Psychotherapy Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Psychotherapy Research is 2. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Routine Outcome Monitoring (ROM) and Feedback: Research Review and Recommendations43
Prevalence of meditation-related adverse effects in a population-based sample in the United States39
rMEA: An R package to assess nonverbal synchronization in motion energy analysis time-series37
It's the therapist and the treatment: The structure of common therapeutic relationship factors33
Systematic review and meta-analyses of the long-term efficacy of narrative exposure therapy for adults, children and perpetrators31
Mindfulness-based interventions among people of color: A systematic review and meta-analysis27
Indirect effect of patient outcome expectation on improvement through alliance quality: A meta-analysis27
Identifying CBT non-response among OCD outpatients: A machine-learning approach22
Investigating the dose–response effect in open-ended psychotherapy22
Enhancing the effect of psychotherapy through systematic client feedback in outpatient mental healthcare: A cluster randomized trial.21
Patient alliance with the program predicts treatment outcomes whereas alliance with the therapist predicts adherence in internet-based therapy for panic disorder19
Delivering tele-chairwork: A qualitative survey of expert therapists19
Effectiveness of the Unified Protocol for transdiagnostic treatment of emotional disorders in group format in Spain: Results from a randomized controlled trial with 6-months follow-up19
Client-Identified Impacts of Helpful and Hindering Events in Psychotherapy: A Qualitative Meta-analysis18
Machine learning: A primer for psychotherapy researchers17
Strength-based methods – a narrative review and comparative multilevel meta-analysis of positive interventions in clinical settings15
What too strict a method obscures about the validity of outcome measures15
Countertransference types and their relation to rupture and repair in the alliance15
Predictors of dropout among adolescents with borderline personality disorder attending mentalization-based group treatment15
Therapists’ and patients’ experiences of using patients’ self-reported data in ongoing psychotherapy processes—A systematic review and meta-analysis of qualitative studies14
The influence of extra-therapeutic social support on the association between therapeutic bond and treatment outcome14
For whom should psychotherapy focus on problem coping? A machine learning algorithm for treatment personalization14
The therapeutic relationship in child psychotherapy: integrating the perspectives of children, parents and therapists13
Facilitating dyadic synchrony in psychotherapy sessions: Systematic review and meta-analysis12
Randomized controlled trial of Regulation Focused Psychotherapy for children: A manualized psychodynamic treatment for externalizing behaviors12
Integrating theory-based and data-driven methods to case conceptualization: A functional analysis approach with ecological momentary assessment12
“I didn’t have to look her in the eyes”—participants’ experiences of the therapeutic relationship in internet-based psychodynamic therapy for adolescent depression12
Negative experiences in psychotherapy from clients’ perspective: A qualitative meta-analysis12
Individual behavioral activation in the treatment of depression: A meta analysis11
Process-Based psychotherapy personalization: considering causality with continuous-time dynamic modeling11
Deception detection and emotion recognition: Investigating F.A.C.E. software10
Physiological activation and co-activation in an imagery-based treatment for test anxiety10
Group-based DBT skills training modules are linked to independent and additive improvements in emotion regulation in a heterogeneous outpatient sample10
Assessing beliefs about emotion generation and change: The conceptualisation, development, and validation of the Cognitive Mediation Beliefs Questionnaire (CMBQ)10
Understanding routine outcome monitoring and clinical feedback in context: Introduction to the special section10
The therapeutic effects of the therapists’ ability to pass their patients’ tests in psychotherapy10
When to disclose and to whom? examining within- and between-client moderators of therapist self disclosure-outcome associations in psychodynamic psychotherapy10
Is there an elephant in the room? A study of convergences and divergences of adult attachment measures commonly used in clinical studies10
Does the working alliance mediate the therapist competence-outcome relationship in cognitive behavior therapy for depression?10
Emotion-focused group therapy among women with premenstrual dysphoric disorder: A randomized clinical trial10
Adverse events in psychotherapy randomized controlled trials: A systematic review9
