ArticleFrontiers in psychology2021
What Do Therapist Defense Mechanisms Have to Do With Their Experience of Professional Self-Doubt and Vicarious Trauma During the COVID-19 Pandemic?
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- Clinical applications of the Defense Mechanisms Rating Scale-Self-Report-30: a systematic review of the first five years.Research in psychotherapy (Milano) · 2025Article
- Applying the Defense Mechanisms Rating Scales Q-sort to assess patients' level of overall defensive functioning in interview data: validity and reliability.Research in psychotherapy (Milano) · 2025Article
- Therapists' defense use impacts their patients' defensive functioning: a systematic case study.Research in psychotherapy (Milano) · 2024Article
- What helps the helpers? Resilience and risk factors for general and profession-specific mental health problems in psychotherapists during the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Case report: Changes in defense mechanisms, personality functioning, and body mass index during psychotherapy with patients with anorexia nervosa.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Mindfulness and Defense Mechanisms as Explicit and Implicit Emotion Regulation Strategies against Psychological Distress during Massive Catastrophic Events.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Assessing children's defense mechanisms with the Defense Mechanisms Rating Scales Q-sort for Children.Research in psychotherapy (Milano) · 2021Article
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Abstract
This is the first study to examine psychotherapists' levels of defense mechanisms, their concurrent relationship with professional work-related stress (professional self-doubt and vicarious trauma), and how their levels of defense mechanisms predict the changes in these professional stresses over the course of 3 months since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Data from two online studies (Study 1;
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