Psychotherapy Research

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Do routine outcome monitoring measures tell the same story? Evaluating outcome trajectories and clinical outcomes for the outcome rating scale and outcome questionnaire - 45	57
Fluctuations in therapist responsiveness facing clients with borderline personality disorder: Starting therapy on the right foot	44
Correction	33
Assessing therapist skills in teletherapy: the development and validation of the tele-facilitative interpersonal skills task	27
What time-varying network models based on functional analysis tell us about the course of a patient's problem	24
Emotional arousal and reflective functioning among parents participating in attachment-based family therapy for LGBTQ+ young adults and their nonaccepting parents	19
Somatic symptom profiles are associated with pre-treatment depression and anxiety symptom severity but not inpatient therapy outcomes	19
Meditation, mindfulness, and acceptance methods in psychotherapy: A systematic review	18
Maladaptive defense mechanisms moderate treatment outcome in 6 months versus 12 months dialectical-behavior therapy for borderline personality disorder	15
Do patients internalize the positive regard they are offered? A dyadic test of a Rogerian condition	15
“Picking up the pieces”: Patients’ retrospective reflections of rupture resolution episodes during treatment	14
The Cooper-Norcross Inventory of Preferences: Measurement invariance across international datasets and languages	14
The relationship between general psychopathology in young people with family functioning and engagement with psychotherapy	13
Lessons from ten years of psychotherapy process research	12
Does emotional processing predict 18-month post-therapy outcomes in the experiential treatment of major depression?	12
Therapists’ perceptions of interpersonally challenging patients in generalized anxiety disorder	12
Symptom-specific improvement across therapies and their putative mediators: A mediation network intervention analysis	12
Clinical factors and early life experiences associated with therapeutic alliance development in treatment for depression or binge eating	12
The nature, motives, and perceived consequences of therapist dishonesty	11
A person-centered, transdiagnostic schema and mode profile approach to predict outcome in time-limited schema group therapy	11
Comparing helpful and hindering processes in good and poor outcome cases: A qualitative metasynthesis of eight Hermeneutic Single Case Efficacy Design studies	10
Sudden gains in PTSD symptoms and social functioning in cognitive processing therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder	10
Similarities in client-clinician perceptions of subjective social status and its association to similarities in the quality of working alliance and client anxiety symptoms	10
First impressions count: Therapists’ impression on patients’ motivation and helping alliance predicts psychotherapy dropout	10
Client-counselor behavioral and inter-brain synchronization among dismissing and secure clients and its association with alliance quality and outcome	10

A longitudinal view of an approach to responsiveness: Principles followed and lessons learned	10
Comparing counseling outcome for college students: Metaverse and in-person approaches	10
Repeated assessments of depressive symptoms in randomized psychosocial intervention trials: best practice for analyzing symptom change over time	9
A randomized controlled trial of an adapted group cognitive-behavioral therapy for burned-out teachers	9
Innovative moments in recovered cases treated with the unified protocol for transdiagnostic treatment of emotional disorders	9
Therapist in-session feelings predict change in depressive symptoms in interpersonal and brief relational psychotherapy	9
Self-invalidation in borderline personality disorder: A content analysis of patients’ verbalizations	9
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	8
Symptom change trajectories in patients with persistent somatic symptoms and their association to long-term treatment outcome	8
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	8
Development and validation of a psychotherapy change motivation scale	8
Unraveling the optimal balance of problem-related affective experiences and need satisfaction in cognitive-behavioral therapy: A response surface analysis	8
Self-efficacy, motivation, social support, and alliance as predictors of youth psychotherapy outcomes in usual care	8
Symptom reduction in DBT-informed partial hospital, intensive outpatient, and step-down programs: Mindfulness matters	8
Comorbidity as a moderator of the differential efficacy of transdiagnostic behavior therapy and behavioral activation for affective disorders	8
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	8
Psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation Outcome Measure (CORE-OM) in Chile	7
Implicit relational aspects of the therapeutic relationship in psychoanalytic treatments: an examination of linguistic style entrainment over time	7
Quality of the therapeutic working alliance as a factor in intensive residential treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder	7
Smaller effects matter in the psychological therapies: 25 years on from Wampold et al. (1997)	7
Development of a brief therapist presence inventory in China using multilevel factor analysis and item response theory	7
Therapists’ and patients’ experiences of using patients’ self-reported data in ongoing psychotherapy processes—A systematic review and meta-analysis of qualitative studies	7
Treatment outcomes and patient satisfaction of a virtual partial hospital program: A mixed-method study	7
Do specific modules of cognitive behavioral therapy for depression have measurable effects on youth internalizing symptoms? An idiographic analysis	7
Emotion-focused group therapy among women with premenstrual dysphoric disorder: A randomized clinical trial	7
Mechanisms of change in multicomponent group-based treatment for patients suffering from medically unexplained physical symptoms	6
The meaning and feeling of the time and space between psychotherapy sessions and everyday life: Client experiences of transitions	6
The role of experiential avoidance in the early stages of an online mindfulness-based intervention: Two mediation studies	6
The therapeutic alliance and dropout in cognitive behavioral therapy of depression	6
How does hostile resistance interfere with the benefits of cognitive–behavioral therapy for panic disorder? The role of therapist adherence and working alliance	6
Rater effects in evaluating therapist competencies using structured case reports: A mixed-methods study	6
Child-therapist and parent-therapist alliances and outcome in the treatment of children with oppositional defiant/conduct disorder	6
Agreement in patient-therapist alliance ratings and its relation to dropout and outcome in a large sample of cognitive behavioral therapy for panic disorder	6
Bridging the feedback implementation gap: A comparison of empirical and rational decision rules in naturalistic psychotherapy	6
Illustrating systemic change in family therapy: How therapists’ and clients’ alliance perceptions codevelop over time	6
Client perspectives on psychotherapy failure	6
Risk factors for initial appointment non-attendance at Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT) services: A retrospective analysis	6
“Business as usual won’t work … ”: Therapists’ experiences and preparedness for providing refugees with trauma-related interventions	6
Effectiveness of solution-focused brief therapy: An umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses	6
Participant factors as correlates of patients’ psychotherapy outcome expectation: A meta-analytic and box-count review	5
Effectiveness of brief group transdiagnostic therapy for emotional disorders in primary care: A randomized controlled trial identifying predictors of outcome	5
Avoidance and fear day by day in social anxiety disorder	5
Therapists’ responsiveness in the process of ruptures and resolution: Are patients and therapists on the same page?	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
Does psychological process change during psychotherapy predict long-term depression outcome after successful cognitive therapy or interpersonal psychotherapy? Secondary analysis of a randomized trial	5
Enhancing the effect of psychotherapy through systematic client feedback in outpatient mental healthcare: A cluster randomized trial.	5
Client-Therapist Convergence on Sleep Difficulty and its Impact on Treatment Outcomes	5
The effect of mechanical feedback on outcome in self-care support tool based on solution-focused brief therapy	5
Therapists' perception of the working alliance, real relationship and therapeutic presence in in-person therapy versus tele-therapy	5
Temporal sequencing of change in trauma-related beliefs and therapeutic alliance during prolonged exposure and sertraline for chronic PTSD	5

A first look at diversity gaps in psychotherapy research publications and representation	5
Race, racial matching, and cultural understanding as predictors of treatment engagement in youth mental health services	5
Quasi-randomized trial of solution-focused brief therapy intervention for readiness to change and alcohol and other drug use in a Brazilian community-based treatment center	5
Is the quality of therapeutic collaboration associated with the assimilation of problematic experiences progress? A comparison of two cases	5
