Examined therapy supervision in which supervisors (N=29), observing through one-way mirror, telephoned in suggestions to therapist during session. Found supervisors attached most importance to parsimony, clarity, and timing of phone-ins and affirmed supervisor's responsibility to clients in crisis, advocated flexibility in how therapists use…

Marriage and family therapy training clinic clients rated their therapist's skill level on several therapist variables including "experience,""confidence,""concern," and how well the treatment seemed to fit their view of the problem. Suggestions for using these results in supervision of beginning therapists are given.…

Reports the development of a scale for evaluating family therapist skills. All items discriminated significantly between videotaped segments of effective and ineffective family therapist skills and between experienced and inexperienced family therapists. Interrater reliability and internal consistency of the categories were acceptable. The scale…

Describes the development of an instrument designed to evaluate the effectiveness of family therapy training. The device consists of a videotape of an enacted family therapy session and a series of multiple-choice questions regarding the respondents' observations, conceptualizations and recommendations. A sample question is included. (Author/JAC)

Uses a content analysis of the available treatment literature to generate guidelines for use in training and evaluating culturally competent therapists. Guidelines include: use family therapy; act as advocate for the family; assess immigration experience; assess acculturation; respect father; interview family subsystems separately; do not force…