Both findings could be explained by conscientiousness acting as a mediator between assessment performance and professionalism ratings.
One suggestion for this support was that in times of conflict between service users and carers, an independent and qualified mediator could make assessments about carer involvement and advise accordingly.
To investigate potential mediators two temporary assessments are conducted, each after 5 therapy sessions.
During the sessions in which mediation was provided (i.e. the DAs and the transfer assessments), the mediator would interrupt at different points to ask questions, offer suggestions and provide help when necessary.
It is therefore more appropriate to examine the specific processes and mechanisms of therapy by other means, such as the assessment of treatment fidelity and the assessment of mediator variables that we included in the design.
Potential mediators are assessed using the established measures that are collected after the recorded conversation and before the outcome assessment.
Extending the design of this study with a control group and regular assessments of mediators could provide a useful design to investigate processes through which EMDR works to improve trauma-related outcomes.
Mediator and Mediation Trainer.
Apart from the hypothesized impact of overconfidence on risk assessment through the mediator of risk awareness, we furthermore assume that overconfidence might be linked directly to an overly positive assessment of risk occurrence probabilities and risk impacts.
We assume that project managers' risk awareness serves as a mediator between overconfidence and risk assessment.