Trajectories of change in general psychopathology levels among depressed adolescents in short-term psychotherapies9
“Like a huge weight lifted off my shoulders”: Exploring young peoples’ experiences of treatment in a pilot trial of trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy9
Smaller effects matter in the psychological therapies: 25 years on from Wampold et al. (1997)9
How to manage endings in unsuccessful therapy: A qualitative comparison of youth and clinician perspectives9
Seeing the past in a new light: change in reports of childhood abuse and neglect before and after inpatient psychotherapy and its relevance for change in depression symptoms9
Multimodal affect analysis of psychodynamic play therapy8
Enhancing emotion regulation8
Change in avoidance and negative grief-related cognitions mediates treatment outcome in older adults with prolonged grief disorder8
The relationships among working alliance, group cohesion and homework engagement in group cognitive behaviour therapy for social anxiety disorder8
Clinician perceptions of nomothetic and individualized patient-reported outcome measures in measurement-based care8
Effectiveness of brief group transdiagnostic therapy for emotional disorders in primary care: A randomized controlled trial identifying predictors of outcome8
Unpacking the active ingredients of internet-based psychodynamic therapy for adolescents8
Othering refugees: Psychotherapists’ attitudes toward patients with and without a refugee background8
Race, racial matching, and cultural understanding as predictors of treatment engagement in youth mental health services8
An exploration of the relationships between patient application of CBT skills and therapeutic outcomes during a two-week CBT treatment8
Matching research and practice: Prediction of individual patient progress and dropout risk for basic routine outcome monitoring7
Comorbidity as a moderator of the differential efficacy of transdiagnostic behavior therapy and behavioral activation for affective disorders7
Hand movements that change during psychotherapy and their relation to therapeutic outcome: An analysis of individual and simultaneous movements7
Limited reparenting as a corrective emotional experience in schema therapy: A preliminary task analysis7
Some directions for research and theory on countertransference7
Treatment outcomes and patient satisfaction of a virtual partial hospital program: A mixed-method study7
Therapeutic distance in client-therapist narratives: client attachment, therapist attachment, and dyadic effects7
Working with emotion predicts sudden gains during experiential therapy for depression7
Corrective attachment episodes in attachment-based family therapy: the power of enactment7
Therapeutic relationships in cognitive behavioral therapy: Theory and recent research7
Applying precision methods to treatment selection for moderate/severe depression in person-centered experiential therapy or cognitive behavioral therapy6
Depression symptom clusters in adolescents: A latent class analysis in a clinical sample6
The effects of emotion-focused skills training on parental mental health, emotion regulation and self-efficacy: Mediating processes between parents and children6
Predicting dropout from psychological treatment using different machine learning algorithms, resampling methods, and sample sizes6
Do specific modules of cognitive behavioral therapy for depression have measurable effects on youth internalizing symptoms? An idiographic analysis6
Self-compassion in eating disorders and childhood trauma: A study of within-person effects in a randomized controlled trial6
Mentalization-enhancing therapeutic interventions in the psychotherapy of anorexia nervosa: An analysis of use and influence on patients’ mentalizing capacity6
Outcomes of brief versions of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for diagnostically heterogeneous groups in a routine care setting6
Change in reflective functioning in interpersonal psychotherapy and cognitive behavioral therapy for major depressive disorder6
Exploring the temporal associations between avoidance behavior and cognitions during the course of cognitive behavioral therapy for clients with symptoms of social anxiety disorder6
Mechanisms of change in multicomponent group-based treatment for patients suffering from medically unexplained physical symptoms6
Negative effects during multicomponent group-based treatment: A multisite study6
Drawing causal inferences from randomized controlled trials in psychotherapy research6
How qualitative methods advance the study of causation in psychotherapy research6
The person of the therapist: therapists’ personal characteristics as predictors of alliance and treatment outcomes6
