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...

We use a series of historical natural experiments in association football to test whether social pressure from home stadium crowd affected behavior and outcomes. The standout effect an empty was that referees cautioned visiting players less often, by over third yellow card per match or once for every 22 fouls committed. Stadium crowds caused favor the team their decision-making. Empty stadiums ...

Using a 3-year longitudinal data set, we examined the effects of consistently versus inconsistently supportive parenting on several aspects of adolescent adjustment. Supportive parenting was a multidimensional construct which included parental sensitivity, predictability and involvement. The sample consisted of 283 German early adolescents (mean age=11.4 years, S.D.=1.2 at time 1) from former E...