The movement towards the conceptualization, description and evaluation of psychotherapists’ competencies has been widely developed in the last years and has relevant implications for psychotherapy, training, and continuous education. In Italy, this movement has been supported by the Committee for Psychotherapists’ Competencies established in 2010 by FIAP (Italian Federation of Psychotherapy’s Associations) and CNSP (National Association of Psychotherapy’s Training Institutes) and has involved more than 1000 psychotherapists from different approaches, by means of conferences, expert meetings, workshops, and focus groups. One of the outcomes of this process has been the development of a new self-assessment tool for core competencies (i.e., those that are shared by therapists from all modalities): the QACP (Questionario per l’Autovalutazione delle Competenze dello Psicoterapeuta). The present study aims to present the process of development and the preliminary proofs of the validity of this tool. Construct and knowngroup validity of the questionnaire were examined, and reliability was estimated by computing the internal consistency reliability coefficients for both the overall and the subscale scores. Overall, the instrument showed satisfactory psychometric characteristics. The limitations of the study and the results are discussed and directions for further research are proposed.
Nesse artigo, é discutido um estudo de caso segundo a Análise Bioenergética, com foco no tema da vergonha presente na experiência interior do cliente de sentir-se ridículo quando faz exercícios físicos propostos durante a sessão de psicoterapia. Dois aspectos do processo psicoterapêutico são destacados: primeiro, como a elaboração desse sentimento pode iniciar-se nos primeiros estágios de terapia e segundo, como dentro da análise na dupla terapêutica, as complexas e intensas valências afetivas implícitas que resultam podem tornar a abordagem a tal tarefa bastante problemática. Essas dificuldades nos levam a reconsiderar o papel do sentimento de vergonha. Em geral, ele precisa ser reconhecido como parte integral do processo de desenvolvimento psicológico do indivíduo; a relevância da intersubjetividade dentro da relação analítica torna-se ainda mais evidente. Dessa perspectiva teórico-clínica, as considerações derivadas de uma abordagem fenomenológica têm reconhecidamente particular importância, visto que até olhares imaginados podem vir a assumir uma relevância fundamental ao longo da ponte de relação de duas vias que une o terapeuta ao cliente.
In this article, a clinical case is discussed according to Bioenergetic Analysis, focusing on the theme of shame and its presence in the patient’s inner experience of feeling ridiculous when carrying out physical exercise proposed during psychotherapy. Two aspects of the therapeutic process are highlighted: first, how the elaboration of this feeling can begin at the very early stages of therapy and second, how within dyadic analysis, the resulting complex and intense affective valences implied can render the approach to such a task quite problematic. Such difficulties lead to the reconsideration of the role of the emotion of shame. Generally, it must be recognized as an integral part of the process of the individual’s psychological development; the relevance of intersubjectivity within the analytic relationship is rendered even more evident. From this theoretical/clinical perspective, considerations derived from a phenomenological approach are recognized as having particular importance, as even imagined looks can assume a central relevance along the two-way relationship bridge that unites the therapist with the patient.
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