OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Group Psychotherapy is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Focused Group Analytic Psychotherapy: An Integration of Clinical Experience and Research	11
Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Group Therapy!	11
Predicting Change in Emotional Distress from Language Characteristics of Group Psychodynamic Therapy for Perfectionism: An Empirical Case Study	8
REACH Forgiveness: A Narrative Analysis of Group Effectiveness	8
Editor’s Note	7
Spirituality, Security, Compassion, and Play: Innovative Ways Group Psychotherapy Addresses Human Suffering	7
A Commentary on “Contemporary Theories of Group Psychotherapy: A Systems Approach to the Group-as-a-Whole”	6
Editor’s Note	6
When a Group Therapist Has Cancer: Therapist Self-Disclosure and Countertransference	5
An Open Group for Patients with Various Chronic Illnesses: A Qualitative Case Evaluation	5
A Psychoeducational CBT-based Group Intervention (“Drop It”) for Repetitive Negative Thinking: Theoretical Concepts and Treatment Processes	4
When Chinese Culture Encounters Western Interpersonal Group Psychotherapy	4
Group Cohesion in Psychoeducational Groups with Latinos: Examining Cultural Correlates	3
Exploring Pain-Severity and Psychological-Flexibility Trajectories During Group-Based Psychotherapy for Chronic Pain	3
A Commentary on “Clinical Practice Guidelines for Group Psychotherapy”	3
A Commentary on “Attending to Diversity in Group Psychotherapy: An Ethical Imperative”	3
Men’s Responses to Anger Management Group Practices in Türkiye	3
A Commentary on “Difficult Patients: Their Construction in Group Therapy”	3
The Development and Feasibility of a Novel Group Intervention to Support Helping Professionals in Metabolizing Suffering and Engaging Strengths: The CHRYSALIS Program	3
Mediation Effects of Group Cohesion in Group-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Youth Anxiety Disorders	2
Online Training Process Groups for Therapists: A Proposed Model	2
Editorial: Thank You	2
Is Virtual Group Therapy an Effective Alternative to In-Person Group Therapy for Patients with Early Psychosis?	2
A Case Study of Developing a Narrative Group Intervention to Address the Impact of Anti-Asian Racism	2
Finding Your Self in Group	2

Dreams – the Alchemy of Groups: Jungian Reflections on Group Work	2
A Qualitative Study of Turkish Counseling Students’ Experiences in a Dual Role as Group Member and Leader in a Supervised Training Group	2
Group Cognitive–Behavioral Therapy in a Sample of Dutch Intimate Partner Violence Perpetrators: Development of a Coding Manual for Therapist Interventions	2
When Your Heart Goes Out to the Child: Reflections on Therapist-Initiated Termination of Treatment in Child and Youth Therapy Groups	1
A Group Therapist with Parkinson’s Disease Facilitating Parkinson’s-Related Support Groups: Reflections and Practical Strategies	1
Experiential Group Psychotherapy Training with Undergraduate Students in Spain	1
The Future of Group Therapy Is Bright!	1
Psycho-Social Explorations of Trauma, Exclusion and Violence: Un-housed Minds and Inhospitable Environments	1
Online Teaching Self-efficacy of Group Counseling Instructors during the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
Therapeutic Mentalization in Group Therapy: Development and Preliminary Validation of a Measure of Experienced Mentalization	1
A Pilot Study of Solution-Focused Goal-Settings Group Counseling on Adolescent Students	1
Cognitive Experiential Group Therapy: An Innovative Blending of Two Therapeutic Modalities	1
This is Your Pilot Speaking. Buckle Your Seatbelts, We Expect Turbulence Ahead	1
Systems-Centered Training: An Illustrated Guide for Applying a Theory of Living Human Systems	1
Psychodynamic Group Therapy for Personality Disorders	1
Group Analysis Throughout the Life Cycle: Foulkes Revisited from a Group Attachment and Developmental Perspective	1
Feedback-informed Group Treatment: A Qualitative Study of the Experiences and Needs of Patients and Therapists	0
The Unconscious Rules in Love: Our Past, Our Future and a Resolution	0
Therapeutic Groups to Help People Forgive Others: A Case Study	0
Looking at the Therapeutic Change Through a Textual Analysis: Evidence from an Online Group Analytic Treatment	0
Aggression, the Often Maligned Life Force Crucial in Healing Internalized Misogyny: Implications for Group Psychotherapy	0
Spiritually Integrated Group Psychotherapy for First Responders: Forgiveness, Trauma, and Alcohol Use	0
A Pilot Evaluation of a Therapeutically Applied Tabletop Role Playing Game Group Therapy Among Veterans	0
Online Group Trauma Therapy in a Community Setting: Group Climate and Satisfaction in Relation to Treatment Response	0
An Uncontrolled Case Study of a Tabletop Role-playing Therapy Group With Difficult-to-engage Patients	0
Alliance and Cohesion Predicting Outcome in Group Psychotherapy: A Structural Equation Model Meta-Analysis	0
