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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
A scoping review of machine learning in psychotherapy research	82
Personalized treatment selection in routine care: Integrating machine learning and statistical algorithms to recommend cognitive behavioral or psychodynamic therapy	48
Prevalence of meditation-related adverse effects in a population-based sample in the United States	32
Feasibility and utility of idiographic models in the clinic: A pilot study	30
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	27
It's the therapist and the treatment: The structure of common therapeutic relationship factors	25
Indirect effect of patient outcome expectation on improvement through alliance quality: A meta-analysis	24
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
Routine Outcome Monitoring (ROM) and Feedback: Research Review and Recommendations	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
Just in time crisis response: suicide alert system for telemedicine psychotherapy settings	19
Mindfulness-based interventions among people of color: A systematic review and meta-analysis	19
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
A randomized controlled trial of a smartphone-based application for the treatment of anxiety	17
Do therapist effects really impact estimates of within-patient mechanisms of change? A Monte Carlo simulation study	16
Enhancing the effect of psychotherapy through systematic client feedback in outpatient mental healthcare: A cluster randomized trial.	16
Machine learning: A primer for psychotherapy researchers	15
Clinical dilemmas of routine outcome monitoring and clinical feedback: A qualitative study of patient experiences	15
The factor structure of the Working Alliance Inventory short-form in youth psychotherapy: an empirical investigation	15
Compassion focused therapy in a university counseling and psychological services center: A feasibility trial of a new standardized group manual	15

Patient alliance with the program predicts treatment outcomes whereas alliance with the therapist predicts adherence in internet-based therapy for panic disorder	15
Discussing measurement-based care with patients: An analysis of clinician-patient dyads	14
Development of therapeutic alliance in mentalization-based treatment—Goals, Bonds, and Tasks in a specialized treatment for borderline personality disorder	14
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	13
Changes in the level of personality functioning in inpatient psychotherapy	13
The therapeutic relationship in child psychotherapy: integrating the perspectives of children, parents and therapists	12
Psychotherapy with refugees—Supportive and hindering elements	12
Countertransference types and their relation to rupture and repair in the alliance	12
What too strict a method obscures about the validity of outcome measures	12
Perspectives on an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) based program for patients with inflammatory bowel disease and comorbid anxiety and/or depressive symptoms	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
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
For whom should psychotherapy focus on problem coping? A machine learning algorithm for treatment personalization	11
Client-Identified Impacts of Helpful and Hindering Events in Psychotherapy: A Qualitative Meta-analysis	11
Patient factors predict therapists’ emotional countertransference differently depending on whether therapists use transference work in psychodynamic therapy	11
Randomized controlled trial of Regulation Focused Psychotherapy for children: A manualized psychodynamic treatment for externalizing behaviors	10
Predictors of dropout among adolescents with borderline personality disorder attending mentalization-based group treatment	10
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
Physiological activation and co-activation in an imagery-based treatment for test anxiety	9
Is there an elephant in the room? A study of convergences and divergences of adult attachment measures commonly used in clinical studies	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
Factors affecting the implementation of an outcome measurement feedback system in youth mental health settings	9
Does the working alliance mediate the therapist competence-outcome relationship in cognitive behavior therapy for depression?	9
Assessing beliefs about emotion generation and change: The conceptualisation, development, and validation of the Cognitive Mediation Beliefs Questionnaire (CMBQ)	9
“Like a huge weight lifted off my shoulders”: Exploring young peoples’ experiences of treatment in a pilot trial of trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy	8
Group-based DBT skills training modules are linked to independent and additive improvements in emotion regulation in a heterogeneous outpatient sample	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
Effectiveness of brief group transdiagnostic therapy for emotional disorders in primary care: A randomized controlled trial identifying predictors of outcome	7
Some directions for research and theory on countertransference	7
The role of the working alliance in psychological treatment of substance use disorder outpatients	7
Multimodal affect analysis of psychodynamic play therapy	7
The therapeutic effects of the therapists’ ability to pass their patients’ tests in psychotherapy	7
When to disclose and to whom? examining within- and between-client moderators of therapist self disclosure-outcome associations in psychodynamic psychotherapy	7
Change in avoidance and negative grief-related cognitions mediates treatment outcome in older adults with prolonged grief disorder	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	7
Hand movements that change during psychotherapy and their relation to therapeutic outcome: An analysis of individual and simultaneous movements	7
Trajectories of change in general psychopathology levels among depressed adolescents in short-term psychotherapies	7
Corrective attachment episodes in attachment-based family therapy: the power of enactment	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
Deception detection and emotion recognition: Investigating F.A.C.E. software	7
Psychological intervention change measurement in Latin America: Where from? Where to?	7
Unpacking the active ingredients of internet-based psychodynamic therapy for adolescents	6
Process-Based psychotherapy personalization: considering causality with continuous-time dynamic modeling	6
Working with emotion predicts sudden gains during experiential therapy for depression	6
Limited reparenting as a corrective emotional experience in schema therapy: A preliminary task analysis	6
The therapeutic alliance and dropout in cognitive behavioral therapy of depression	6

Depression symptom clusters in adolescents: A latent class analysis in a clinical sample	6
Integrating theory-based and data-driven methods to case conceptualization: A functional analysis approach with ecological momentary assessment	6
Clinician perceptions of nomothetic and individualized patient-reported outcome measures in measurement-based care	6
Exploring the temporal associations between avoidance behavior and cognitions during the course of cognitive behavioral therapy for clients with symptoms of social anxiety disorder	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
The alliance mediates outcome in cognitive–behavioral therapy for social anxiety disorder, but not in attention bias modification	6
Predictors and moderators of treatment dropout in cognitive-behavioral and psychodynamic therapies for panic disorder	6
Emotion-focused group therapy among women with premenstrual dysphoric disorder: A randomized clinical trial	6
Negative effects during multicomponent group-based treatment: A multisite study	5
Drawing causal inferences from randomized controlled trials in psychotherapy research	5
Mindfulness-based schema therapy and forgiveness therapy among women affected by infidelity: A randomized clinical trial	5
Strength-based methods – a narrative review and comparative multilevel meta-analysis of positive interventions in clinical settings	5
Psychological symptoms, early maladaptive schemas and schema modes: predictors of the outcome of group schema therapy in patients with personality disorders	5
The relationships among working alliance, group cohesion and homework engagement in group cognitive behaviour therapy for social anxiety disorder	5
Facilitating dyadic synchrony in psychotherapy sessions: Systematic review and meta-analysis	5
Preferences for panic control treatment and panic focused psychodynamic psychotherapy for panic disorder – who chooses which and why?	5
Smaller effects matter in the psychological therapies: 25 years on from Wampold et al. (1997)	5
Why setbacks are compatible with progress in assimilating problematic themes: Illustrations from the case of Alicia	5
Mechanisms of change in multicomponent group-based treatment for patients suffering from medically unexplained physical symptoms	5
Othering refugees: Psychotherapists’ attitudes toward patients with and without a refugee background	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
Trajectories of changes in distress in counseling center clients: a replication study	5
Treatment outcomes and patient satisfaction of a virtual partial hospital program: A mixed-method study	5