Psychotherapy Research

Article	Citations
A scoping review of machine learning in psychotherapy research	80
Personalized treatment selection in routine care: Integrating machine learning and statistical algorithms to recommend cognitive behavioral or psychodynamic therapy	47
Prevalence of meditation-related adverse effects in a population-based sample in the United States	30
Feasibility and utility of idiographic models in the clinic: A pilot study	28
Systematic review and meta-analyses of the long-term efficacy of narrative exposure therapy for adults, children and perpetrators	27
Generalized linear mixed-model (GLMM) trees: A flexible decision-tree method for multilevel and longitudinal data	27
rMEA: An R package to assess nonverbal synchronization in motion energy analysis time-series	26
Cross-trial prediction in psychotherapy: External validation of the Personalized Advantage Index using machine learning in two Dutch randomized trials comparing CBT versus IPT for depression	23
Indirect effect of patient outcome expectation on improvement through alliance quality: A meta-analysis	23
It's the therapist and the treatment: The structure of common therapeutic relationship factors	22
Investigating the dose–response effect in open-ended psychotherapy	20
Self-reported reflective functioning mediates the association between attachment insecurity and well-being among psychotherapists	19
Routine Outcome Monitoring (ROM) and Feedback: Research Review and Recommendations	19
Mindfulness-based interventions among people of color: A systematic review and meta-analysis	19
Just in time crisis response: suicide alert system for telemedicine psychotherapy settings	18
Identifying CBT non-response among OCD outpatients: A machine-learning approach	18
Delivering tele-chairwork: A qualitative survey of expert therapists	17
Group therapy for mood disorders: A meta-analysis	17
Enhancing the effect of psychotherapy through systematic client feedback in outpatient mental healthcare: A cluster randomized trial.	16
Can a computer detect interpersonal skills? Using machine learning to scale up the Facilitative Interpersonal Skills task	16
A randomized controlled trial of a smartphone-based application for the treatment of anxiety	16
The factor structure of the Working Alliance Inventory short-form in youth psychotherapy: an empirical investigation	15
Do therapist effects really impact estimates of within-patient mechanisms of change? A Monte Carlo simulation study	15
Patient alliance with the program predicts treatment outcomes whereas alliance with the therapist predicts adherence in internet-based therapy for panic disorder	15
Machine learning: A primer for psychotherapy researchers	15

Clinical dilemmas of routine outcome monitoring and clinical feedback: A qualitative study of patient experiences	15
Changes in the level of personality functioning in inpatient psychotherapy	13
Discussing measurement-based care with patients: An analysis of clinician-patient dyads	13
Development of therapeutic alliance in mentalization-based treatment—Goals, Bonds, and Tasks in a specialized treatment for borderline personality disorder	13
Compassion focused therapy in a university counseling and psychological services center: A feasibility trial of a new standardized group manual	12
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-up	12
Psychotherapy with refugees—Supportive and hindering elements	12
What too strict a method obscures about the validity of outcome measures	12
Patient factors predict therapists’ emotional countertransference differently depending on whether therapists use transference work in psychodynamic therapy	11
For whom should psychotherapy focus on problem coping? A machine learning algorithm for treatment personalization	11
Understanding the relationship between patient language and outcomes in internet-enabled cognitive behavioural therapy: A deep learning approach to automatic coding of session transcripts	11
The embodied listener: a dyadic case study of how therapist and patient reflect on the significance of therapist’s personal presence for the therapeutic change process	11
Client-Identified Impacts of Helpful and Hindering Events in Psychotherapy: A Qualitative Meta-analysis	10
Countertransference types and their relation to rupture and repair in the alliance	10
Randomized controlled trial of Regulation Focused Psychotherapy for children: A manualized psychodynamic treatment for externalizing behaviors	10
The therapeutic relationship in child psychotherapy: integrating the perspectives of children, parents and therapists	10
Predictors of dropout among adolescents with borderline personality disorder attending mentalization-based group treatment	10
Factors affecting the implementation of an outcome measurement feedback system in youth mental health settings	9