What to think or how to think – is symptom reduction in posttraumatic symptomatology associated with change in posttraumatic cognitions or perseverative thinking? A latent change score model approach	5
Toward an experimental analysis of verbal shaping in psychotherapy	5
Is symptom outcome the whole story?—A multilevel meta-analysis of systemic therapy for adults including family system functioning	5
Engaging with difficult topics and emotional experiences in psychotherapy: A study of helpful therapist acts	5
Relational depth from the perspective of the psychotherapy dyad: Psychometric properties of the Relational Depth Frequency Scale	5
Change in avoidance and negative grief-related cognitions mediates treatment outcome in older adults with prolonged grief disorder	5
Student counsellor experiences of mindfulness-based intervention training: A systematic review of the qualitative literature	5
A double-blind study of empathic support and expectation as mechanisms of symptom change	5
Can cognitive inflexibility reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression? Promoting the structural nested mean model in psychotherapy research	5
Using classification trees to identify psychotherapy patients at risk for poor treatment adherence	5
Love yourself as a therapist, doubt yourself as an institution? Therapist and institution effects on outcome, treatment length, and dropout	5
Antecedents and consequences of open and closed questions in intake sessions of psychodynamic psychotherapy	4
Patient motivation in group metacognitive therapy for generalized anxiety disorder	4
The combined effect of psychodynamic psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy on healthcare cost	4
Development and content validity of EVAD: A novel tool for evaluating and classifying the severity of adverse events for psychotherapeutic clinical trials	4
Client preferences, therapy activities and preference-activity match as predictors of therapy outcome	4
Predictors of homework engagement in group CBT for social anxiety: client beliefs about homework, its consequences, group cohesion, and working alliance	4
Client-therapist congruence in session-helpfulness ratings and its association with therapy outcomes	4
Corrective attachment episodes in attachment-based family therapy: the power of enactment	4
Predicting resistance management skill from psychotherapy experience, intellectual humility and emotion regulation	4
Trauma-focused treatments for victims of interpersonal violence: A comparison of treatment interventions and outcomes	4
Prediction of adolescent psychotherapy outcomes using youth- and caregiver-reported symptoms data	4
Causal inference in a complex world — Innovations and practical approaches for psychotherapy research	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
Sensitivity to change of the Systemic Therapy Inventory of Change (STIC) intersession scales	4
Electrodermal and respiratory synchrony in couple therapy in distinct therapeutic subsystems and reflection periods	4
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	4
Content and attainment of individual treatment goals in CBT	4
Empirical examination of long-term and intensive psychodynamic psychotherapy for severely disturbed patients	4
Individual behavioral activation in the treatment of depression: A meta analysis	4
Mechanism engagement as a potential evidence-based approach to personalized treatment termination	4
Outcome expectations and working alliance may be more important for patients from rural areas during the transition to college life: An exploratory within-patient analysis	4
Shedding light on the effects of supportive techniques on nonverbal synchrony and their moderators in psychotherapy for depression	4
Clients’ experiences with a Trauma-sensitive mindfulness and compassion group intervention: a first-person perspective on change and change mechanisms	4
Effectiveness of an online dialectical behavior therapy skills training in adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A randomized controlled trial	4
Are some therapists better at facilitating and consolidating sudden gains than others?	4
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	4
Informing patients about possible negative effects of psychological treatment: A survey of Swedish clinical psychologists’ attitudes and practices	4
What makes inpatient treatment for PTSD effective? Investigating daily therapy process factors	4
The association of early response with the outcome of psychosomatic rehabilitation in patients with mental disorders and its link to treatment and illness beliefs—A prospective longitudinal cohort stu	3
“It Felt Like I Was Being Tailored to the Treatment Rather Than the Treatment Being Tailored to Me”: Patient Experiences of Helpful and Unhelpful Psychotherapy	3
Effects and experiences of idiographic patient-reported outcome measures for feedback in psychotherapy: A systematic review and secondary analysis of the empirical literature	3
