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Assessing Competence in Collaborative Case Conceptualization: Development and Preliminary Psychometric Properties of the Collaborative Case Conceptualization Rating Scale (CCC-RS)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 January 2015

Willem Kuyken*
Affiliation:
University of Oxford, UK
Shadi Beshai
Affiliation:
University of Calgary, Canada and University of Exeter, UK
Robert Dudley
Affiliation:
Newcastle University, UK
Anna Abel
Affiliation:
University of Exeter, UK
Nora Görg
Affiliation:
University of Exeter, UK
Philip Gower
Affiliation:
University of Exeter, UK
Freda McManus
Affiliation:
University of Oxford, UK
Christine A. Padesky
Affiliation:
Center for Cognitive Therapy, Huntington Beach, California, USA
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Reprint requests to Willem Kuyken, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK. E-mail: willem.kuyken@psych.ox.ac.uk
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Abstract

Background: Case conceptualization is assumed to be an important element in cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) because it describes and explains clients’ presentations in ways that inform intervention. However, we do not have a good measure of competence in CBT case conceptualization that can be used to guide training and elucidate mechanisms. Aims: The current study addresses this gap by describing the development and preliminary psychometric properties of the Collaborative Case Conceptualization – Rating Scale (CCC-RS; Padesky et al., 2011). The CCC-RS was developed in accordance with the model posited by Kuyken et al. (2009). Method: Data for this study (N = 40) were derived from a larger trial (Wiles et al., 2013) with adults suffering from resistant depression. Internal consistency and inter-rater reliability were calculated. Further, and as a partial test of the scale's validity, Pearson's correlation coefficients were obtained for scores on the CCC-RS and key scales from the Cognitive Therapy Scale – Revised (CTS-R; Blackburn et al., 2001). Results: The CCC-RS showed excellent internal consistency (α = .94), split-half (.82) and inter-rater reliabilities (ICC =.84). Total scores on the CCC-RS were significantly correlated with scores on the CTS-R (r = .54, p < .01). Moreover, the Collaboration subscale of the CCC-RS was significantly correlated (r = .44) with its counterpart of the CTS-R in a theoretically predictable manner. Conclusions: These preliminary results indicate that the CCC-RS is a reliable measure with adequate face, content and convergent validity. Further research is needed to replicate and extend the current findings to other facets of validity.

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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 2015 
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Table 1. Description of the domains comprising the Collaborative Case Conceptualization-Rating Scale (CCC-RS)

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Table 2. Baseline demographic and psychiatric characteristics of participants in the CoBalT CBT condition (N = 234) compared to the present study (N = 40)

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Table 3. Descriptive statistics for CCC-RS

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