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...
The rapid advancement of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools is reshaping higher education, particularly in creative fields such as design, multimedia, and audiovisuals. Students increasingly seek faster solutions for academic challenges, often relying on AI-generated content rather than engaging in research, critical analysis, and validation through credible sources or instructors. This tendency weak...
The attempt to identify and classify distinct experiences falling under the common designation of countertransference has been labelled the specifist tradition. In this paper, a model describing two dimensions differentiating four components of countertransference experience is proposed. For each experiential component (subjective countertransference, objective countertransference, therapeutic attitude and emer...
O modelo biopsicossocial implica uma conceção de saúde que redefine o papel dos profissionais de saúde e dos utentes/doentes, requerendo por parte dos profissionais também um conjunto de competências designadas por transversais. De entre essas competências destacamos a comunicação em saúde, pela evidência hoje disponível acerca da sua importância na adesão terapêutica, na adaptação à doença crónica, no controlo...
As a construct, the elaboration of countertransference experience (ECE) is intended to depict the implicit and explicit psychological work to which therapists submit their experiences with clients. Through ECE, defined as a mentalizing process of a particular kind, therapists' experiences are presumed to acquire and increase in mental quality and become available for meaning-making and judicious clinical use. I...
The Inventory of Personality Organization (IPO) is a self-report measure intended to assess the severity of personality disturbance according to Otto F. Kernberg's model. To study factor structure and psychometric properties of the Portuguese version of IPO (IPO-Pt). Two independent samples of 586 individuals each were used for exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses. Different models were compared in term...
Elaboration of countertransference experience (ECE): implicit and explicit psychological work to which therapists submit experiences with patients (Barreto & Matos, 2016) • Mentalizing process of a particular kind (therapists’ self-oriented mentalizing) through which therapists’ experiences acquire and increase in mental quality (ibd.) • Research addressing psychotherapists’ mentalization is extremely scarce, a...
The working alliance has been recognized as a predictor of psychotherapy outcome across therapeutic orientations. Despite mixed findings regarding the effect of problem severity on the alliance formation, there is evidence suggesting that therapist factors may interfere in this association. This study examined how clients’ baseline clinical features affected the early alliance and the possible role of therapist...
Implicit and explicit psychological work to which therapists’ experiences are submitted (in and between sessions) • “something more” than managing CT – recognizing, regulating, and deriving meaning from experience • “something more” than dealing with resistances – elaboration includes both working out/working over (psychische Verarbeitung) and working through (Durcharbeitung) (McDougall, 1985) • therapists’ raw...
It is sometimes assumed that a counter-complementary stance towards the relational pull exerted by clients plays an important role in the change process (Bernier & Dozier, 2002; Mallinckrodt, 2000). Initial evidence suggests that this can be facilitated by a dissimilar or non-complementary match between relational preferences within the therapeutic dyad and by attachment security in therapists (see Daniel, 2006...