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Developing objective measures for spiritual and religious competence in psychotherapy is crucial. A new scale shows promise for assessing these skills and their impact on therapeutic alliance.

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Background:

Spiritual and religious competence is vital for addressing patient struggles.
Objective measures to assess clinician competence in this area are lacking.

Purpose of the Study:

Develop and validate the Brief Spirituality/Religiosity Functional Competency Scale.
Examine the link between these competencies and therapeutic alliance.

Main Methods:

105 doctoral trainees participated in objective-structured clinical examinations.
An observational tool assessed functional spiritual/religious competencies.
Reliability and validity were evaluated using simulated clinical encounters.

Main Results:

The scale demonstrated acceptable reliability and validity.
Specific competencies like "Help Explore Strengths" and advocacy skills predicted therapeutic alliance.
Advocacy skills predicted cultural humility.

Conclusions:

Assessing discrete spiritual/religious competencies is more informative than global ratings.
The developed scale is promising for evaluating clinician competence in spiritual and religious domains.