Physiological activation and co-activation in an imagery-based treatment for test anxiety	9
Perspectives on an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) based program for patients with inflammatory bowel disease and comorbid anxiety and/or depressive symptoms	9
A clinical effectiveness trial comparing ACT and CBT for inpatients with depressive and mixed mental disorders	9
Predictors of outcome during inpatient psychotherapy for posttraumatic stress disorder: a single-treatment, multi-site, practice-based study	9
The influence of extra-therapeutic social support on the association between therapeutic bond and treatment outcome	9
Improving measurement feedback systems for measurement-based care	9
Assessing beliefs about emotion generation and change: The conceptualisation, development, and validation of the Cognitive Mediation Beliefs Questionnaire (CMBQ)	9
A placebo prognostic index (PI) as a moderator of outcomes in the treatment of adolescent depression: Could it inform risk-stratification in treatment with cognitive-behavioral therapy, fluoxetine, or	8
Does the working alliance mediate the therapist competence-outcome relationship in cognitive behavior therapy for depression?	8
Understanding routine outcome monitoring and clinical feedback in context: Introduction to the special section	8
How to manage endings in unsuccessful therapy: A qualitative comparison of youth and clinician perspectives	8
Is there an elephant in the room? A study of convergences and divergences of adult attachment measures commonly used in clinical studies	8
Hand movements that change during psychotherapy and their relation to therapeutic outcome: An analysis of individual and simultaneous movements	7
“Like a huge weight lifted off my shoulders”: Exploring young peoples’ experiences of treatment in a pilot trial of trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy	7
When to disclose and to whom? examining within- and between-client moderators of therapist self disclosure-outcome associations in psychodynamic psychotherapy	7
Emotional processing in attachment-based family therapy for suicidal adolescents	7
The role of the working alliance in psychological treatment of substance use disorder outpatients	7
Deception detection and emotion recognition: Investigating F.A.C.E. software	7
Psychological intervention change measurement in Latin America: Where from? Where to?	7
Corrective attachment episodes in attachment-based family therapy: the power of enactment	7
Change in avoidance and negative grief-related cognitions mediates treatment outcome in older adults with prolonged grief disorder	7
Multimodal affect analysis of psychodynamic play therapy	7
Group-based DBT skills training modules are linked to independent and additive improvements in emotion regulation in a heterogeneous outpatient sample	7
Effectiveness of brief group transdiagnostic therapy for emotional disorders in primary care: A randomized controlled trial identifying predictors of outcome	7
Comorbidity as a moderator of the differential efficacy of transdiagnostic behavior therapy and behavioral activation for affective disorders	7
Does it make a difference to be more “on the same page”? Investigating the role of alliance convergence for outcomes in two different samples	6
The alliance mediates outcome in cognitive–behavioral therapy for social anxiety disorder, but not in attention bias modification	6
Limited reparenting as a corrective emotional experience in schema therapy: A preliminary task analysis	6
The therapeutic effects of the therapists’ ability to pass their patients’ tests in psychotherapy	6
The therapeutic alliance and dropout in cognitive behavioral therapy of depression	6
Dynamic prediction and identification of cases at risk of relapse following completion of low-intensity cognitive behavioural therapy	6
Integrating theory-based and data-driven methods to case conceptualization: A functional analysis approach with ecological momentary assessment	6

Working with emotion predicts sudden gains during experiential therapy for depression	6
Some directions for research and theory on countertransference	6
Therapists’ and patients’ experiences of using patients’ self-reported data in ongoing psychotherapy processes—A systematic review and meta-analysis of qualitative studies	6
“I didn’t have to look her in the eyes”—participants’ experiences of the therapeutic relationship in internet-based psychodynamic therapy for adolescent depression	6
Predictors and moderators of treatment dropout in cognitive-behavioral and psychodynamic therapies for panic disorder	6
Clinician perceptions of nomothetic and individualized patient-reported outcome measures in measurement-based care	6
Trajectories of change in general psychopathology levels among depressed adolescents in short-term psychotherapies	6
Emotion-focused group therapy among women with premenstrual dysphoric disorder: A randomized clinical trial	6
