The Development of a Measure of Confidence in Delivering Therapy to People with Intellectual Disabilities

摘要: Current policy in UK health services emphasizes that, where possible, people with intellectual disabilities should access the same as without disabilities. One of barriers to this is confidence clinicians and therapists. In paper, we report on development a scale describe therapists working (the Therapy Confidence Scale-Intellectual Disabilities [TCS-ID]). One-hundred eighty-one who provided talking therapies but did not work primarily completed scale; 43 twice for test-retest reliability purposes. seven also general therapy self-efficacy. The TCS-ID has single factor structure accounting 62% variance, Cronbach's alpha 0.93 0.83. There are significant differences based upon participants experience their therapeutic orientation, there association between General Self-efficacy Scale. Sixty mainstream mental received training adapting approaches meet needs was used pre-training post-training demonstrated increase all group. We suggest that good psychometric properties can be develop an understanding impact therapist Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Key Practitioner Message increasing emphasis receiving from services. no research describing experiences outcomes have may barrier them psychometrically sound measuring useful outcome measure