Hilde Depauw, Alain Van Hiel, Hafsa Talal, Kim Dierckx, Fien Geenen, Barbara Valcke, Barbara De Clercq
Objective: Addressing ethnic-cultural topics during the process of psychotherapy, i.e. broaching , is considered highly important for ethnic minority clients who consult mental health care services. Surprisingly little is known, however, about clients' perception of a therapist's broaching qualities, and how clients' mental construction of broaching translates into behavioural broaching acts a therapist may display. Method: Based on previous work and nine in-depth interviews with ethnic minority clients, a client-rated measure of therapists' broaching behaviour was developed and psychometrically evaluated in two samples...
January 24, 2024: Psychotherapy Research: Journal of the Society for Psychotherapy Research