La persona del terapeuta: Validación española del Cuestionario de Evaluación del Estilo Personal del Terapeuta (EPT-C)

Abstract

The person of the therapist: Spanish validation of the Personal Style of the Therapist Questionnaire (PST-Q). The Personal Style of the Therapist Questionnaire (PST-Q) is an instrument with more than 20 years of theoretical and empirical developments at the international scenario, especially in Latin America. The main goal of the study was to provide preliminary evidence on its psychometric properties and factorial structure in a sample of Spanish licensed clinical psychologists (N = 350). 7 confirmatory factor analysis were performed to found a 20-item and 5-factor solution that had the best fit indices and internal consistency values. The original abbreviated model of the PST-Q was partially confirmed, since item 28 had to be eliminated because it had a factor weight less than. 30. The alpha values were slightly lower than the original, but equivalent to those of the Portuguese validation. The implications of the findings for training and research in psychotherapy and clinical psychology are discussed.