Psychological symptoms, early maladaptive schemas and schema modes: predictors of the outcome of group schema therapy in patients with personality disorders6
The therapeutic alliance and dropout in cognitive behavioral therapy of depression6
Meditation, mindfulness, and acceptance methods in psychotherapy: A systematic review5
Client perspectives on psychotherapy failure5
Reconstructing dropout: Building from multiple definitions, therapist effects, and center effects5
“I am strong and I can get on with my life”: The subjective experience of recovery of patients treated for depression5
Four perspectives on traumatized youths’ therapeutic alliance: Correspondence and outcome predictions5
Predicting optimal treatment outcomes using the Personalized Advantage Index for patients with persistent somatic symptoms5
Fluctuation in the assimilation of problematic experiences: A comparison of two contrasting cases of Emotion Focused Therapy5
What if we wait? Using synthetic waiting lists to estimate treatment effects in routine outcome data5
Lessons from ten years of psychotherapy process research5
Mimicry in psychotherapy – an actor partner model of therapists’ and patients’ non-verbal behavior and its effects on the working alliance5
Development and validation of an 8-item version of the Real Relationship Inventory–Client form5
Alliance ruptures and resolutions in short-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy for adolescent depression: An empirical case study5
Mindfulness-based schema therapy and forgiveness therapy among women affected by infidelity: A randomized clinical trial5
Patient perspectives on working with preferences in psychotherapy: A consensual qualitative research study5
Misery loves company: Predictors of treatment response to a loneliness intervention5
Therapists' perception of the working alliance, real relationship and therapeutic presence in in-person therapy versus tele-therapy5
Innovative moments in recovered cases treated with the unified protocol for transdiagnostic treatment of emotional disorders5
Causality in psychotherapy research: Towards evidential pluralism5
Research evidence on psychotherapist skills and methods: Foreword and afterword5
Therapeutic relationships in cognitive behavioral therapy: Tailoring the therapeutic alliance5
Association of patients’ pre-therapy strengths and alliance in outpatient psychotherapy: A multilevel growth curve analysis5
Therapist affiliation and hostility in cognitive–behavioral therapy with and without motivational interviewing for severe generalized anxiety disorder5
Preferences for panic control treatment and panic focused psychodynamic psychotherapy for panic disorder – who chooses which and why?5
Therapist competence, homework engagement, and client characteristics in CBT for youth depression: A study of mediation and moderation in a community-based trial4
Is it me, is it you or is it both of US? Applying the social relations model to disentangle the components of the therapeutic bond4
Are some therapists better at facilitating and consolidating sudden gains than others?4
Therapist-guided internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy versus face-to-face CBT for depression/anxiety symptoms in infertile women with adjustment disorders: A randomized controlled trial4
Comparing helpful and hindering processes in good and poor outcome cases: A qualitative metasynthesis of eight Hermeneutic Single Case Efficacy Design studies4
Sparks of psychotherapeutic change: How therapists understand moments of meetings’ contribution to change in psychotherapy4
How to become a responsive therapist: A study of experiences of developing therapists4
The implications of the Dodo bird verdict for training in psychotherapy: prioritizing process observation4
Direction of dependence analysis for pre-post assessments using non-Gaussian methods: a tutorial4
Countertransference responses mediate the relationship between patients’ overall defense functioning and therapists’ interventions4
The competence development of German psychotherapy trainees: A naturalistic, longitudinal and multidimensional outcome study4
Detecting defense mechanisms from Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) transcripts using machine learning4
“If you don’t have a word for something, you may doubt whether it’s even real” – how individuals with borderline personality disorder experience change4
Relational depth from the perspective of the psychotherapy dyad: Psychometric properties of the Relational Depth Frequency Scale4
The evaluation of religious and spirituality-based therapy compared to standard treatment in mental health care: A multi-level meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials4
Modelling trajectories of change in psychopathology and well-being during eating disorder outpatient treatment4
