OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of British Journal of Clinical Psychology is 1. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Sensitivity to being betrayed and betraying others in obsessive compulsive disorder and depression	725
A comprehensive group‐based cognitive behavioural treatment for blood‐injection‐injury phobia	99
Treatment experiences of male and female youths with eating disorders	56
Conflicted or close: Which relationships to the deceased are associated with loss‐related psychopathology?	56
Effect of compassion‐focused therapy on self‐criticism and self‐soothing: A meta‐analysis	50
COVID‐19 and mental health in the UK: Depression, anxiety and insomnia and their associations with persistent physical symptoms and risk and vulnerability factors	45
Effects of social anxiety and self‐schemas on the impact and meaningfulness of positive versus negative social autobiographical memories	28
Associations between symptoms of prolonged grief disorder and depression and suicidal ideation	27
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Validation of a transdiagnostic measure of fears of recurrence and progression about mental health conditions	23
Emotion regulation flexibility and psychosis: A longitudinal study disentangling components of flexibility in psychosis‐proneness	22
Self‐compassion as a mediator of the relationship between childhood sexual abuse and psychotic symptoms in clinical and non‐clinical groups	22
Aversive well‐being comparisons in dysphoria and the role of brooding rumination	19
Are dysfunctional attitudes elevated and linked to mood in bipolar disorder? A systematic review and meta‐analysis	18
Engagement with services in Black African and Caribbean people with psychosis: The role of social networks, illness perceptions, internalized stigma, and perceived discrimination	18
Heterogeneous experiences of people with bipolar disorder during euthymia: Profiles of global remission and personal recovery	17
Global prevalence of depression and elevated depressive symptoms among adolescents: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	17
Differences in the diagnosis and treatment decisions for children in care compared to their peers: An experimental study on post‐traumatic stress disorder	17
mHealth and technology innovations for anxiety and OC spectrum disorders	16
Editorial acknowledgement	16
A new network analysis model in anorexia nervosa patients based on self‐reported eating disorder symptoms, psychological distress, and cognitive flexibility	15
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A single‐session feedback training modifies interpretation bias in individuals with high social anxiety: A randomized controlled trial	13
Mediators of negative content and voice‐related distress in a diverse sample of clinical and non‐clinical voice‐hearers	13

Aspirational leaders help us change: Ingroup prototypicality enables effective group psychotherapy leadership	13
Screening for psychosis risk in primary mental health care services – Implementation, prevalence and recovery trajectories	13
Cumulative sociodemographic disadvantage partially mediates associations between childhood trauma and schizotypy	13
Editorial acknowledgement	12
More than Body Appearance! Improving body image in young women through a functionality‐focused intervention combined with psychoeducation: A randomized controlled trial	12
Generality or specificity? Examining the mechanism of the transdiagnostic associations between different aspects of emotion dysregulation and various anxiety‐related disorders	12
The delayed, durable effect of expressive writing on depression, anxiety and stress: A meta‐analytic review of studies with long‐term follow‐ups	12
The relationship between health worry, work distress, and affective symptoms during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The mediating role of hopelessness and helplessness	12
Perceived locus of control for clutter: Reported reasons for clutter in adults with and without hoarding symptoms	11
Improving access to psychological therapies: Analysis of effects associated with remote provision during COVID‐19	11
Social anxiety and accumulation of status loss events: The role of adulthood experiences	10
Effectiveness of a transdiagnostic emotion regulation training in an at‐risk sample: a randomized‐controlled trial of group‐based training versus self‐help bibliotherapy	10
Predictive modelling of stress, anxiety and depression: A network analysis and machine learning study	10
Earthquake exposure, cognitive integration, and psychiatric symptoms in bereavement: A moderated mediation with fulfilling daily activities	9
The role of racial discrimination in medical care: A secondary analysis of the effect of culturally tailored, internet‐delivered CBT for insomnia in Black women	9
The enhancing effect of social reward on inhibitory control in smokers: Evidence from behaviour and ERP studies	9
An investigation of the dual continua model of mental health in the context of eating disorder symptomatology using latent profile analysis	9
The relationship between repetitive negative thinking, sleep disturbance, and subjective fatigue in women with Generalized Anxiety Disorder	9
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Factorial invariance of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Fifth Edition, across the UK, US and Australia & New Zealand	9
‘School‐based screen‐and‐treat’: An effective blueprint for expediating access to care in children experiencing PTSD following disasters	9
The antecedents and consequences of stereotype threat in Parkinson's disease	9
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Fighting against self‐stigma in adults with self‐reported diagnosis of OCD: A single‐arm pilot study using a mobile app‐based intervention	8
