School of Social Work, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
School of Social Work, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA.
J Homosex. 2021 Sep 19;68(11):1785-1812. doi: 10.1080/00918369.2020.1712138. Epub 2020 Feb 7.
This study introduces a new instrument designed to assess affirmative clinical practices with sexual and gender minority (SGM) clients, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Competency Assessment Tool (LGBT-CAT). The LGBT-CAT has two unique qualities: Its design enables adaptation to measure practice competencies with gay, lesbian, bisexual and/or transgender clients, the latter of which has no existing measures regarding practice competencies, and it uses a qualitative collection method. Participants respond to 12 open-ended prompts; responses are then quantified by one or more raters based on a scoring rubric. In this cross-sectional study, practicing social workers ( = 357) were surveyed using the LGBT-CAT as well as measures of affirmative practices with SGM clients, knowledge, beliefs, self-efficacy skills, attitudes, and behaviors. The LGBT-CAT demonstrated good reliability, poor criterion validity, and adequate construct validity. These results support the potential integration of the LGBT-CAT into research on practice with SGM clients.
本研究介绍了一种新的工具，旨在评估针对性少数群体（SGM）客户的肯定性临床实践，即同性恋、双性恋、跨性别能力评估工具（LGBT-CAT）。LGBT-CAT 具有两个独特的特点：其设计使它能够适应测量与男同性恋、女同性恋、双性恋和/或跨性别客户的实践能力，而后者没有关于实践能力的现有措施，并且它使用定性收集方法。参与者对 12 个开放式提示做出回应；然后，根据评分标准，由一名或多名评分者对回复进行量化。在这项横断面研究中，使用 LGBT-CAT 以及对 SGM 客户的肯定性实践、知识、信仰、自我效能技能、态度和行为的测量方法对在职社会工作者（n=357）进行了调查。LGBT-CAT 表现出良好的可靠性、较差的标准有效性和足够的结构有效性。这些结果支持将 LGBT-CAT 纳入对 SGM 客户实践的研究。
