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Introduction
I am interested in mental health in the context of real-world settings and individual and cultural variability.
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Although the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health has been reported in different communities, little is known about the mental health of psychotherapists during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to assess mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in Austrian psychotherapists and compare it with the general population. A total of...
Access to psychotherapy is still limited by various barriers, and little is known about the facilitating circumstances. This study aims to assess self-reported barriers and facilitators to psychotherapy utilisation in private practice and how these access factors relate to psychotherapy goals as formulated by patients. The dataset consists of 21 fa...
Introduction
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the mental health burden on the general population, resulting in increased demands on mental healthcare professionals, including psychotherapists. This cross-sectional study assessed the challenges and resources encountered by 513 psychotherapists based on an online survey conducted between April a...
Introduction
Empowerment is central to self-development and growth in Gestalt therapy. The self evolves through interactions with others, forming self- and object-relations, and ego-functions. Underlying structural functions build the ability to regulate, differentiate, and integrate experiences, leading to self-, and emotion-regulation. Our study...
This research focused on the intricacies of mental health within the psychotherapist community, a domain currently understudied. A recent study suggests a better overall mental health profile for Austrian psychotherapists compared to the general population. However, a substantial proportion of psychotherapists still exhibited scores beyond the cut-...
Background
In recent years, mental health in Austria has faced substantial challenges due to a series of both global and regional crises.
Objective
This study aimed to assess changes in mental health indicators within the Austrian population over time from April 2022 to October 2024 and to identify sociodemographic correlates of poor mental health...
Zusammenfassung
Die Berücksichtigung des psychischen Strukturniveaus in der humanistischen Psychotherapie gewinnt in den letzten Jahren immer mehr an Bedeutung. In diesem Artikel beleuchten wir die Bedeutung der psychischen Struktur und Persönlichkeitsdiagnostik nach der Operationalisierten Psychodynamischen Diagnostik. Aus Sicht von fünf humanisti...
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Dieser Beitrag untersucht psychotherapeutische Prozesse mit besonderem Augenmerk auf die therapeutische Beziehung. Konkret geht es dabei um Überlegungen zur therapeutischen Beziehung aus Sicht von Psychotherapeut:innen sowie der Wahrnehmung von besonderen, förderlichen oder hinderlichen Aspekten durch Patient:innen und Therapeut:inn...
Introduction
Clinical psychologists in Austria shouldered a large part of the massive increase in demand for mental health services caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to find out how the pandemic affected their work and to gather information on how best to support the profession in the event of a crisis.
Methods
N = 172 Austrian cli...
Background
The COVID-19 pandemic increased the mental health burden in the general population, enhancing the demands placed on mental healthcare professionals.
Methods
This study aimed to assess the burdens and resources of clinical psychologists that emerged since the beginning of the pandemic. N = 172 Austrian clinical psychologists participated...
Background:
The impact of therapists' and patients' gender on therapy processes and outcomes remains a subject of intense debate in psychotherapy research.
Aims:
This article explores the role of gender in psychotherapy from the patients' perspective.
Method:
By conducting semi-structured interviews with 20 patients undergoing individual psych...
Background
While most studies assessing psychotherapy efficacy are randomized-controlled trials conducted in research institutions or short clinical treatments, the understanding of psychotherapy effectiveness under regular, clinically representative conditions, particularly in outpatient practice, remains limited. Representative data examining the...
These authors contributed equally to this work. Abstract: This study aimed to analyze areas of concern and support of the Austrian general population two years into the COVID-19 pandemic. A representative sample (N = 1031) of the Austrian general population was surveyed online between 19 April 2022 and 26 April 2022. A qualitative study design was...
This study aimed to analyze areas of concern and support of the Austrian general population two years into the COVID-19 pandemic. A representative sample (N = 1,031) of the Austrian general population was surveyed online between April 19 and 26, 2022. A qualitative study design was used to explore the factors of most considerable current concern (q...
Mental healthcare professionals face diverse challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, which may augment their risk of experiencing adverse mental health outcomes themselves. We aimed to compare depressive, anxiety, insomnia, and stress symptoms in Austrian clinical psychologists during the COVID-19 pandemic with the Austrian general population. A t...
This study aimed to assess patient numbers and the format in which psychotherapy was delivered by Austrian psychotherapists during different time points of the COVID-19 pandemic and to explore psychotherapists` experiences on pandemic-associated changes in their psychotherapeutic work as well as their wishes for support in their professional activi...
Introduction
The impact of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and the associated governmental restrictions on mental health have been reported in different countries. This cross-sectional study evaluated mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in Austria and the association with sociodemographic factors (i.e., age, sex, education, incom...
Adolescents suffer severely from the psychological consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using qualitative content analysis, this study examined open-ended responses to a survey on the mental health of school students in Austria in February 2021. A representative sample (n = 214) was drawn from a total survey sample of 3052 adolescents aged 14–20....
The COVID-19 outbreak has raised questions about how vulnerable groups experience the pandemic. Research that focuses on the view of individuals with pre-existing mental health conditions is still limited, and so are cross-country comparative surveys. We gathered our sample of qualitative data during the first lockdown after governmental measures a...
The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent governmental restrictions have had a major impact on the daily lives of Austrians and negatively affected their mental health. A representative sample of N = 1505 individuals was recruited via Qualtrics® to participate in an online survey between 23 December 2020 and 4 January 2021. A qualitative study design wa...
In this paper we present a multidisciplinary, developmental analysis of a Dominican Republic Vodou servidor (“Marcos”), from childhood to early adulthood, integrating ethnographic observation, field documentation, and anthropological analysis, with relevant constructs from developmental, personality, and clinical psychology. Marcos transitioned fro...
O artigo trata da possessão espiritual durante celebrações públicas de Vodu no sudoeste da República Dominicana. Por meio da análise de materiais videográficos arquivados no Phonogrammarchiv da Academia Austríaca de Ciências, as características do Vodu Dominicano são descritas a partir de três perspectivas interconectadas, com ênfase especial na re...
2017, Música em Contexto
Cultural Studies,
Music,
Music Education,
Musicology,
Ethnomusicology
Recent studies in African contexts have revealed a strong association between spirit possession and severe trauma, with inclusion into a possession cult serving at times a therapeutic function. Research on spirit possession in the Dominican Republic has so far not included quantitative studies of trauma and dissociation. This study evaluated demogr...
The article refers to an involuntary and distressing variety of possession in Dominican vodú, emically referred to as caballo lobo. From the local perspective, the amount of an individual’s spiritual power (fuerza espiritual) is essential to working with the spirits. If a person lacks power his/her “reason” (cerebro) is not ready (preparado) for be...
The following contribution is based on a four-month-long fieldwork in the Southwest of the Dominican Republic. It is an abridgment of my master thesis which deals with possession and healing in the Dominican Republic and is meant to be a brief introduction to the local folk – healing system. The material was gathered from participant observations a...