The person of the therapist: therapists’ personal characteristics as predictors of alliance and treatment outcomes	3
Predicting dropout from psychological treatment using different machine learning algorithms, resampling methods, and sample sizes	3
For whom should psychotherapy focus on problem coping? A machine learning algorithm for treatment personalization	3
Some directions for research and theory on countertransference	3
Strength-based methods – a narrative review and comparative multilevel meta-analysis of positive interventions in clinical settings	3
The relationship between youth involvement, alliance and outcome in trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy	3
Negative experiences in psychotherapy from clients’ perspective: A qualitative meta-analysis	3
Therapist responsiveness in the blank landscape of depression: A qualitative study among psychotherapists	3
Correction	3
Enhancing the effectiveness of CBT for patients with unipolar depression by integrating digital interventions into treatment: A pilot randomized controlled trial	3
Trajectories of change in general psychopathology levels among depressed adolescents in short-term psychotherapies	3
Vindicating pollyanna? An experimental test of cognitive restructuring and positive thinking interventions	3
Group schema therapy for personality disorders: Systematic review, research agenda and treatment implications	3
Detecting defense mechanisms from Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) transcripts using machine learning	3
Exploring alliance ruptures through the lenses of therapeutic distance	3
A comparison of the effect of two types of brief psychodynamic group therapy on perfectionism-related attitudes, self-relatedness, and self-esteem	3
First impressions matter: The influence of initial assessments on psychological treatment initiation and subsequent dropout	3
Psychotherapy process research: Identifying productive in-session processes to enhance treatment outcomes and therapist responsiveness	3
Development and validation of countertransference feeling and behavior awareness measures in an Italian and American clinician sample	3
Therapists’ experiences of negative effects in intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy: A qualitative interview study	3
Assessing the quality of digital patient-therapist communication: the development and validation of a text-based facilitative interpersonal skills task	3
What if we wait? Using synthetic waiting lists to estimate treatment effects in routine outcome data	3
Matching research and practice: Prediction of individual patient progress and dropout risk for basic routine outcome monitoring	3
Do treatments for mental disorders affect relationship satisfaction? A systematic review and meta-analysis	3
Are perceptions of the psychotherapist affected by the audiovisual quality of a teletherapy session?	3
Patient perspectives on working with preferences in psychotherapy: A consensual qualitative research study	2
Therapist affiliation and hostility in cognitive–behavioral therapy with and without motivational interviewing for severe generalized anxiety disorder	2
Does attachment predict the outcome of cognitive processing therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder in adolescent patients with interpersonal traumatization?	2
Exploring the factor structure of a Chinese version of the CORE-OM: insights from network approach and bifactor modeling	2
The competence development of German psychotherapy trainees: A naturalistic, longitudinal and multidimensional outcome study	2
The effects of emotion-focused skills training on parental mental health, emotion regulation and self-efficacy: Mediating processes between parents and children	2
Does the working alliance mediate the therapist competence-outcome relationship in cognitive behavior therapy for depression?	2
The development of the Epistemic Trust Rating System (ETRS)	2
Misery loves company: Predictors of treatment response to a loneliness intervention	2

Examining within- and between-member cohesion and working alliance effects on group members’ motivation: a preliminary actor-partner interdependence study	2
An examination of therapists’ professional characteristics as moderators of the effect of feedback on psychological treatment outcomes	2
Therapist competence, homework engagement, and client characteristics in CBT for youth depression: A study of mediation and moderation in a community-based trial	2
Predicting optimal treatment outcomes using the Personalized Advantage Index for patients with persistent somatic symptoms	2
Using the experience sampling method to support clinical practice: An illustration with problematic cannabis use	2
