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Nurturing Therapists: Enhancing Flexibility & Relationships

Join us to develop psychological flexibility and relationship skills for aspiring clinicians. Explore the Therapist Belief Scale, Interpersonal Reactivity Index, and more to improve practice. Discover how to overcome rigidity, false responsibilities, and the need for control in therapy. Enhance empathy and distress tolerance for better client outcomes.

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Nurturing Therapists: Enhancing Flexibility & Relationships

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  1. Growing Therapists 101: Psychological Flexibility and Relationship Skills in the Developing Clinician Emmy LeBleu, Tracy Protti, & Emily Sandoz, Ph.D. Louisiana Contextual Science Research Group University of Louisiana at Lafayette

  2. Research for a reason.

  3. Measures Therapist Belief Scale (TBS-R) Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (AAQ-II)

  4. Therapist Scale

  5. Tolerance of Distress If I allow myself to feel what my client feels I’ll be damaged. I must not allow my client to become too distressed in therapy. I shouldn’t allow my clients to become distressed, they really want to feel better.

  6. Rigid Model Adherence If I just stick to one therapeutic model it will solve the problem for me. Once I have decided on a treatment model I should stick to it.

  7. Belief of Responsibility If my clients do not progress it is my responsibility. I am responsible if therapy is not successful.

  8. Need for Control/Understanding If I don’t have all the information I’m uncomfortable with therapy. I must fully understand what happens in therapy in order to help the client

  9. Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI)

  10. Perspective Taking (PT) “When I am upset at someone, I usually try to ‘put myself in his shoes’ for a while.”

  11. Empathic Concern (EC) “When I see someone being taken advantage of, I feel kind of protective towards them.”

  12. Personal Distress (PD) “In emergency situations, I feel apprehensive and ill-at-ease.”

  13. Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (AAQ-II)

  14. p = .06 7/8 • Higher scores = higher tolerance of distress

  15. P = .68 6/8 • Higher scores = less rigidity

  16. Higher scores = felt less responsibility

  17. p = .31 5/8 • Higher scores = less need for control

  18. p = .032* 6/8 Higher score = greater PT

  19. p = .28 5/8 Higher Scores = More Personal Distress

  20. p = .02* 5/8 Higher scores = more empathic concern

  21. p = .56 6/8 Higher Scores = Higher Inflexibility

  22. Thank You for Attending Today’s Presentation emmy.lebleu@gmail.com emilykenninson@gmail.com www.louisianacontextualscience.com

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