The Self-focused Practice Questionnaire (SfPQ): Preliminary Psychometric Properties of a Measure of Therapist Self-focused Practice

Chigwedere, Craig; Fitzmaurice, Brian; Donohoe, Gary

doi:10.1017/s1352465817000042

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“…Thus, personal therapy potentially enables the therapist to refine the 'self ' further to heighten the effectiveness of the therapy sessions. The use of the term 'self ' is also consistent with the aspects of personal practices and self-evaluation that are examined by various questionnaires, including the Selffocused Practice Questionnaire [35], which measures two domains, the 'personal self ' and 'professional self '. This raises the question of why the paper is proposing a third category of benefits of personal therapy-'therapeutic alliance'.…”

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A Systematic Review of the Impact of Personal Therapy on Therapists

Haikal¹

2022

Curr Res Psychol Behav Sc

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Despite the high prevalence of therapists receiving personal therapy to aid in the competent delivery of psychological treatment to clients, the understanding of its impact is limited [1]. A comprehensive review by Macran & Shapiro [2] reported methodological shortcomings in earlier research literature, preventing the researchers from establishing their conclusions with certainty. This paper systematically reviewed the research literature on this topic since the work by Macran & Shapiro [2] to examine new evidence of its impact. A total of sixteen studies were identified for this review. The paper found common professional and personal benefits consistently reported across the studies, but the evidence on the effects of personal therapy on client outcomes were inconclusive. Some therapists also reported perceiving negative experiences from personal therapy. A closer examination of the studies identified in the paper indicated that they continued to possess significant weaknesses in their research methodology. The paper then proceeded to propose how the commonly reported benefits can be organized into a preliminary model that can be utilized to guide future efforts in understanding the impacts of personal therapy

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A Systematic Review of the Impact of Personal Therapy on Therapists

Haikal¹

2022

Curr Res Psychol Behav Sc

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“…A challenge for CBT training institutions promoting PP may be how to assess its quality. To date, two SP/SR measures have been validated, the Self-focused Practice Questionnaire (SfPQ; Chigwedere et al ., 2017) and the Self-Reflective Writing Scale (SRWS; So et al ., 2018). The SfPQ is a self-report measure of the overall self-perceived impact of SP/SR on the personal- and therapist-self domains.…”

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“…The SfPQ is a self-report measure of the overall self-perceived impact of SP/SR on the personal- and therapist-self domains. It is a measure of change in perception with good inter-rater and internal consistency reliability (Chigwedere et al ., 2017). However, it is not a measure of the quality of personal practice per se .…”

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Reliability of the Reflective Essay Marking Scale (REMS): a scale for marking of students’ reflective essays

Chigwedere

Fitzmaurice²,

Thwaites³

2023

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Personal practice (PP) is widely practised and a requirement across major psychology and psychotherapy organizations and modalities. However, one of the challenges for training institutions is how to assess the quality of such PP. The Reflective Essay Marking Scale (REMS) was developed to improve standardization of marking reflective essays in cognitive behavioural psychotherapy (CBT) training. A small sample of 16 expert CBT participants recruited by email used the REMS to rate two mock reflective essays in a within-subjects design. The internal consistency of REMS was acceptable (Cronbach’s α=.73) with excellent inter-rater reliability. Across the raters, it sufficiently differentiated quality (t12=4.91; p<.0001). Although these are the results of a preliminary and very small study with a small sample using mock essays, the REMS may be a useful scale, allowing CBT courses to account for students’ reflective work in a standardized way. A larger validation study is required in the future. Key learning aims (1) To improve the thinking about what raters should focus on when rating the reflective essays of trainee therapists. (2) To describe the development of the scale and how its reliability was tested. (3) To improve the transparency and objectivity in assessing and rating reflective practice.

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