ABSTRACT
The author begins this chapter with an account of his involvement in a project to develop NVQ skills for psychotherapy and how this for him established the fact that cognitive therapy had developed a particularly strong tradition of clearly defining skills and methods. One sign of this tradition is the development of the Cognitive Therapy Scale (CTS) and its revised format (CTS-R). This is an instrument that enables the measure of CT/CBT skills and has been used in both competence assessment and in research. The strengths and weaknesses of the CTS are noted.
