We are looking at a variety of factors related to therapy participation and adherence from the clinician's viewpoint, and we are interested in assessing the therapist's motivation level. This would be something along the lines of self-efficacy, but we are looking for something specific to participating in the process of psychotherapy.
Hi Lorie,
in two studies I particpated the Helping Alliance Questionnaire (HAQ) was used to assess therapeutic alliance, therapeutic self-efficacy and therapist Motivation and belief in the Change process. I think this Instrument could be a way to measure Motivation.
Link:http://www.med.upenn.edu/cpr/documents/HAQ2QUES.pdf
There are both therapist and patient versions to copmare the viewpoints.
For usage of the Instrument:
Sylvia et al. (2013). Association Between Therapeutic Alliance, Care Satisfaction, and Pharmacological Adherence in Bipolar Disorder. J Clin Psychopharmacol.
An interesting question.
Therapist motivation would also be informed by the specific modality the person was trained in and all the spoken and unspoken assumptions/expectations of what therapy should look like. For example the tensions between CBT practitioners and psychotherapists who believe in long term transferential engagement and depth psychology. The modality prescriptions will influence and affect the motivation of the clinician sometmes for good but sometimes to the detriment of the client.
Measuring therapist motivation in psychotherapy could be studied by using
Q Methodology. "Q" studies subjective experiences and also presents a factor analyses or the Q cards. Q cards would cover the factors that result in motivation.
Read up on it - it is a very good method to do a factor analyses and to quantify subjective experiences. Book on Amazon: The Q-Sort in Character Appraisal: Encoding Subjective Impressions of Persons Quantitatively Hardcover – February, 2008
by Jack Block
Measuring therapist motivation in psychotherapy could be studied by using
Q Methodology. "Q" studies subjective experiences and also presents a factor analyses or the Q cards. Q cards would cover the factors that result in motivation.
Read up on it - it is a very good method to do a factor analyses and to quantify subjective experiences. Book on Amazon: The Q-Sort in Character Appraisal: Encoding Subjective Impressions of Persons Quantitatively Hardcover – February, 2008
by Jack Block
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