Patient Attachment to Therapist Rating Scale: development and psychometric properties.

Objective: To report on the development and initial psychometric properties of a new rating scale for patent-therapist attachment.

Method: Seventy interviews from the Young Adult Psychotherapy Project (YAPP) were rated.

Results: Excellent internal consistency (Cronbach's α > .

Supervisor trainees' and their supervisors' perceptions of attainment of knowledge and skills: an empirical evaluation of a psychotherapy supervisor training programme.

Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the success of a 2-year, part-time training programme for psychotherapy supervisors. A second aim was to examine factors that might contribute to perceived knowledge and skills attainment during the training course.

Design: This is a naturalistic, longitudinal study where several measures are used to examine group process and outcome.

Group supervision in psychotherapy: the relationship between focus, group climate, and perceived attained skill.

This study examined supervisees and supervisors' view on focus and group climate in group supervision and their relationship with supervisees' attained skill. After supervision, supervisees completed a revised version of Buckley's measure of psychotherapeutic skill. Supervisees and supervisors' experience of focus and climate in the supervision was measured with a questionnaire, Topics and Climate (TAC).