A Commentary on “A Therapist’s Guide to Issues of Intimacy and Hostility Viewed as Group-Level Phenomena”	0
Remote but Together: Online Group Supervision During the COVID-19 Pandemic	0
The Ethics of Group Psychotherapy: Principles and Practical Strategies	0
From Crowd Psychology to the Dynamics of Large Groups: Historical, Theoretical and Practical Considerations *From Crowd Psychology to the Dynamics of Large Groups: Hist*	0
Members’ Feedback After a Spiritual Group Psychotherapy for Inpatient, Residential, and Intensive Treatment (SPIRIT)	0
Improvements in Quality of Life and Readiness for Change After Participating in an Eating Disorder Psychoeducation Group: A Pilot Study	0
The Achieving Success Everyday Group Counseling Model: Providing Social Support for Homeless Students* in School Settings	0
Teletherapy Groups for Complex Trauma: Probing Patient Experiences	0
Beyond the Here-and-Now: Time, Enactment and the “Untelling” in Group Psychotherapy	0
Blind Spots in Group Psychotherapy: “Why Don’t They See Them?”	0
Transference and Countertransference from an Attachment Perspective: A Guide for Professional Caregivers	0
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Clients in Mixed-Ability Psychotherapy Groups: Therapist Perspectives and Practical Insights	0
Happy Anniversary International Journal of Group Psychotherapy : Let’s Celebrate All the Places You Went and Will Go!	0
Associations of Group Size with Cohesion and Clinical Outcomes in Group Psychotherapy: A Systematic Review	0
Transforming Mattering in Group Psychotherapy	0
Attending to Diversity in Group Psychotherapy: An Ethical Imperative	0
Large Group Identity, Psychological Borders, and Unofficial Diplomacy	0
Facing the Dilemma of Forced Termination: What to Consider and Address When Removing a Member from a Group	0
The Power of Group Attachment: John Bowlby Revisited From a Group-Analytic Perspective	0
Fostering Ubuntu in Black Adolescents: Group Counseling as a Pathway to Advocacy	0
On the Psychology of “Mattering” in Group Psychotherapy: A Modern Psychoanalytic Perspective	0
A Therapist’s Guide to Issues of Intimacy and Hostility Viewed as Group-Level Phenomena	0
Projective Identification in Dyads and Groups	0
Difficult Patients: Their Construction in Group Therapy	0

The Use of Existential Groups in Mental Health Care: A Scoping Review	0
The Use of Self-Disclosure in Group Therapy: Engaging Social Enactments in Modern Group Treatment	0
Security-enhancement Processes within Group Settings: Revising Insecure Working Models of Attachment During Playful Group Interactions	0
Group Cohesion in Experiential Growth Groups: A Multilevel Growth Analysis	0
Effects of Group Psychotherapy for Nonsuicidal Self-Injury: A Meta-Analysis	0
Effectiveness of Eight-Session Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Classes for Reducing Symptoms of Anxiety, Depression, and Emotional Dysregulation in a Transdiagnostic Population	0
Therapeutic Alliance and Group Cohesion Across Telehealth Delivery of Mentalizing-focused Parenting Groups	0
A Psychometric Analysis of the Patterns of Adapted Learning Scales (PALS) with a Group Psychotherapy Patient Sample: A Measure of Motivation	0
An Investigation of a Community-Based Phase-I Online Group Trauma Intervention	0
Telehealth Psychoeducational Groups With Latinx College Students: Findings From Focus Groups	0
CBT Meets Process: Assimilative Integration with Reference to Group Psychotherapy	0
Self-Development in Group Therapy with Neurodivergent Youth	0
Psychodrama Group Therapy for Excoriation Disorder: A Randomized Controlled Trial with a Bayesian Analysis	0
In Memoriam and Unedited Email from Robert Klein	0
Culture, Gender, and Aggression in Psychodynamic Group Therapy: A Case of a Male-Only Group with Female Leaders in Iran	0
Treatment for Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors, An Integrative Psychodynamic Approach	0
We Deserve Space: A Pilot Outcomes Study of a Group Psychotherapy Intervention for Internalized Weight Stigma	0
The Work of Overcoming Racism/White Supremacy	0
Patients’ Perspective on the Important Therapeutic Factors in Integrated Systemic Group Therapy: A Phenomenological Approach	0
Sibling Relations and the Horizontal Axis in Theory and Practice: Contemporary Group Analysis, Psychoanalysis and Organizational Consultancy	0
Disclosure and Empathy in a Group Teletherapy Setting	0
The Bright Future of Group Therapy: A Psychiatrist’s Perspective	0
Self-efficacy Development of Graduate Student Leaders in Facilitating Groups for International Students	0
A Commentary on “Projective Identification in Dyads and Groups”	0
Clinical Practice Guidelines for Group Psychotherapy	0
Compassion Focused Therapy for Groups: Transdiagnostic Treatment for Turbulent Times	0
Contemporary Theories of Group Psychotherapy: A Systems Approach to the Group-as-a-Whole	0