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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Global prevalence of depression and elevated depressive symptoms among adolescents: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	248
Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) in the United Kingdom: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of 10‐years of practice‐based evidence	94
Loneliness and mental health in children and adolescents with pre‐existing mental health problems: A rapid systematic review	46
Perceived social support, loneliness, and hope during the COVID‐19 Pandemic: Testing a mediating model in the UK, USA, and Israel	43
Investigating the prevalence of anxiety and depression during the first COVID‐19 lockdown in the United Kingdom: Systematic review and meta‐analyses	38
A longitudinal investigation of COVID‐19 pandemic experiences and mental health among university students	33
A meta‐analysis of the effects of social‐cognitive training in schizophrenia: The role of treatment characteristics and study quality	28
Scared of compassion: Fear of compassion in anxiety, mood, and non‐clinical groups	28
The effectiveness of schema therapy for patients with anxiety disorders, OCD, or PTSD: A systematic review and research agenda	28
Prevention programmes for children of parents with a mood/anxiety disorder: Systematic review of existing programmes and meta‐analysis of their efficacy	21
Child abuse and suicidality in the context of the Interpersonal Psychological Theory of Suicide: A network analysis	20
Shame, guilt, and suicidal thoughts: The interaction matters	20
Regulating digital therapeutics for mental health: Opportunities, challenges, and the essential role of psychologists	19
The revised Psychosis Attachment Measure: Measuring disorganized attachment	17
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders: A feasibility and proof of concept study	17
Post‐traumatic stress disorder and major depression among frontline healthcare staff working during the COVID‐19 pandemic	16
Addressing anhedonia to increase depression treatment engagement	15
Effectiveness of stress control large group psychoeducation for anxiety and depression: Systematic review and meta‐analysis	15
How does insecure attachment lead to paranoia? A systematic critical review of cognitive, affective, and behavioural mechanisms	13
Evaluating the feasibility and acceptability of a mobile‐based health technology for smoking cessation: Mobile Anxiety Sensitivity Program	12
Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) has potential but is not sufficient: How can it better meet the range of primary care mental health needs?	12
Group acceptance and commitment therapy for patients and caregivers in psychosis services: Feasibility of training and a preliminary randomized controlled evaluation	12
Reappraisal, social support, and parental burnout	11
Randomized controlled trial of social cognition and interaction training compared to befriending group	11
Reducing dropout in acceptance and commitment therapy, mindfulness‐based cognitive therapy, and problem‐solving therapy for chronic pain and cancer patients using motivational interviewing	11

The relationship between rumination and NSSI: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	11
Personality factors and vulnerability to post‐traumatic stress responses after childbirth	10
Why would I want to be more self‐compassionate? A qualitative study of the pros and cons to cultivating self‐compassion in individuals with anorexia nervosa	10
Emotion network density is a potential clinical marker for anxiety and depression: Comparison of ecological momentary assessment and daily diary	10
Italian adolescents’ adjustment before and during the coronavirus disease 2019: A comparison between mothers’ and adolescents’ perception	9
Schema therapy with exposure and response prevention for the treatment of chronic anxiety with comorbid personality disorder	9
Deconstructing the relationships between self‐esteem and paranoia in early psychosis: an experience sampling study	9
The relationship between health worry, work distress, and affective symptoms during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The mediating role of hopelessness and helplessness	9
The effectiveness of brief cognitive analytic therapy for anxiety and depression: A quasi‐experimental case—control study	9
ICD‐11 ‘mixed depressive and anxiety disorder’ is clinical rather than sub‐clinical and more common than anxiety and depression in the general population	9
The relationship between repetitive negative thinking, sleep disturbance, and subjective fatigue in women with Generalized Anxiety Disorder	9
Bouldering psychotherapy is not inferior to cognitive behavioural therapy in the group treatment of depression: A randomized controlled trial	9
Exploring links between social identity, emotion regulation, and loneliness in those with and without a history of mental illness	8
Differences in the diagnosis and treatment decisions for children in care compared to their peers: An experimental study on post‐traumatic stress disorder	8
Building an emotion regulation recommender algorithm for socially anxious individuals using contextual bandits	8
Aversive well‐being comparisons in dysphoria and the role of brooding rumination	8
Evaluation of a parent‐led cognitive behaviour therapy programme in routine clinical practice: A controlled trial	7
Gender differences in avoidance and repetitive negative thinking following symptom provocation in men and women with spider phobia	7
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	7
Adult mental health service engagement with patients who are parents: Evidence from 15 English mental health trusts	7
Fear of illness recurrence and mental health anxiety in people recovering from psychosis and common mental health problems	7
