The Validity and Reliability Study of Therapeutic Alliance Scale: Psychological Counselor Version

Year 2020, , 10 - 20, 01.09.2020

Mehmet Kandemir

https://doi.org/10.17220/ijpes.2020.02.002

Abstract

This study aimed to design a measurement tool for measuring the therapeutic alliance skills of the experts providing psychological counseling services. For the preliminary validity and reliability study of the Therapeutic Alliance Scale, 224 people working as psychological counselors were reached. After the preparation of the data for analysis and establishing the hypotheses, exploratory factor analysis was conducted in the study. As a result of the analysis, the Kaise-Meyer-Olkin KMO value was found as 0.90, and the Barlett test was determined as χ2 = 1343.61 p

Keywords

Therapeutic alliance, Psychological Counselor, Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Exploratory Factor Analysis

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