Double trouble: Therapists with low facilitative interpersonal skills and without training have low in-session experiential processes4
Addressing interpersonal patterns in patients with personality disorders partially explains psychotherapy outcome via changes in interaction patterns: A mediation analysis4
The Dodo Bird and the need for scalable interventions in global mental health—A commentary on the 25th anniversary of Wampold et al. (1997)4
The art and science behind socratic questioning and guided discovery: a research review4
Achieving successful resolution of alliance ruptures: for whom and when?4
Feasibility of generic, short, and easy-to-use assessment of psychological distress during psychotherapy: Longitudinal measurement invariance of CORE-10 and -OM4
What makes inpatient treatment for PTSD effective? Investigating daily therapy process factors4
Client-therapist congruence in session-helpfulness ratings and its association with therapy outcomes4
A randomized controlled trial of an adapted group cognitive-behavioral therapy for burned-out teachers4
Agreement in patient-therapist alliance ratings and its relation to dropout and outcome in a large sample of cognitive behavioral therapy for panic disorder4
A mobile-based aftercare intervention to increase self-esteem in inpatients diagnosed with depression: A randomized controlled trial4
Secret-keeping in therapy by clients who are sexually attracted to children4
Enhancing working alliance through positive emotional experience: A cross-lag analysis4
Exploring Therapist Self-Efficacy Change Profiles Using Latent Growth Curve Analysis4
Empathic reflections by themselves are not effective: Meta-analysis and qualitative synthesis4
Learning from mothers who received focused parent–infant psychotherapy for the treatment of their child’s regulatory disorders4
Investigating predictors of treatment response in Dialectical Behavior Therapy for borderline personality disorder using LASSO regression3
Therapeutic alliance and clinical outcomes in teletherapy and in-person psychotherapy: A noninferiority study during the COVID-19 pandemic3
Mechanism engagement as a potential evidence-based approach to personalized treatment termination3
Quality of the therapeutic working alliance as a factor in intensive residential treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder3
Development of a brief therapist presence inventory in China using multilevel factor analysis and item response theory3
The efficacy of individual humanistic-experiential therapies for the treatment of depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials3
Predicting first session working alliances using deep learning algorithms: A proof-of-concept study for personalized psychotherapy3
Baseline overly accommodating interpersonal problems in relation to parsed alliance-outcome associations in cognitive behavioral therapy for generalized anxiety disorder3
Emotional processing during the therapy for complicated grief3
“What shall we focus on?” – A thematic analysis of what characterizes cognitive-behavior therapy sessions with high or low quality of working alliance3
Adapting brief problem-solving therapy for pregnant women experiencing depressive symptoms and intimate partner violence in rural Ethiopia3
Self-Contempt, the Working Alliance and Outcome in Treatments for Borderline Personality Disorder: An Exploratory Study3
Clients’ experiences with a Trauma-sensitive mindfulness and compassion group intervention: a first-person perspective on change and change mechanisms3
Therapist in-session feelings predict change in depressive symptoms in interpersonal and brief relational psychotherapy3
Clients’ Perceptions of Changes in Their Therapists’ Positive Regard in Transitioning from In-Person Therapy to Teletherapy3
Congruence in patient and therapist-rated alliance predicts subsequent depressive symptoms in cognitive behavioral therapy for depression3
The use of mentalization-based techniques in online psychodynamic child psychotherapy3
Observer-based and computerized measures of the patient’s mentalization in psychotherapy: A scoping review3
Direct and indirect effects of adverse and protective childhood experiences on symptom improvement in psychotherapy3
I Look at my whole body and i feel better: attentional bias, emotional and psychophysiological response by pure exposure treatment in women with obesity3
Patient motivation in group metacognitive therapy for generalized anxiety disorder3
Engaging with difficult topics and emotional experiences in psychotherapy: A study of helpful therapist acts3
Symptom change trajectories in patients with persistent somatic symptoms and their association to long-term treatment outcome3
An interdisciplinary multimodal integrative healthcare program for somatic symptom disorder, with predominant (spinal) pain3