Predictors of dropout in self‐guided internet‐delivered cognitive behaviour therapy for obsessive‐compulsive disorder: An exploratory study	8
Improving access to psychological intervention in low‐middle income settings: Results from a waitlist‐controlled, proof‐of‐concept trial of the MemFlex intervention for trauma‐ex	8
A preliminary study of factors associated with accommodation of obsessive‐compulsive symptoms by romantic partners	8
Sex and intelligence quotient differences in age of diagnosis among youth with attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder	7
Internet videoconferencing delivered cognitive behaviour therapy for generalized anxiety disorder: A randomized controlled trial	7
Video feedback parent‐infant intervention for mothers experiencing enduring difficulties in managing emotions and relationships: A randomised controlled feasibility trial	7
The association between maternal perinatal mental health and perfectionism: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	7
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The roles of coalitional threat and safety in paranoia: A network approach	7
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Threat, safety, safeness and social safeness 30 years on: Fundamental dimensions and distinctions for mental health and well‐being	6
Emotion regulation and psychopathology: Investigating differential associations between emotion regulation skills and psychological symptoms using a network approach	6
Access to best‐evidenced mental health support for care‐experienced young people: Learnings from the implementation of cognitive therapy for PTSD	6
Home‐based video assessment of children's autism‐related behaviours: Psychometric analysis and linkages with parental responsiveness and context	6
The influence of attachment style on support and feedback seeking and depression severity among mothers during the COVID‐19 pandemic	6
Sleep dysfunction in social anxiety disorder	6
Affective and cognitive theory of mind in posttraumatic stress, major depressive, and somatic symptom disorders: Association with childhood trauma	6
Associations between transient and chronic loneliness, and depression, in the understanding society study	6
Examining the generality and specificity of gender moderation in obsessive compulsive beliefs: Stacked prediction by correspondence analysis	5
Understanding the relationships between parenting, attachment, schemas and psychosis: A serial mediation analysis	5
Toward a causal link between attachment styles and mental health during the COVID‐19 pandemic	5
Is your pain my pain? A study exploring the relation between pain sensitivity, pain thresholds and empathy for somatic and psychological pain	5
Patient experiences of behavioural therapy for bipolar depression: A qualitative study	5
Components of emotion regulation flexibility and psychosis: The association between psychosis‐proneness and context sensitivity	5
How etiological beliefs contribute to the structure of depression symptom networks	5

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A preliminary investigation of the relationships between attachment insecurity, fear of compassion, and OCD severity	5
Psychological well‐being in persons with dementia: The role of caregiver expressed emotion	5
Characterization and interrelationships of theory of mind, socially competitive emotions and affective empathy in bipolar disorder	5
Feared self and morality in obsessive‐compulsive phenomena	5
Exploring the association between social behaviour, trust, and its neural correlates in first episode psychosis patients and in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis	4
Trauma in the courtroom: The role of prior trauma exposure and mental health on stress and emotional responses in jurors	4
Comparing survival rates for clusters of depressive symptoms found by Network analysis' community detection algorithms: Results from a prospective population‐based study among 9774 cancer survivors fr	4
Using machine learning to increase access to and engagement with trauma‐focused interventions for posttraumatic stress disorder	4
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A narrative review of factors affecting memory confidence in the context of compulsive checking: A search for evidence‐based potential therapeutic targets to improve memory confidence	4
‘Not my mess’?: How do supporters of individuals with hoarding difficulties rate the quality of the support they offer?	4
Schematic beliefs, negative affect and paranoia in at‐risk youth	3
Implementing therapist‐guided internet‐delivered cognitive behaviour therapy for obsessive–compulsive disorder in the UK’s IAPT programme: A pilot trial	3
How does insecure attachment lead to paranoia? A systematic critical review of cognitive, affective, and behavioural mechanisms	3
Parenting and psychosis: An experience sampling methodology study investigating the inter‐relationship between stress from parenting and positive psychotic symptoms	3
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A pilot study of a brief and scalable psychosocial intervention for children and adolescents following disasters	3
Acknowledging religion in cognitive behavioural therapy: The effect on alliance, treatment expectations and credibility in a video‐vignette study	3
Negative interpretation bias and repetitive negative thinking as mechanisms in the association between insomnia and depression in young adults	3
Interpersonal matching of autistic trait levels in typically developed individuals is associated with spontaneous gaze following and initiation during face‐to‐face social interaction	3
Training emotion recognition in depression—An experimental study	3
