OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Psychotherapy Research is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
How does hostile resistance interfere with the benefits of cognitive–behavioral therapy for panic disorder? The role of therapist adherence and working alliance	74
Therapist in-session feelings predict change in depressive symptoms in interpersonal and brief relational psychotherapy	57
Symptom reduction in DBT-informed partial hospital, intensive outpatient, and step-down programs: Mindfulness matters	42
Self-efficacy, motivation, social support, and alliance as predictors of youth psychotherapy outcomes in usual care	37
“Picking up the pieces”: Patients’ retrospective reflections of rupture resolution episodes during treatment	25
Agreement in patient-therapist alliance ratings and its relation to dropout and outcome in a large sample of cognitive behavioral therapy for panic disorder	24
Client perspectives on psychotherapy failure	22
The nature, motives, and perceived consequences of therapist dishonesty	21
Maladaptive defense mechanisms moderate treatment outcome in 6 months versus 12 months dialectical-behavior therapy for borderline personality disorder	21
Smaller effects matter in the psychological therapies: 25 years on from Wampold et al. (1997)	19
The Cooper-Norcross Inventory of Preferences: Measurement invariance across international datasets and languages	18
A pilot and feasibility study of Sage: A couple therapy for borderline personality disorder	18
Therapists’ and patients’ experiences of using patients’ self-reported data in ongoing psychotherapy processes—A systematic review and meta-analysis of qualitative studies	15
Predictors of homework engagement in group CBT for social anxiety: client beliefs about homework, its consequences, group cohesion, and working alliance	15
Vindicating pollyanna? An experimental test of cognitive restructuring and positive thinking interventions	14
Patient motivation in group metacognitive therapy for generalized anxiety disorder	14
Group schema therapy for personality disorders: Systematic review, research agenda and treatment implications	14
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	14
“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	14
Effectiveness of an online dialectical behavior therapy skills training in adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A randomized controlled trial	13
Development and validation of countertransference feeling and behavior awareness measures in an Italian and American clinician sample	13
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	13
Enhancing emotion regulation	12
The therapeutic effects of the therapists’ ability to pass their patients’ tests in psychotherapy	12
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:	12

The effects of emotion-focused skills training on parental mental health, emotion regulation and self-efficacy: Mediating processes between parents and children	12
Feasibility of generic, short, and easy-to-use assessment of psychological distress during psychotherapy: Longitudinal measurement invariance of CORE-10 and -OM	12
Statement of Retraction: Examining therapy dynamics and session outcome using differential equations model and multilevel data disaggregation	11
Therapist verification of patient self-concepts as a responsive precondition for early alliance development and subsequent introject change	11
Direct retrospective measurement of therapeutic changes: an example using the Czech version of the Questionnaire of Personal Changes (Q-PC)	11
The competence development of German psychotherapy trainees: A naturalistic, longitudinal and multidimensional outcome study	11
Therapeutic techniques and session impact: A practice-research network study in private practice	11
First impressions matter: The influence of initial assessments on psychological treatment initiation and subsequent dropout	11
Development of the Cultural Humility Scale—Short Form (CHS-SF)	11
Testing of the therapist to reduce maladaptive interactional patterns: Categorizing patients’ tests	10
Patient perspectives on working with preferences in psychotherapy: A consensual qualitative research study	10
Two kinds of sudden gains in brief psychotherapy	10
Individual treatment selection for patients with post-traumatic stress disorder: External validation of a personalised advantage index	10
Between- and within-person effects of affective experiences on coping in CBT: Direct effects and interplay with therapeutic alliance and resource activation	10
Examining therapist estimation of client working alliance and client symptom outcome using truth and bias model and response surface analysis	10
Investigating predictors of treatment response in Dialectical Behavior Therapy for borderline personality disorder using LASSO regression	9
Exploring Therapist Self-Efficacy Change Profiles Using Latent Growth Curve Analysis	9
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Correction	9
Relationship between outcomes and processes in patients with chronic low back pain plus depressive symptoms: idiographic analyses within a randomized controlled trial	9
Physiological synchronization and innovative moments in psychotherapy: A single-case study of micro-process	9
Learning from mothers who received focused parent–infant psychotherapy for the treatment of their child’s regulatory disorders	9
Effectiveness of emotion-focused therapy: Main results of a practice–research network study	9
Transgender and gender diverse adults’ self-reported mental health diagnoses, engagement in mental health services, and perceptions of therapists	9
Within- and between-session changes of in-session reflective functioning of mothers in dyadic parent–infant psychotherapy	9
Alliance ruptures and resolutions in short-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy for adolescent depression: An empirical case study	8
Renegotiating tasks or goals as rupture repair: A task analysis in a cognitive–behavioral therapy for personality disorder	8
Emotional processing during the therapy for complicated grief	8
A multi-modality and multi-dyad approach to measuring flexibility in psychotherapy	8
