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First‐Session Competency: The Brief Strategic Therapy Scale‐1
Author(s) -
Amini Rachelle L.,
Woolley Scott R.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of marital and family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.868
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1752-0606
pISSN - 0194-472X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2010.00201.x
Subject(s) - session (web analytics) , scale (ratio) , intervention (counseling) , fidelity , psychology , usability , applied psychology , computer science , human–computer interaction , psychiatry , telecommunications , physics , quantum mechanics , world wide web
The first session in brief strategic therapy is the most critical phase of treatment. More than a mere “assessment phase,” the first session in a true intervention sets the stage for all subsequent therapeutic maneuvers. This article presents a supervisory observation tool, the Brief Strategic Therapy Scale‐1 (BSTS‐1), a fidelity measure proposed as a more formal method of analyzing performance and competency of the therapist for the first session. During scale development, a narrow group of expert judges defined the core skills of therapists and determined the structure/phases of a brief strategic therapy first session. In addition, expert collaborators gave feedback on the scale's usability. This article concludes with the BSTS‐1.