title: Emotion Focused Therapy-Therapist Fidelity Scale (EFT-TFS): Conceptual Development and Content Validity.
abstract: The Emotion Focused Therapy-Therapist Fidelity Scale (EFT-TFS) is introduced as a scale to measure a therapist's fidelity to the EFT model. The rationale and conceptual development of the scale are presented. Members of an EFT electronic mailing list who participated in a survey (n=130) rated all of the items as highly important for the practice providing support for the content validity of the scale. Finally, the 13 items of the EFT-TFS are presented. Future research directions for the EFT-TFS are presented.
authors.affiliation: Family Studies Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75390-9121. wayne.denton@utsouthwestern.edu.
authors.forename: Wayne H
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Denton
authors.forename: Susan M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: Brant R
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Burleson