This study aimed to describe the lifestyle factors and mental health levels among higher education students and identify their predictors. A cross-sectional study with a sample of 745 students was conducted with students from the Polytechnic of Porto using the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS-21), Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation (CORE)-18, and FANTASTICO Lifestyle Questionnaire. The findings indic...
Individual and combined attachment dimensions within the dyad may affect therapists’ experiences in ways that hinder mentalizing and threaten the alliance. Previous research on a particular therapists’ mentalizing ability named the elaboration of countertransference experience (ECE) suggests that attachment may affect therapists’ mental processes, which in turn are involved in alliance variations between dyads ...
Alliance may impact psychotherapy outcomes both as a precondition that enables therapeutic work and an evolving process that is therapeutic in itself. This study examined the participation of the elaboration of countertransference experience (ECE) in alliance variation between therapist– client dyads early in therapy and within dyads over time. A total of 44 session assessments nested within 12 dyads were model...