Unpacking the active ingredients of internet-based psychodynamic therapy for adolescents	5
Depression symptom clusters in adolescents: A latent class analysis in a clinical sample	5
Mindfulness-based schema therapy and forgiveness therapy among women affected by infidelity: A randomized clinical trial	5
Why setbacks are compatible with progress in assimilating problematic themes: Illustrations from the case of Alicia	5
Psychological symptoms, early maladaptive schemas and schema modes: predictors of the outcome of group schema therapy in patients with personality disorders	5
Smaller effects matter in the psychological therapies: 25 years on from Wampold et al. (1997)	5
Othering refugees: Psychotherapists’ attitudes toward patients with and without a refugee background	5
Process-Based psychotherapy personalization: considering causality with continuous-time dynamic modeling	5
Preferences for panic control treatment and panic focused psychodynamic psychotherapy for panic disorder – who chooses which and why?	5
Exploring the temporal associations between avoidance behavior and cognitions during the course of cognitive behavioral therapy for clients with symptoms of social anxiety disorder	5
Mechanisms of change in multicomponent group-based treatment for patients suffering from medically unexplained physical symptoms	5
The relationships among working alliance, group cohesion and homework engagement in group cognitive behaviour therapy for social anxiety disorder	5
Trajectories of changes in distress in counseling center clients: a replication study	5
Facilitating dyadic synchrony in psychotherapy sessions: Systematic review and meta-analysis	5
Four perspectives on traumatized youths’ therapeutic alliance: Correspondence and outcome predictions	5
Fluctuation in the assimilation of problematic experiences: A comparison of two contrasting cases of Emotion Focused Therapy	5
Treatment outcomes and patient satisfaction of a virtual partial hospital program: A mixed-method study	5
Negative effects during multicomponent group-based treatment: A multisite study	4
Dropout from mentalization-based group treatment for adolescents with borderline personality features: A qualitative study	4
Countertransference responses mediate the relationship between patients’ overall defense functioning and therapists’ interventions	4
Change in reflective functioning in interpersonal psychotherapy and cognitive behavioral therapy for major depressive disorder	4
“If you don’t have a word for something, you may doubt whether it’s even real” – how individuals with borderline personality disorder experience change	4
Alliance-outcome relation and progress feedback: Secondary data analyses of a randomized clinical trial study in China	4
Innovative moments in recovered cases treated with the unified protocol for transdiagnostic treatment of emotional disorders	4
Progress monitoring with couple clients	4
The implications of the Dodo bird verdict for training in psychotherapy: prioritizing process observation	4
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
“I am strong and I can get on with my life”: The subjective experience of recovery of patients treated for depression	4
Enhancing emotion regulation	4
Individual behavioral activation in the treatment of depression: A meta analysis	4
Strength-based methods – a narrative review and comparative multilevel meta-analysis of positive interventions in clinical settings	4
Change in dysfunctional attitudes and attachment in interpersonal psychotherapy for depressed adolescents	4
Mimicry in psychotherapy – an actor partner model of therapists’ and patients’ non-verbal behavior and its effects on the working alliance	4
Therapeutic distance in client-therapist narratives: client attachment, therapist attachment, and dyadic effects	4
Drawing causal inferences from randomized controlled trials in psychotherapy research	4
Predictors of attendance in outpatient group treatment for women with posttraumatic stress disorder and substance use disorder	4
Therapist affiliation and hostility in cognitive–behavioral therapy with and without motivational interviewing for severe generalized anxiety disorder	4
Matching research and practice: Prediction of individual patient progress and dropout risk for basic routine outcome monitoring	4
An exploration of the relationships between patient application of CBT skills and therapeutic outcomes during a two-week CBT treatment	4
Agreement in patient-therapist alliance ratings and its relation to dropout and outcome in a large sample of cognitive behavioral therapy for panic disorder	4
Motivational interviewing for social anxiety disorder: An examination of the technical hypothesis	3
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 trial	3
Do metacognitions mediate the relationship between irrational beliefs, eating disorder symptoms and cognitive reappraisal?	3
