@article{0b1d357f908c485fa93c51b986dac293,
title = "Measuring Competence in Systemic Practice: Development of the {\textquoteleft}Systemic Family Practice – Systemic Competency Scale{\textquoteright} (SPS)",
abstract = "Ensuring that practitioners are competent in the therapies they deliver is important for training, therapeutic outcomes and ethical practice. The development of the Systemic Practice Scale (SPS) is reported – a measure to assess the competence of students as trialed by Children and Young Person's Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (CYP-IAPT) training courses. Initial reliability assessment of the SPS with twenty-eight supervisors of systemic practice evaluating students{\textquoteright} competence using an online recording of a family therapy session is detailed. The SPS was found to be a reliable measure of systemic competence across training settings. Rating variability was noted, with training and benchmarking to improve rating consistency recommended. Further research using the SPS to further establish the reliability and validity of the scale is required. Practitioner points: SPS represents an important tool, particularly for the supervision and development of more junior staff or students Initial reliability for use of the SPS as a formative tool has been established. Further benchmarking is required if using the tool in a summative manner.",
keywords = "assessment, competence, systemic practice, training",
author = "Catherine Butler and Elizabeth Sheils and Trish Joscelyne and Judith Lask and Helen Pote and Jon Crossley",
note = "Funding Information: This project, therefore, aimed to assess the reliability of the Systemic Practice Scale (SPS) and also assessed the possibility of the scale being useful for other courses, particularly in the training of Clinical Psychologists in the UK. The project was funded by the Division of Clinical Psychology, British Psychological Society. A significant challenge during this research study was recruitment. The original design was to recruit via the DClinPsy supervisors? mailing list of the research team, fifteen systemic intermediate training courses and all CYP-IAPT courses. Due to minimal responses the Association of Family Therapy (AFT) sent information about the research to their mailing list and an announcement was made at the Annual AFT conference. Despite interest from fifty-eight individuals, only twenty-eight completed the research. Thus, funding and pragmatic constraints of this research project meant that the data collection phase was shorter than ideal and included a wider variation of training and experience with the SPS than originally planned. Future research would benefit from engaging multiple training centres over a longer period of time to increase the sample size and representativeness of the sample. With a larger sample, further analysis could explore if the scale was used differently by assessors with different qualifications and experience. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 The Association for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice",
year = "2020",
month = feb,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1111/1467-6427.12251",
language = "English",
volume = "42",
pages = "79--99",
journal = "Journal of Family Therapy",
issn = "0163-4445",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell",
number = "1",
}