Stress, burnout, and professional impairment are prevalent among mental health
professionals and can have a negative impact on their clinical work, whilst engagement in …

Day-to-day life is inundated with attempts to control emotions and a wealth of research has
examined what strategies people use and how effective these strategies are. However, until …

Objective: Close interpersonal relationships are fundamental to emotion regulation. Clinical
theory suggests that one role of therapists in psychotherapy is to help clients regulate …

Recently, novel lines of research have developed to study the influence of identity processes
in sport-related behaviors. Yet, whereas emotions in sport are the result of a complex …

The present study tests a process model of emotional intelligence (EI) which distinguishes
how individuals deal with their own and others' emotions during work–from week to week …

Objective: Therapists' empathic accuracy (EA) toward their clients' fluctuating emotions is a
crucial clinical skill that underlies many therapeutic interventions. In contrast to the …

Studies on therapist factors have mostly focused on therapist traits rather than states such as
affect. Research related to therapist affect has often looked at therapist baseline well-being …

Empathic abilities have been shown to be linked with brain structural variations. Since
psychotherapists constitute a population that tends to display greater empathic abilities, as …

Objective Psychology is a high burnout profession; however, little empirical research has
examined the emotional labour (ie, surface acting, deep acting, expression of naturally felt …

The reduction of aversive emotions by a conspecific's presence—called social buffering—is
a universal phenomenon in the mammalian world and a powerful form of human social …