Toward Transdisciplinary Quality Measures of Competence in Psychotherapy: Measures to Identify “Good Enough” Therapists

What is it about?

Employers and patients require practical ways to identify competent practitioners and weed out those who are ineffective or dangerous. Training and licensing requirements across mental health disciplines vary widely and offer little information about specific psychotherapy competencies. Despite the development of new measures, no gold standards for assessing psychotherapy competence exist. Unchanged over decades, to assess therapist competence employers and patients must still largely rely on an assortment of certifications, personal references, and patients’ accounts of experiences with their therapists. All these sources are increasingly accessible thanks to web-based technologies.

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