Reviewed 149 studies which measured counselor or therapist competencies and examined them for evidence of the reliability and validity associated with the assessment instruments. Only 43 percent of the measurements included reliability data computed at the time they were used, and only 12 percent were accompanied by evidence of their validity.…

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 approach to the measurement of the empathic quality of counselor behavior, featuring the division of the empathy construct into components tapping different aspects of empathic behavior, greater specification of the construct, and a focus on the empathic qualities of individual counselor responses. (Author)

The Alcoholism Intervention Performance Evaluation was developed to evaluate interviewing and intervention skills. The scale can be used to provide trainees with instructional feedback or to certify interviewer proficiency. The 35-item rating instrument has 7 factors, an interrater reliability of .73, and a test-retest reliability of .89.…