	02 Apr 2024 12:18
Last Modified:	02 Apr 2024 12:18
Publisher DOI:	10.1037/0000364-002
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/195078