Practice Analysis Survey
It will be necessary to conduct a Practice Analysis Survey (PAS) on all the competencies, once they have been drafted, to see if they really are considered by everyone as important, and relevant, and also how frequently used they are. All the people on the Participants List will be asked to involve themselves in the essential work of feeding back to us quite precisely how we are doing using the PAS.
This is not just an empty exercise. It is essential to ensure that the profession has been properly consulted and involved and that the results are therefore relevant. We will circulate this information to everyone on our mailing lists: the Participants to this Project; all the EAP organisational members and professional associations; and all the ECP holders and Individual Members. Normally, for such a PAS for a profession, at least (about) 80% of people involved (professional training schools, universities, practitioners, client groups, etc.) need to be informed and about 15% (or more) need to respond.
The rating scales used are:
- Relevancy Rating: How 'relevant' is the competency to ensure that the practitioner can function professionally?
0 = Not relevant
1 = Somewhat relevant
2 = Moderately relevant
3 = Highly relevant
- Importance Rating: How 'important' is the competency to protect the interests of the public and/or to respond to the needs of the client or organization?
0 = Not important
1 = Slightly important
2 = Moderately important
3 = Highly important
- Frequency Rating: How 'frequently' do you perform the competency?
0 = Never
1 = Occasionally
2 = Moderately frequently
3 = Routinely
- A 'ranking scale' can then be developed and each competency statement will therefore be assigned a ranked value that is a composite of the Relevancy, Importance and Frequency ratings. This assists the process of identifying the essential Core Competencies for the profession of psychotherapy.
We are also very interested in your comments, criticisms, thoughts, ideas, suggestions, etc. There are plently of spaces for these on the PAS forms. Please put anything that you want into these spaces. All your comments will be recorded and will help to determine the final Core Competencies. This sort of feedback is also very important to us!
The resulting Scale of Rankings:
Examples of the use of rankings:- High = 7 - 9
- (High) Ensures the reliability of professional performance; technical information; protects public interest
- (High) Indicates good use of knowledge and skills in workplace
- Moderate = 4 - 6
- (Mod) Provides a background to professional work
- (Mod) Develops diagnoses, prognoses and plans
- Low = 1 - 3
- (Low) Advises on development of strategy
- (Low) Maybe we got something a bit wrong
- A ranking of 0 might mean that that particular competency should probably be eliminated or radically revised.
The Practice Analysis Surveys for all the Core Competencies in each Domain were available from the end of July 2011.
You can start to complete these and then send them in to us: however, this part of the analysis is now over (Sept. 2012).
Core Competencies: Domain 1: Practice Analysis Survey: download here.
Core Competencies: Domain 2: Practice Analysis Survey: download here.
Core Competencies: Domain 3: Practice Analysis Survey: download here.
Core Competencies: Domain 4: Practice Analysis Survey: download here.
Core Competencies: Domain 5: Practice Analysis Survey: download here.
Core Competencies: Domain 6: Practice Analysis Survey: download here.
Core Competencies: Domain 7: Practice Analysis Survey: download here.
Core Competencies: Domain 8: Practice Analysis Survey: download here.
Core Competencies: Domain 9: Practice Analysis Survey: download here.
Core Competencies: Domain 10: Practice Analysis Survey: download here.
Core Competencies: Domain 11: Practice Analysis Survey: download here.
Core Competencies: Domain 12: Practice Analysis Survey: download here.
Core Competencies: Domain 13: Practice Analysis Survey: download here.
NB: The original PAS forms have been revised: please make sure that you are using one marked 'Version 2' with a date in July 2011.
Results
Some of our Participants started filling these forms in and several Participants have completed filling them in ... and they now have 3 Gold Stars! (see here).
Ideally we would have liked a total of (about) 150 sets of these forms to ensure a sufficiently good represtation across the field, from as many as possible from:
- European Wide Organisations = modalities;
- National Umbrella Organisations = countries;
- European Accredited Psychotherapy Training Iinstitutes = training schoolss;
- Ordinary Organisations in psychotherapy;
- EAP Registrants (ECP: European Certificate of Psychotherapy);
- Governmental bodies; mental health organisations; NGOs; interest groups; professional bodies; media; etc;
- Individuals, psychotherapists, clients, and members of public, etc.
However, what we actually got was about 1/3 of that: 49 Participants in all, with 42 usable sets of data. Still, it was just enough. We have now (Dec 2012) just completed the analysis of that data: the Quantitative Analysis, here and the Qualitative Thematic Analysis, here.
Thank You So Much!