First stage development of a team as secure base questionnaire using a Delphi study

Behrova, Viktoria and Biggart, Laura (2025) First stage development of a team as secure base questionnaire using a Delphi study. Journal of Social Work Practice, 39 (1). pp. 69-84. ISSN 0265-0533

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Abstract

Teams help mitigate emotional demands in high-stake professions, like social work. Providing a secure base fosters trust, giving individuals confidence to work competently and provide effective care for service users. The Team as Secure Base model (TASB) proposes that team availability, reliability and sensitivity promote reassuring internal mental representations that the team can be supportive in adversity. Creating secure base teams is of interest to organisations as identifying and articulating team issues is challenging. It is unknown whether the TASB framework reflects perceptions of secure base function in wider work teams. Creating a TASB measure could help establish this evidence. The Delphi method was employed developing initial questions for a TASB questionnaire, measuring Availability, Sensitivity, Acceptance, Co-operation and Team Membership. Across three phases, social work experts provided qualitative and quantitative data of items evaluating content validity. The final questionnaire (n207 items) conceptually captured five TASB dimensions for supervisors and co-workers.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	team as secure base,delphi method,social work,emotional demands,psychology(all),sdg 8 - decent work and economic growth,2* ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3200
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Research on Children and Families Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Social Cognition Research Group
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	20 Dec 2024 01:13
Last Modified:	16 Feb 2025 07:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/98042
DOI:	10.1080/02650533.2024.2433210

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