Physiological activation and co-activation in an imagery-based treatment for test anxiety	2
The utility of completing adjuvant video lessons based on the unified protocol during psychotherapy: A retrospective study using a telehealth platform in routine clinical care	2
Using clinician and patient input to assess utility, accuracy, efficiency, and therapeutic implementation of a new data-driven digital therapeutic for personalized clinical eating disorder treatment:	2
Development of a new observer-rated measure to assess the real relationship in psychotherapy sessions	2
Clinician perceptions of nomothetic and individualized patient-reported outcome measures in measurement-based care	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
Therapeutic alliance and clinical outcomes in teletherapy and in-person psychotherapy: A noninferiority study during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Limited reparenting as a corrective emotional experience in schema therapy: A preliminary task analysis	2
Fluctuation in the assimilation of problematic experiences: A comparison of two contrasting cases of Emotion Focused Therapy	2
How to manage endings in unsuccessful therapy: A qualitative comparison of youth and clinician perspectives	2
Efficacy of systemic therapy on adults with depressive disorders: A meta-analysis	2
Change in emotion-based narrative as a potential mechanism of change in a brief treatment for borderline personality disorder	2
Improved outcomes for depressed elder abuse victims with video-delivered psychotherapy during COVID-19	2
Enhancing emotion regulation	2
I Look at my whole body and i feel better: attentional bias, emotional and psychophysiological response by pure exposure treatment in women with obesity	2
Direct retrospective measurement of therapeutic changes: an example using the Czech version of the Questionnaire of Personal Changes (Q-PC)	2
Group-based DBT skills training modules are linked to independent and additive improvements in emotion regulation in a heterogeneous outpatient sample	2
Disclosure in psychotherapy versus in anonymous and non-anonymous online spaces	2
Change in reflective functioning in interpersonal psychotherapy and cognitive behavioral therapy for major depressive disorder	2
Development of the Psychotherapist Character Virtues (PCV) Interview	2
Measuring psychotherapist functioning with the Therapist Work Involvement Scales (TWIS): reliability, factor structure, and measurement invariance	2
Patient alliance with the program predicts treatment outcomes whereas alliance with the therapist predicts adherence in internet-based therapy for panic disorder	1
Effects of panic-specific cognitive behavioural and psychodynamic psychotherapies on work ability in a doubly randomised clinical trial	1
Dramatic storytelling and naming subjective experiences in psychodynamic treatments of depressed women: An exploratory study of assimilative functions of narrating	1
Mindfulness-based schema therapy and forgiveness therapy among women affected by infidelity: A randomized clinical trial	1
Relationship between outcomes and processes in patients with chronic low back pain plus depressive symptoms: idiographic analyses within a randomized controlled trial	1
Development of the Cultural Humility Scale—Short Form (CHS-SF)	1
Association of patients’ pre-therapy strengths and alliance in outpatient psychotherapy: A multilevel growth curve analysis	1
Therapist verification of patient self-concepts as a responsive precondition for early alliance development and subsequent introject change	1
Emotional and interpersonal states following dialectical behavioral therapy in adolescent borderline personality disorder: A proof-of-concept ecological momentary assessment outcome study	1
How mood is affected by environment and upsetting events: The moderating role of psychological flexibility	1
Direct and indirect effects of adverse and protective childhood experiences on symptom improvement in psychotherapy	1
The influence of deliberate practice on skill performance in therapeutic practice: A systematic review of early studies	1
Therapeutic relationships in cognitive behavioral therapy: Tailoring the therapeutic alliance	1
Testing of the therapist to reduce maladaptive interactional patterns: Categorizing patients’ tests	1
Learning from mothers who received focused parent–infant psychotherapy for the treatment of their child’s regulatory disorders	1
Developing psychoanalytic case conceptualization skills through didactic teaching: A randomized controlled trial	1
Feasibility of generic, short, and easy-to-use assessment of psychological distress during psychotherapy: Longitudinal measurement invariance of CORE-10 and -OM	1
Is there an elephant in the room? A study of convergences and divergences of adult attachment measures commonly used in clinical studies	1
