Well Therapist competence. Where to begin?
It's basically the extent to which a clinician or therapist has the knowledge to deliver the appropriate treatment to the individual, for example people with schizophrenia, the clinician needs to have good competence to be able to treat them and to be trustworthy in looking after their patient. They will deliver the correct treatment and I think this is mainly for Psychological treatments rather than biological ones. So drugs for example any clinician can give but Psychological treatment such as CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) that is a form of talking and finding the root of the problem to solve the difficulties the patient has.
Obviously Schizophrenia is more of a biological disorder so biological treatment would more likely be given such as ECT (Electro-Convulsive Therapy) where the clinician passes an electrode in the patient's temple and gives them a shock... This is a dangerous and important procedure so the clinician is expected to know the side-effects and to know what they are doing before they carry this out. Therefore therapist competence is presented here as erm... *thinks* as the clinician needs to know what their patient is like in order to give them the right treatment. This is because one kind of treatment may not work for all patients.
Now if only I wrote this in my exam...