A mobile-based aftercare intervention to increase self-esteem in inpatients diagnosed with depression: A randomized controlled trial	3
Sparks of psychotherapeutic change: How therapists understand moments of meetings’ contribution to change in psychotherapy	3
Early trajectories of symptom change and working alliance as predictors of treatment outcome	3
Achieving successful resolution of alliance ruptures: for whom and when?	3
Feasibility of generic, short, and easy-to-use assessment of psychological distress during psychotherapy: Longitudinal measurement invariance of CORE-10 and -OM	3
Clients’ experiences with a Trauma-sensitive mindfulness and compassion group intervention: a first-person perspective on change and change mechanisms	3
Relational depth from the perspective of the psychotherapy dyad: Psychometric properties of the Relational Depth Frequency Scale	3
Predicting dropout from psychological treatment using different machine learning algorithms, resampling methods, and sample sizes	3
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 symptoms	3
Symptom change trajectories in patients with persistent somatic symptoms and their association to long-term treatment outcome	3
Client perspectives on psychotherapy failure	3
Mentalization-enhancing therapeutic interventions in the psychotherapy of anorexia nervosa: An analysis of use and influence on patients’ mentalizing capacity	3
Causality in psychotherapy research: Towards evidential pluralism	3
A scoping review of psychosocial interventions to reduce internalised shame	3
Misery loves company: Predictors of treatment response to a loneliness intervention	3
Predicting optimal treatment outcomes using the Personalized Advantage Index for patients with persistent somatic symptoms	3
The person of the therapist: therapists’ personal characteristics as predictors of alliance and treatment outcomes	3
Are some therapists better at facilitating and consolidating sudden gains than others?	3
Is it me, is it you or is it both of US? Applying the social relations model to disentangle the components of the therapeutic bond	3
Comparing helpful and hindering processes in good and poor outcome cases: A qualitative metasynthesis of eight Hermeneutic Single Case Efficacy Design studies	3
Therapist in-session feelings predict change in depressive symptoms in interpersonal and brief relational psychotherapy	3
Self-compassion in eating disorders and childhood trauma: A study of within-person effects in a randomized controlled trial	3
Modelling trajectories of change in psychopathology and well-being during eating disorder outpatient treatment	3
Therapeutic relationships in cognitive behavioral therapy: Tailoring the therapeutic alliance	3
Negative experiences in psychotherapy from clients’ perspective: A qualitative meta-analysis	3
The competence development of German psychotherapy trainees: A naturalistic, longitudinal and multidimensional outcome study	3
Race, racial matching, and cultural understanding as predictors of treatment engagement in youth mental health services	3
What makes inpatient treatment for PTSD effective? Investigating daily therapy process factors	3
Shedding light on the effects of supportive techniques on nonverbal synchrony and their moderators in psychotherapy for depression	2

Exploring Therapist Self-Efficacy Change Profiles Using Latent Growth Curve Analysis	2
Meditation, mindfulness, and acceptance methods in psychotherapy: A systematic review	2
Investigating predictors of treatment response in Dialectical Behavior Therapy for borderline personality disorder using LASSO regression	2
Repeated assessments of depressive symptoms in randomized psychosocial intervention trials: best practice for analyzing symptom change over time	2
Addressing cultural topics during psychotherapy: Evidence-based do’s and don’ts from an ethnic minority perspective*	2
The efficacy of individual humanistic-experiential therapies for the treatment of depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	2
Predicting first session working alliances using deep learning algorithms: A proof-of-concept study for personalized psychotherapy	2
Baseline overly accommodating interpersonal problems in relation to parsed alliance-outcome associations in cognitive behavioral therapy for generalized anxiety disorder	2
Towards a taxonomy of mechanisms of change? Findings from an expert survey on the association between common factors and specific techniques in psychotherapy	2
Renegotiating tasks or goals as rupture repair: A task analysis in a cognitive–behavioral therapy for personality disorder	2
Patient perspectives on working with preferences in psychotherapy: A consensual qualitative research study	2
Mechanism engagement as a potential evidence-based approach to personalized treatment termination	2