The efficacy of a transdiagnostic emotion regulation skills training in the treatment of binge‐eating disorder—Results from a randomized controlled trial	7
Managing emotions in psychosis: Evaluation of a brief DBT‐informed skills group for individuals with psychosis in routine community services	7
Affective and cognitive theory of mind in posttraumatic stress, major depressive, and somatic symptom disorders: Association with childhood trauma	7
Sleep problems and worrying precede psychotic symptoms during an online intervention for psychosis	6
Epistemic injustice amongst clinical and non‐clinical voice‐hearers: A qualitative thematic analysis study	6
‘Faking it’: Exploring adolescent perceptions of depression (in)authenticity and ‘attention seeking’	6
Attachment styles moderate Theory of Mind differences between persons with schizophrenia, first‐degree relatives and controls	6
Professional perspectives on applying the NICE and British Psychological Society Guidelines for the management of Behaviours that Challenge in dementia care: an e‐survey	6
Investigating associations between hoarding symptoms and affective and cognitive empathy	6
Organizational perspectives on outdoor talking therapy: Towards a position of ‘environmental safe uncertainty’	6
Understanding individuals’ subjective experiences of negative symptoms of schizophrenia: A qualitative study	6
Understanding the experience of rumination and worry: A descriptive qualitative survey study	6
Developmental profiles of schizotypy in the general population: A record linkage study of Australian children aged 11–12 years	5
The development and validation of the Death Anxiety Beliefs and Behaviours Scale	5
Can attachment predict core and comorbid symptoms of attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder beyond executive functions and emotion regulation?	5
Exploring service user and family perspectives of a Culturally adapted Family Intervention (CaFI) for African‐Caribbean people with psychosis: A qualitative study	5
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	5
How technology can enhance treatment: A scoping review of clinical interventions for anxiety and obsessive‐compulsive spectrum disorders	5
Examining the generality and specificity of gender moderation in obsessive compulsive beliefs: Stacked prediction by correspondence analysis	5
Parenting and psychosis: An experience sampling methodology study investigating the inter‐relationship between stress from parenting and positive psychotic symptoms	5
Development of a cognitive bias modification intervention for anxiety disorders in primary care	5
Situational context influences the degree of hostile attributions made by individuals with schizophrenia or autism spectrum disorder	4
Exposure to suicide in the family and suicidal ideation in Portugal during the Covid‐19 pandemic: The mediating role of unbearable psychache	4
The mediating role of tolerance for psychological pain in the relationship of childhood trauma to suicidal ideation in individuals with a substance use disorder	4
A comprehensive group‐based cognitive behavioural treatment for blood‐injection‐injury phobia	4
Using supervised machine learning on neuropsychological data to distinguish OCD patients with and without sensory phenomena from healthy controls	4
The delayed, durable effect of expressive writing on depression, anxiety and stress: A meta‐analytic review of studies with long‐term follow‐ups	4
Applying behaviour change theory to understand the barriers to implementing routine outcome monitoring	4
Conflicted or close: Which relationships to the deceased are associated with loss‐related psychopathology?	4

Ensuring that the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme does what it says on the tin	4
Toward a causal link between attachment styles and mental health during the COVID‐19 pandemic	4
Effect of compassion‐focused therapy on self‐criticism and self‐soothing: A meta‐analysis	4
Depression predicts emotion acceptance beliefs in early adolescence: A longitudinal investigation	3
Video feedback parent‐infant intervention for mothers experiencing enduring difficulties in managing emotions and relationships: A randomised controlled feasibility trial	3
Validation of the Child version of the Perseverative Thinking Questionnaire of repetitive negative thinking in young people with diagnosed depressive and anxiety disorders	3
The effectiveness of third wave cognitive behavioural therapies for children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	3
Fear of compassion is associated with treatment ambivalence and negative expectations for treatment in people with anxiety	3
Components of emotion regulation flexibility and psychosis: The association between psychosis‐proneness and context sensitivity	3
Associations between transient and chronic loneliness, and depression, in the understanding society study	3
The association between maternal perinatal mental health and perfectionism: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	3
Associations between symptoms of prolonged grief disorder and depression and suicidal ideation	3
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	3
Improving access to psychological therapies: Analysis of effects associated with remote provision during COVID‐19	3
Cumulative sociodemographic disadvantage partially mediates associations between childhood trauma and schizotypy	3
Initial evaluation of a therapist‐supported online cognitive therapy self‐help for patients with taboo obsessions	3
A systematic review of measures of adult disorganized attachment	3
Effects of soothing images and soothing sounds on mood and well‐being	3
Do they really care? Specificity of social support issues in hoarding disorder and obsessive–compulsive disorder	3
Sensitivity to being betrayed and betraying others in obsessive compulsive disorder and depression	3
