Measuring psychotherapist functioning with the Therapist Work Involvement Scales (TWIS): reliability, factor structure, and measurement invariance.

IF 2.6 1区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL

Psychotherapy Research Pub Date : 2024-08-19 DOI:10.1080/10503307.2024.2389857

Armin Hartmann, David E Orlinsky, M Helge Rønnestad, Ulrike Willutzki, Thomas A Schröder, Erkki Heinonen

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Abstract

Objectives: The Therapist Work Involvement Scales (TWIS) is a self-report research instrument that enables a multilayered description of psychotherapists' experiences when treating clients. The TWIS was created in a comprehensive study of close to 5,000 psychotherapists, and has been used in multiple studies. The aim of the current paper is to clarify the organization and statistical characteristics of the TWIS, and to present an updated version for longitudinal and cross-sectional research.

Methods: Collection of a large sample of psychotherapy trainees made possible the use of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to evaluate the dimensions and structure of therapists' process experiences, assessing reliabilities, measurement invariance over gender, item statistics, and correlations with other measures to show concurrent and predictive validity.

Results: The CFAs largely confirmed the factor structure of four of the five facets, and of the global super-factors. The global factors of Healing Involvement and Stressful Involvement each showed substantial correlations with therapists' attachment style and professional growth, and were used to describe four practice patterns that typify the experiences of therapists.

Conclusion: The results have shown the TWIS to be a statistically sound, multidimensional research instrument enabling therapists to describe their experience in current therapeutic work.

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用治疗师工作参与量表（TWIS）测量心理治疗师的功能：可靠性、因素结构和测量不变量。

目的：治疗师工作参与量表（TWIS）是一种自我报告研究工具，能够多层次地描述心理治疗师在治疗客户时的体验。TWIS 是在一项针对近 5000 名心理治疗师的综合研究中编制的，并已在多项研究中使用。本文旨在阐明 TWIS 的组织和统计特征，并为纵向和横向研究提供最新版本：方法：通过收集大量心理治疗学员样本，使用确认性因素分析（CFA）评估治疗师过程体验的维度和结构，评估信度、性别测量不变性、项目统计以及与其他测量的相关性，以显示并发有效性和预测有效性：结果：CFA 在很大程度上证实了五个方面中四个方面的因子结构以及总体超因子结构。治疗性参与和压力性参与这两个全局因子分别与治疗师的依恋风格和专业成长表现出很大的相关性，并被用来描述治疗师经验中的四种实践模式：研究结果表明，TWIS 是一种统计学上可靠的多维度研究工具，能够让治疗师描述他们在当前治疗工作中的经验。

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Psychotherapy Research PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL-

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7.80

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期刊介绍： Psychotherapy Research seeks to enhance the development, scientific quality, and social relevance of psychotherapy research and to foster the use of research findings in practice, education, and policy formulation. The Journal publishes reports of original research on all aspects of psychotherapy, including its outcomes, its processes, education of practitioners, and delivery of services. It also publishes methodological, theoretical, and review articles of direct relevance to psychotherapy research. The Journal is addressed to an international, interdisciplinary audience and welcomes submissions dealing with diverse theoretical orientations, treatment modalities.