Interpersonal factors in internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy for depression: Attachment style and alliance with the program and with the therapist	8
The use of mentalization-based techniques in online psychodynamic child psychotherapy	8
Reactivity and stability in facial expressions as an indicator of therapeutic alliance strength	8
The influence of deliberate practice on skill performance in therapeutic practice: A systematic review of early studies	8
Statement of Retraction: Therapist Immediacy: The association with Working Alliance, Real Relationship, Session Quality and Time in Psychotherapy	8
Group schema therapy: The temporal relationship between early maladaptive schemas and global psychological distress	8
Towards a taxonomy of mechanisms of change? Findings from an expert survey on the association between common factors and specific techniques in psychotherapy	8
Community belongingness during COVID-19 predicts anxiety and depression treatment change in college students	7
Commentary on Loades et al. (2022): The landscape of adolescent depression	7
An interdisciplinary multimodal integrative healthcare program for somatic symptom disorder, with predominant (spinal) pain	7
Client-Identified Impacts of Helpful and Hindering Events in Psychotherapy: A Qualitative Meta-analysis	7
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	7
Moments of change: Clients’ immediate experiences when sharing emotions in psychotherapy	7
The implications of the Dodo bird verdict for training in psychotherapy: prioritizing process observation	7
Socioeconomic status, psychotherapy duration, and return to work from disability due to common mental disorders	7
Hand movements that change during psychotherapy and their relation to therapeutic outcome: An analysis of individual and simultaneous movements	7
Quality of the therapeutic working alliance as a factor in intensive residential treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder	7
Harnessing implementation science to integrate ambulatory assessment data into clinical practice	7
From seeing difficult behaviour to recognizing legitimate needs – A qualitative study of mothers' experiences of participating in a Circle of Security Parenting program in a public mental health setti	7
Group member attachment style interacts with actor and partner helping alliance to predict decreasing binge eating episodes	7
Project ASPIRE: A feasibility randomized controlled trial of a brief intervention for reducing risk of depression and alcohol-related harms among South African adolescents	7
Negative effects during multicomponent group-based treatment: A multisite study	7

Unraveling the optimal balance of problem-related affective experiences and need satisfaction in cognitive-behavioral therapy: A response surface analysis	7
Development and validation of a psychotherapy change motivation scale	6
Therapists’ responsiveness in the process of ruptures and resolution: Are patients and therapists on the same page?	6
Treatment outcomes and patient satisfaction of a virtual partial hospital program: A mixed-method study	6
Bridging the feedback implementation gap: A comparison of empirical and rational decision rules in naturalistic psychotherapy	6
Emotional arousal and reflective functioning among parents participating in attachment-based family therapy for LGBTQ+ young adults and their nonaccepting parents	6
Symptom-specific improvement across therapies and their putative mediators: A mediation network intervention analysis	6
Clinical factors and early life experiences associated with therapeutic alliance development in treatment for depression or binge eating	6
The relationship between general psychopathology in young people with family functioning and engagement with psychotherapy	6
Comparing helpful and hindering processes in good and poor outcome cases: A qualitative metasynthesis of eight Hermeneutic Single Case Efficacy Design studies	6
Correction	6
Shedding light on the effects of supportive techniques on nonverbal synchrony and their moderators in psychotherapy for depression	5
The therapeutic alliance and dropout in cognitive behavioral therapy of depression	5
Relational depth from the perspective of the psychotherapy dyad: Psychometric properties of the Relational Depth Frequency Scale	5
Prediction of adolescent psychotherapy outcomes using youth- and caregiver-reported symptoms data	5
Individual behavioral activation in the treatment of depression: A meta analysis	5
Development of a new observer-rated measure to assess the real relationship in psychotherapy sessions	5
Change in reflective functioning in interpersonal psychotherapy and cognitive behavioral therapy for major depressive disorder	5
Using classification trees to identify psychotherapy patients at risk for poor treatment adherence	5
Psychotherapy process research: Identifying productive in-session processes to enhance treatment outcomes and therapist responsiveness	5
Participant factors as correlates of patients’ psychotherapy outcome expectation: A meta-analytic and box-count review	5
Emotion cascade: Harnessing emotional sequences to enhance chair work interventions and reduce self-criticism	5
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	5
Toward an experimental analysis of verbal shaping in psychotherapy	5
Therapist competence, homework engagement, and client characteristics in CBT for youth depression: A study of mediation and moderation in a community-based trial	5
Strength-based methods – a narrative review and comparative multilevel meta-analysis of positive interventions in clinical settings	5
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	5
Self-invalidation in borderline personality disorder: A content analysis of patients’ verbalizations	5
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	5
Race, racial matching, and cultural understanding as predictors of treatment engagement in youth mental health services	5
Predicting dropout from psychological treatment using different machine learning algorithms, resampling methods, and sample sizes	5
Enhancing the effect of psychotherapy through systematic client feedback in outpatient mental healthcare: A cluster randomized trial.	5
An examination of therapists’ professional characteristics as moderators of the effect of feedback on psychological treatment outcomes	5