Is reduced social competence a mechanism linking elevated autism spectrum symptoms with increased risk for social anxiety?	3
Unrealistic pessimism and obsessive‐compulsive symptoms during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Two longitudinal studies	3
Beliefs about emotions predict psychological stress related to somatic symptoms	2
Relating behaviours and therapeutic actions during AVATAR therapy dialogue: An observational study	2
Episodic future thinking together with observational learning benefits prospective memory in high‐functioning Korsakoff’s syndrome patients	2
Relationship between psychopathic traits and performance on the Mini Social Cognition and Emotional Assessment in incarcerated males	2
Moving beyond basic emotions in Parkinson’s disease	2
Frequency and impact of childhood sexual and physical abuse on people using IAPT services	2
Conducting a consensus conference to design a psychology service model for acute mental health wards	2
Prevalence of probable eating disorders and associated risk factors: An analysis of the Northern Ireland Youth Wellbeing Survey using the SCOFF	2
Implementing therapist‐guided internet‐delivered cognitive behaviour therapy for obsessive–compulsive disorder in the UK’s IAPT programme: A pilot trial	2
An investigation of the dual continua model of mental health in the context of eating disorder symptomatology using latent profile analysis	2
Emotion‐related impulsivity and suicidal ideation: Towards a more specific model	2
Known‐groups and convergent validity of the theory of mind task battery in children with autism spectrum disorder	2
Computer‐delivered behavioural activation and approach‐avoidance training in major depression: Proof of concept and initial outcomes	2
A multi‐method examination of the link between obsessive‐compulsive symptomatology and emotion‐related impulsivity	2
Group Cognitive Behavioural Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASP) for persistently depressed outpatients: a retrospective chart review	2
A systematic review and meta‐ethnography to explore people's experiences of psychotherapy for self‐harm	2
The costs and benefits of practice‐based evidence: Correcting some misunderstandings about the 10‐year meta‐analysis of IAPT studies	2
Characterization and interrelationships of theory of mind, socially competitive emotions and affective empathy in bipolar disorder	2
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Situation‐specific outcomes (Home Situations Questionnaire) in a randomized controlled trial of individual versus group parent training for children with Hyperkinetic Disorder/Attention‐deficit Hypera	1
The effect of medication and question wording on self‐reported symptoms and their accuracy in young adults with attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder	1
Pathways from developmental vulnerabilities in early childhood to schizotypy in middle childhood	1
Fluctuations in proximity seeking and paranoia	1
Self‐compassion as a mediator of the relationship between childhood sexual abuse and psychotic symptoms in clinical and non‐clinical groups	1
Treatment experiences of male and female youths with eating disorders	1
Attachment‐focused iMAgery therapy for PSychosis (A‐iMAPS): A case series targeting psychosis‐related trauma	1
The correlates of social phobia in OCD: Findings from a large clinical sample	1
Path to practising self‐compassion in a tertiary eating disorders treatment program: A qualitative analysis	1
Is alcohol use associated with psychological treatment attendance and clinical outcomes?	1
A randomized clinical trial of a gamified app for the treatment of perfectionism	1
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Mediators of negative content and voice‐related distress in a diverse sample of clinical and non‐clinical voice‐hearers	1
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The association between OCD and Shame: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	1
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No evidence that implicit identification with mental illness predicts recovery	1
Applying the cultural adaption framework to the Early Youth Engagement (EYE‐2) approach to early intervention in psychosis	1
Cross‐sectional direct and indirect relationships between the corrupted feared self and obsessive–compulsive symptoms in a clinical sample: The role of mental contamination	1
Self‐critical perfectionism, dependency and entropy during cognitive behavioural therapy for depression	1
Criticism and accommodation are associated with treatment concerns in close others to those with anxiety	1
Effortful control moderates relationships between worry and symptoms of depression and anxious arousal	1
Negative interpretations of ambiguous ‘psychosis‐like’ and ‘anxiety‐like’ experiences in recovery from psychosis or anxiety	1
Suppression and acceptance in unipolar depression: Short‐term and long‐term effects on emotional responding	1
Illusory social agents within and beyond voices: A computational linguistics analysis of the experience of psychosis	1
A case series study of compassion‐focused therapy for distressing experiences in psychosis	1
Examination of a brief computerized Cognitive Anxiety Sensitivity intervention on obsessive–compulsive symptoms	1
In the moment social experiences and perceptions of children with social anxiety disorder: A qualitative study	1
The predictive value of patient, therapist, and in‐session ratings of motivational factors early in remote cognitive behavioural therapy for severe health anxiety	1
Preliminary evidence for the efficacy of single‐session transcranial direct current stimulation to the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex for reducing subclinical paranoia in healthy individuals	1
The antecedents and consequences of stereotype threat in Parkinson's disease	1
Social anxiety and accumulation of status loss events: The role of adulthood experiences	1