Current research

Our current program of research explores best practices in building resilience and healing burnout from professional stress. We look forward to sharing the results from our pilot study (happening this spring) at the upcoming meeting of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) in Puerto Rico this summer.

Recent presentations

Harder, L. & Mahoney, C.O. (2017, June.) The Revolving Door Effect - Learned Helplessness and Burnout in Human Services.  Paper presented at The 12th International Conference on Occupational Stress and Health, "Work, Stress and Health 2017: Contemporary Challenges and Opportunities," Minneapolis, MN, 

Mahoney, C.O. & Harder, L.M. (2015, Oct).  Emotions, empathy and the choice to alleviate suffering.  Paper presented at the International Society for Quality of Life Studies (ISQOLS) Annual Conference, Phoenix, AZ 

Harder, L.M. & Mahoney, C.O. (2015, Feb).  Keeping it positive: An experimental study on how burnout impacts the counselor-client relationship.  Poster presented at the 16th Annual Meeting of the  Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Long Beach, CA.​

Harder, L.M. & Mahoney, C.O. (2014, April).  The revolving door: The missing link to assessing burnout.  Poster presented at the Minnesota Psychological Association Annual Convention, Plymouth, MN

select publications

Mahoney, C. O., & Harder, L. M. (2017). Emotions, the Inner Lives of Those Who Work Toward Suffering Relief. In Alleviating World Suffering (pp. 131-145). Springer, Cham.  Available Online:  https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-51391-1_8
  • Moves past the work of our first chapter, focusing on evidence based interventions to increase the personal resources needed to address human suffering without multiplying it.​​
Mahoney, C. O. and Harder, L. M. S. Emotions, Empathy and the Choice to Alleviate Suffering. In R; E. Anderson (Editor) World Suffering and the Quality of Life. New York: Springer, 2015.   Available Online:  https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-017-9670-5_31
  • The purpose of this work is investigate research on how/why/when emotions play a role in the alleviation of suffering
Harder, L. M. S. (in submission). The Revolving Door: Learned Helplessness and Burnout in Human Services.