Trauma and social pathways to psychosis: Examining the role of attachment, social rank and dissociation in a clinical sample	3
The impact of anxiety and intolerance of uncertainty on climate change distress, policy support, and pro‐environmental behaviour	2
Epistemic injustice amongst clinical and non‐clinical voice‐hearers: A qualitative thematic analysis study	2
A case series study of compassion‐focused therapy for distressing experiences in psychosis	2
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Applying behaviour change theory to understand the barriers to implementing routine outcome monitoring	2
Developmental profiles of schizotypy in the general population: A record linkage study of Australian children aged 11–12 years	2
Cognitive and social cognition deficits in Huntington’s disease differ between the prodromal and the manifest stages of the condition: A scoping review of recent evidence	2
Fluctuations in proximity seeking and paranoia	2
Specificity of cost and probability biases in social anxiety: Comparing status and belongingness threats	2
Using sleep to enhance exposure treatment for anxious children: A pilot study	2
Initial evaluation of a therapist‐supported online cognitive therapy self‐help for patients with taboo obsessions	2
Hooked on a memory: How rumination about past positive events might contribute to grandiose ideas?	2
Reasons for seeking internet‐delivered treatment for individuals with obsessive‐compulsive disorder	2
Pathways from developmental vulnerabilities in early childhood to schizotypy in middle childhood	2
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Evaluation of an adapted version of the International Trauma Questionnaire for use by people with intellectual disabilities	2
The ‘revolving door’ of mental illness: A meta‐analysis and systematic review of current versus lifetime rates of psychological disorders	2
Post‐traumatic stress disorder and major depression among frontline healthcare staff working during the COVID‐19 pandemic	1
Listening quality leads to greater working alliance and well‐being: Testing a social identity model of working alliance	1
Bouldering psychotherapy is not inferior to cognitive behavioural therapy in the group treatment of depression: A randomized controlled trial	1
Imagining Futures: Evaluation of a blended programme of dialectical behaviour therapy and the creative arts for young women with a history of self‐harm	1
A systematic review and meta‐ethnography to explore people's experiences of psychotherapy for self‐harm	1
Group CBT for men with intellectual disabilities and/or autism who have harmful sexual behaviour	1
Predicting optimal treatment allocation for cognitive analytic‐guided self‐help versus cognitive behavioural‐guided self‐help	1
Implicit associations with non‐suicidal self‐injury: Examination in a clinical sample by borderline personality symptomatology	1
Experiences of imagery in obsessive‐compulsive disorder: An interpretative phenomenological analysis	1
Organizational perspectives on outdoor talking therapy: Towards a position of ‘environmental safe uncertainty’	1
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Childhood trauma in children at familial high risk of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder: A longitudinal study. The Danish High Risk and Resilience Study – VIA 7 and VIA 11	1
Can attachment predict core and comorbid symptoms of attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder beyond executive functions and emotion regulation?	1
Early intervention in post‐traumatic stress disorder without exposure to trauma memories using internet‐delivered cognitive therapy: A pilot case series	1
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Acceptability of internet‐delivered cognitive behavioural therapy for adults with symptoms of obsessive‐compulsive disorder: A meta‐analysis	1
A replication and extension of bifactor modelling of perseverative thought in an at‐risk community sample: Exploring sex differences in the structure of PT	1
A longitudinal investigation of COVID‐19 pandemic experiences and mental health among university students	1
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Applying the cultural adaption framework to the Early Youth Engagement (EYE‐2) approach to early intervention in psychosis	1
“When my mind hurts, my body hurts”: Complex PTSD and chronic physical health conditions—A qualitative study exploring the factors contributing to their relationship	1
Exploring the roles of compassion and post‐traumatic stress disorder on global distress after sexual trauma	1
The development and validation of the Death Anxiety Beliefs and Behaviours Scale	1
Self‐compassion promotes social safeness in patients with eating disorders: A 12‐week longitudinal study	1
Psychometric properties of the Child Anxiety and Depression Life Interference Scale – Young Adult version	1
Emotion‐related impulsivity factors and intolerance of uncertainty are uniquely associated with interpersonal‐psychological risk factors for suicide	1
Situational, emotional, and individual dispositions to weight gain in people with hoarding problems	1
‘Faking it’: Exploring adolescent perceptions of depression (in)authenticity and ‘attention seeking’	1
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The key components of a clinical psychology formulation: A consensus study	1
Addressing anhedonia to increase depression treatment engagement	1
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Loneliness and mental health in children and adolescents with pre‐existing mental health problems: A rapid systematic review	1
Depression predicts emotion acceptance beliefs in early adolescence: A longitudinal investigation	1
Reappraisal, social support, and parental burnout	1