OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Psychotherapy Research is 4. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
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
Is symptom outcome the whole story?—A multilevel meta-analysis of systemic therapy for adults including family system functioning	5
Participant factors as correlates of patients’ psychotherapy outcome expectation: A meta-analytic and box-count review	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
Effectiveness of brief group transdiagnostic therapy for emotional disorders in primary care: A randomized controlled trial identifying predictors of outcome	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
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
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
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