Competency measures for specific CBS-informed approaches
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT)
Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP)
Internet-based interventions
Mindfulness-based approaches
Process-Based Therapy (PBT)
Supervision
How is competency defined?
Competencies describe the behaviors to be displayed by all members of a community applying specified interventions with specified populations.
Competencies are complex and dynamically interactive clusters of behaviors that enable a person to execute a professional activity with a myriad of potential outcomes (Marrelli, 1998). These clusters may include:
● integrated knowledge of concepts and procedures;
● skills and abilities;
● behaviors and strategies;
● attitudes, beliefs, and values;
● dispositions and personal characteristics;
● self-perceptions; and
● motivations (Mentkowski, 2000)
Elements of Competencies involve the whole person and are:
● transmittable/teachable (relevant to effective dissemination)
● observable (behaviorally stated)
● measurable (based on assessment: exams or skills practice demonstration)
● containable (not so ambiguous as to be never-ending in nature)
● practical (implementable, applicable to a specific area)
● verifiable/linked to external validity
● parsimonious
● criterion referenced rather than norm referenced
● derived by experts
● interpersonal behaviors that support the therapeutic alliance (the behaviors need to be specified, reliable, trainable, etc.)
● flexible and transferable across settings
Competencies also need to be continually reevaluated and redefined as commensurate with new research findings. Supervision, training, and consultation are essential to this process. Supervision provides the context for competence to be developed, providing the essential tools to achieve ongoing development (initiating learning and ongoing skill uptake), performance monitoring, perspective-taking, and evaluating “meta-competence” - the ability to assess what one knows and what one doesn’t know. Meta-competence (perspective taking) helps fulfill the professional responsibility to pursue and support competence throughout one’s career.
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