Client-therapist temporal congruence in perceiving immediate therapist self-disclosure and its association with treatment outcome	1
Process-Based psychotherapy personalization: considering causality with continuous-time dynamic modeling	1
How qualitative methods advance the study of causation in psychotherapy research	1
Decentering as a mediator of the effect of mindfulness on emotional distress: Evidence from cross-sectional and longitudinal designs	1
Therapeutic techniques and session impact: A practice-research network study in private practice	1
Countertransference responses mediate the relationship between patients’ overall defense functioning and therapists’ interventions	1
Exploring job demands and resources in psychotherapists treating displaced people—A scoping review	1
Investigating predictors of treatment response in Dialectical Behavior Therapy for borderline personality disorder using LASSO regression	1
Research evidence on psychotherapist skills and methods: Foreword and afterword	1
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Meaning in life measure: a five-Item short form and its measurement invariance across gender, age, and cultural contexts	1
“I am strong and I can get on with my life”: The subjective experience of recovery of patients treated for depression	1
Is respiratory sinus arrhythmia a modifiable index of symptom change in cognitive behavioral therapy for youth? A pooled-data analysis of a randomized trial	1
The role of symptom reduction in improving health-related quality of life through brief cognitive behavioral therapy	1
Within- and between-session changes of in-session reflective functioning of mothers in dyadic parent–infant psychotherapy	1
Therapy matchmaking: Patient-therapist match in personality traits and attachment style	1
Therapist and treatment credibility in treatment outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis of clients’ perceptions in individual and face-to-face psychotherapies	1
From intuition to innovation: Empirical illustrations of multimodal measurement in psychotherapy research	1
Examining therapist estimation of client working alliance and client symptom outcome using truth and bias model and response surface analysis	1
Addressing cultural topics during psychotherapy: Evidence-based do’s and don’ts from an ethnic minority perspective*	1
Integrating theory-based and data-driven methods to case conceptualization: A functional analysis approach with ecological momentary assessment	1
Individual treatment selection for patients with post-traumatic stress disorder: External validation of a personalised advantage index	1
Transgender and gender diverse adults’ self-reported mental health diagnoses, engagement in mental health services, and perceptions of therapists	1
Short-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy with depressed adolescents: Comparing in-session interactions in good and poor outcome cases	1
Cognitive–behavioral therapy for patients with somatoform disorders: A pilot preliminary randomized controlled trial	1
Schema therapists’ perceptions of the influence of their early maladaptive schemas on therapy	1
Physiological synchronization and innovative moments in psychotherapy: A single-case study of micro-process	1
Adapting brief problem-solving therapy for pregnant women experiencing depressive symptoms and intimate partner violence in rural Ethiopia	1
The art and science behind socratic questioning and guided discovery: a research review	1
Using implementation intentions to prevent relapse after remission from psychological treatment for depression: The SMArT intervention	1
Statement of Retraction: Examining therapy dynamics and session outcome using differential equations model and multilevel data disaggregation	1
A cohort study of engagement in telehealth psychotherapy versus in-person services	1
Exploring Therapist Self-Efficacy Change Profiles Using Latent Growth Curve Analysis	1
Alliance ruptures and resolutions in short-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy for adolescent depression: An empirical case study	1
Two kinds of sudden gains in brief psychotherapy	1
Four perspectives on traumatized youths’ therapeutic alliance: Correspondence and outcome predictions	1
Moderators of short- and long-term outcomes in panic control treatment and panic-focused psychodynamic psychotherapy	1
Does the STIC measurement and feedback system improve multisystemic outcomes in individual, couple and family therapy? A randomized clinical trial	1
Prevalence of meditation-related adverse effects in a population-based sample in the United States	1
The therapeutic effects of the therapists’ ability to pass their patients’ tests in psychotherapy	1
Pretreatment insight as a predictor of alliance strengthening in supportive vs. supportive-expressive treatment	1