Supportive therapy is the psychotherapeutic approach employed with the majority of mentally ill individuals. Nevertheless, most mental health professional training programs dedicate little time and effort to the teaching and learning of supportive therapy, and many mental health professionals are unable to clearly and concisely articulate the nature or process of supportive work. Although suppo...

Previous research considering a normative perspective for fostering knowledge integration at the team level of analysis underscores that teams are often reluctant to share important knowledge among their members. In the attempt to provide a wider perspective on team knowledge integration, we take a different perspective, basing our arguments on team climate theoretical framework. Specifically, ...

Abstract Anchored in the socio-ecological framework, current study examined association of teacher autonomy support with emotional-behavioral functioning profiles using a person-centered approach and investigated whether growth mindset adolescents’ gender would moderate this association. To achieve these research objectives, involved 1741 adolescents (54.1% girls; M age = 12.62; SD 1.50) who we...

Drawing on self-determination theory, family stress and the social determinants of health framework, current study sought to evaluate direct indirect relationships among socioeconomic status (maternal education income), parenting stress, autonomy supportive behavior, children’s positive outcomes (e.g., competences, academic skills, persistence) using a racially diverse sample from low-income ba...