Direction of dependence analysis for pre-post assessments using non-Gaussian methods: a tutorial	2
Client-therapist congruence in session-helpfulness ratings and its association with therapy outcomes	2
The art and science behind socratic questioning and guided discovery: a research review	2
What if we wait? Using synthetic waiting lists to estimate treatment effects in routine outcome data	2
Flexibility between immersion and distancing: A dynamic pattern with effect on depressive symptoms	2
Lessons from ten years of psychotherapy process research	2
Transgender and gender diverse adults’ self-reported mental health diagnoses, engagement in mental health services, and perceptions of therapists	2
The evaluation of religious and spirituality-based therapy compared to standard treatment in mental health care: A multi-level meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	2
Research evidence on psychotherapist skills and methods: Foreword and afterword	2
A randomized controlled trial of an adapted group cognitive-behavioral therapy for burned-out teachers	2
Client-therapist temporal congruence in perceiving immediate therapist self-disclosure and its association with treatment outcome	2
An interdisciplinary multimodal integrative healthcare program for somatic symptom disorder, with predominant (spinal) pain	2
How to become a responsive therapist: A study of experiences of developing therapists	2
Session-to-session effects of therapist adherence and facilitative conditions on symptom change in CBT and IPT for depression	2
Addressing interpersonal patterns in patients with personality disorders partially explains psychotherapy outcome via changes in interaction patterns: A mediation analysis	2
How qualitative methods advance the study of causation in psychotherapy research	2
Countertransference—Introduction to a special section	2
Patient motivation in group metacognitive therapy for generalized anxiety disorder	2
Self-Contempt, the Working Alliance and Outcome in Treatments for Borderline Personality Disorder: An Exploratory Study	2
Therapeutic relationships in cognitive behavioral therapy: Theory and recent research	2
Therapists' perception of the working alliance, real relationship and therapeutic presence in in-person therapy versus tele-therapy	2
The capacity for psychotherapy process scale: development and psychometric validation of patient self-reports	2
Engaging with difficult topics and emotional experiences in psychotherapy: A study of helpful therapist acts	2
Outcomes of brief versions of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for diagnostically heterogeneous groups in a routine care setting	2
Do specific modules of cognitive behavioral therapy for depression have measurable effects on youth internalizing symptoms? An idiographic analysis	2
Adapting brief problem-solving therapy for pregnant women experiencing depressive symptoms and intimate partner violence in rural Ethiopia	2
Predicting future courses of psychotherapy within a grouped LASSO framework	2
“… if I care about stuff, then other people care about me”. Adolescents’ experiences of helpful and unhelpful aspects of brief behavioural activation therapy for depression	2
Congruence in patient and therapist-rated alliance predicts subsequent depressive symptoms in cognitive behavioral therapy for depression	2
What is the effect of emotional processing on depression? A longitudinal study	2
Therapeutic alliance and clinical outcomes in teletherapy and in-person psychotherapy: A noninferiority study during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Secret-keeping in therapy by clients who are sexually attracted to children	2
Double trouble: Therapists with low facilitative interpersonal skills and without training have low in-session experiential processes	2
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain: The overlooked issue of rater selection in psychotherapy observer ratings	2
“What shall we focus on?” – A thematic analysis of what characterizes cognitive-behavior therapy sessions with high or low quality of working alliance	2
The relationship between youth involvement, alliance and outcome in trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy	2
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 England	2
Learning from mothers who received focused parent–infant psychotherapy for the treatment of their child’s regulatory disorders	2
Student counsellor experiences of mindfulness-based intervention training: A systematic review of the qualitative literature	2
Association of patients’ pre-therapy strengths and alliance in outpatient psychotherapy: A multilevel growth curve analysis	2
Toward an experimental analysis of verbal shaping in psychotherapy	2
Alliance ruptures and resolutions in short-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy for adolescent depression: An empirical case study	2