Article ; Online: A Preliminary Exploratory Factor Analysis of the BDSM Counselor Competency Scale.
2024 Volume 53, Issue 4, Page(s) 1487–1498
Abstract: BDSM practitioners represent a large sexual minority group often overlooked, misunderstood, and unnecessarily pathologized by mental health clinicians. Although developing cultural competence for diverse and marginalized populations is widely understood ... ...
Abstract | BDSM practitioners represent a large sexual minority group often overlooked, misunderstood, and unnecessarily pathologized by mental health clinicians. Although developing cultural competence for diverse and marginalized populations is widely understood to be a core component of delivering efficacious therapeutic services that can counteract these stigmatizing mental healthcare experiences, no measures currently exist that assess clinicians' self-reported competence to work with BDSM practitioners. Previous measurement work has been done to establish self-report competency scales for clinicians working with other sexual and gender minority groups, but no such scales exist for working with BDSM practitioners. In the current study, we adapted a version of the Sexual Orientation Counselor Competency Scale (SOCCS) to measure clinicians' self-reported competence to work with BDSM practitioners and did a preliminary exploratory factor analysis of the new scale (n = 124). After an initial 24-item administration, principal axis factoring of our final 17-item solution revealed two latent factors (attitudes and skills/knowledge) consistent with the 2013 SOCCS and the theoretical constructs of cultural competency. The BDSM Counselor Competency Scale (BDSM-CCS) can help clinicians, practices, agencies, and training programs track self-reported cultural competence with the BDSM population. Future research directions for scale development and clinical and training applications are discussed. |
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MeSH term(s) | Humans ; Male ; Female ; Counselors ; Sexual Behavior/psychology ; Gender Identity ; Self Report ; Delivery of Health Care |
Language | English |
Publishing date | 2024-02-20 |
Publishing country | United States |
Document type | Journal Article |
ZDB-ID | 184221-3 |
ISSN | 1573-2800 ; 0004-0002 |
ISSN (online) | 1573-2800 |
ISSN | 0004-0002 |
DOI | 10.1007/s10508-023-02788-z |
Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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