When depressed—be mindful of and kind to yourself: Self-compassion as mediator of change in a mindful depression treatment3
Psychotherapy with older adults: Ageism and the therapeutic process3
A scoping review of psychosocial interventions to reduce internalised shame3
Early trajectories of symptom change and working alliance as predictors of treatment outcome3
Session-to-session effects of therapist adherence and facilitative conditions on symptom change in CBT and IPT for depression2
Pathways to mental well-being for graduates of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) and mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR): A mediation analysis of an RCT2
Towards a taxonomy of mechanisms of change? Findings from an expert survey on the association between common factors and specific techniques in psychotherapy2
Between- and within-person effects of affective experiences on coping in CBT: Direct effects and interplay with therapeutic alliance and resource activation2
Toward an experimental analysis of verbal shaping in psychotherapy2
The influence of deliberate practice on skill performance in therapeutic practice: A systematic review of early studies2
Comparing counseling outcome for college students: Metaverse and in-person approaches2
Does attachment predict the outcome of cognitive processing therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder in adolescent patients with interpersonal traumatization?2
Repeated assessments of depressive symptoms in randomized psychosocial intervention trials: best practice for analyzing symptom change over time2
Client-therapist temporal congruence in perceiving immediate therapist self-disclosure and its association with treatment outcome2
Causal inference in a complex world — Innovations and practical approaches for psychotherapy research2
Brave new world: Mental health services 25 years since Dodo and 25 years in the future2
Socioeconomic status, psychotherapy duration, and return to work from disability due to common mental disorders2
Stress, depression, and the therapeutic alliance as mediators on the outcome of brief psychodynamic-interpersonal psychotherapy for multisomatoform disorder2
Shedding light on the effects of supportive techniques on nonverbal synchrony and their moderators in psychotherapy for depression2
Renegotiating tasks or goals as rupture repair: A task analysis in a cognitive–behavioral therapy for personality disorder2
Using implementation intentions to prevent relapse after remission from psychological treatment for depression: The SMArT intervention2
Effects of alliance ruptures and repairs on outcomes2
Schema therapists’ perceptions of the influence of their early maladaptive schemas on therapy2
Symptom reduction in DBT-informed partial hospital, intensive outpatient, and step-down programs: Mindfulness matters2
 “… if I care about stuff, then other people care about me”. Adolescents’ experiences of helpful and unhelpful aspects of brief behavioural activation therapy for depression2
Illustrating systemic change in family therapy: How therapists’ and clients’ alliance perceptions codevelop over time2
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Meaning in life measure: a five-Item short form and its measurement invariance across gender, age, and cultural contexts2
Exploring access and engagement with Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services, before, during, and after the COVID-19 lockdown: A service evaluation in the Northwest of England2
Expert clinicians’ prototypes of an adolescent treatment: Common and unique factors among four treatment models2
Therapist's warmth and competence increased positive outcome expectations and alliance in an analogue experiment2
Countertransference—Introduction to a special section2
Session Reactions Scale-3: Initial psychometric evidence2
Student counsellor experiences of mindfulness-based intervention training: A systematic review of the qualitative literature2
Transgender and gender diverse adults’ self-reported mental health diagnoses, engagement in mental health services, and perceptions of therapists2
A longitudinal view of an approach to responsiveness: Principles followed and lessons learned2
Using the experience sampling method to support clinical practice: An illustration with problematic cannabis use2
Risk factors for initial appointment non-attendance at Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT) services: A retrospective analysis2
Addressing cultural topics during psychotherapy: Evidence-based do’s and don’ts from an ethnic minority perspective*2
The relationship between youth involvement, alliance and outcome in trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy2
Call me maybe? In-person vs. teletherapy outcomes among married couples2
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