| Abstract: | Used self-report data from a questionnaire survey of 183 respondents from 10 graduate programs in clinical psychology to assess (a) trainees' views regarding the importance of their personal competence as psychotherapists to their ideal future professional roles and (b) the relationship between trainees' present felt psychotherapeutic competence and quantitative aspects of psychotherapy supervision, curricular, and personal-trainee variables. Results indicate that Ss attributed a high degree of importance to their personal competence as a psychotherapist. Multiple regression analysis yielded 7 predictor variables, which accounted for 41% of the variance in self-ratings of present competence as a psychotherapist. Subsequent partial correlation analysis, controlling for age and year in program, suggested that total number of psychotherapy supervisors and total hours of psychotherapy supervision were the best predictors of Ss' ratings of their current level of psychotherapeutic competence. (15 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
