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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Routine Outcome Monitoring (ROM) and Feedback: Research Review and Recommendations	43
Prevalence of meditation-related adverse effects in a population-based sample in the United States	39
rMEA: An R package to assess nonverbal synchronization in motion energy analysis time-series	37
It's the therapist and the treatment: The structure of common therapeutic relationship factors	33
Systematic review and meta-analyses of the long-term efficacy of narrative exposure therapy for adults, children and perpetrators	31
Mindfulness-based interventions among people of color: A systematic review and meta-analysis	27
Indirect effect of patient outcome expectation on improvement through alliance quality: A meta-analysis	27
Investigating the dose–response effect in open-ended psychotherapy	22
Identifying CBT non-response among OCD outpatients: A machine-learning approach	22
Enhancing the effect of psychotherapy through systematic client feedback in outpatient mental healthcare: A cluster randomized trial.	21
Delivering tele-chairwork: A qualitative survey of expert therapists	19
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	19
Patient alliance with the program predicts treatment outcomes whereas alliance with the therapist predicts adherence in internet-based therapy for panic disorder	19
Client-Identified Impacts of Helpful and Hindering Events in Psychotherapy: A Qualitative Meta-analysis	18
Machine learning: A primer for psychotherapy researchers	17
What too strict a method obscures about the validity of outcome measures	15
Countertransference types and their relation to rupture and repair in the alliance	15
Predictors of dropout among adolescents with borderline personality disorder attending mentalization-based group treatment	15
Strength-based methods – a narrative review and comparative multilevel meta-analysis of positive interventions in clinical settings	15
For whom should psychotherapy focus on problem coping? A machine learning algorithm for treatment personalization	14
Therapists’ and patients’ experiences of using patients’ self-reported data in ongoing psychotherapy processes—A systematic review and meta-analysis of qualitative studies	14
The influence of extra-therapeutic social support on the association between therapeutic bond and treatment outcome	14
The therapeutic relationship in child psychotherapy: integrating the perspectives of children, parents and therapists	13
“I didn’t have to look her in the eyes”—participants’ experiences of the therapeutic relationship in internet-based psychodynamic therapy for adolescent depression	12
Negative experiences in psychotherapy from clients’ perspective: A qualitative meta-analysis	12

Facilitating dyadic synchrony in psychotherapy sessions: Systematic review and meta-analysis	12
Randomized controlled trial of Regulation Focused Psychotherapy for children: A manualized psychodynamic treatment for externalizing behaviors	12
Integrating theory-based and data-driven methods to case conceptualization: A functional analysis approach with ecological momentary assessment	12
Process-Based psychotherapy personalization: considering causality with continuous-time dynamic modeling	11
Individual behavioral activation in the treatment of depression: A meta analysis	11
Understanding routine outcome monitoring and clinical feedback in context: Introduction to the special section	10
The therapeutic effects of the therapists’ ability to pass their patients’ tests in psychotherapy	10
When to disclose and to whom? examining within- and between-client moderators of therapist self disclosure-outcome associations in psychodynamic psychotherapy	10
Is there an elephant in the room? A study of convergences and divergences of adult attachment measures commonly used in clinical studies	10
Does the working alliance mediate the therapist competence-outcome relationship in cognitive behavior therapy for depression?	10
Emotion-focused group therapy among women with premenstrual dysphoric disorder: A randomized clinical trial	10
Deception detection and emotion recognition: Investigating F.A.C.E. software	10
Physiological activation and co-activation in an imagery-based treatment for test anxiety	10
Group-based DBT skills training modules are linked to independent and additive improvements in emotion regulation in a heterogeneous outpatient sample	10
Assessing beliefs about emotion generation and change: The conceptualisation, development, and validation of the Cognitive Mediation Beliefs Questionnaire (CMBQ)	10
“Like a huge weight lifted off my shoulders”: Exploring young peoples’ experiences of treatment in a pilot trial of trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy	9
Smaller effects matter in the psychological therapies: 25 years on from Wampold et al. (1997)	9
How to manage endings in unsuccessful therapy: A qualitative comparison of youth and clinician perspectives	9
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	9
Adverse events in psychotherapy randomized controlled trials: A systematic review	9
Trajectories of change in general psychopathology levels among depressed adolescents in short-term psychotherapies	9
Clinician perceptions of nomothetic and individualized patient-reported outcome measures in measurement-based care	8
Effectiveness of brief group transdiagnostic therapy for emotional disorders in primary care: A randomized controlled trial identifying predictors of outcome	8
Unpacking the active ingredients of internet-based psychodynamic therapy for adolescents	8
Othering refugees: Psychotherapists’ attitudes toward patients with and without a refugee background	8
Race, racial matching, and cultural understanding as predictors of treatment engagement in youth mental health services	8
An exploration of the relationships between patient application of CBT skills and therapeutic outcomes during a two-week CBT treatment	8
Multimodal affect analysis of psychodynamic play therapy	8
Enhancing emotion regulation	8
Change in avoidance and negative grief-related cognitions mediates treatment outcome in older adults with prolonged grief disorder	8
The relationships among working alliance, group cohesion and homework engagement in group cognitive behaviour therapy for social anxiety disorder	8
Therapeutic distance in client-therapist narratives: client attachment, therapist attachment, and dyadic effects	7
Working with emotion predicts sudden gains during experiential therapy for depression	7
Corrective attachment episodes in attachment-based family therapy: the power of enactment	7
Therapeutic relationships in cognitive behavioral therapy: Theory and recent research	7
Matching research and practice: Prediction of individual patient progress and dropout risk for basic routine outcome monitoring	7
Comorbidity as a moderator of the differential efficacy of transdiagnostic behavior therapy and behavioral activation for affective disorders	7
Hand movements that change during psychotherapy and their relation to therapeutic outcome: An analysis of individual and simultaneous movements	7
Limited reparenting as a corrective emotional experience in schema therapy: A preliminary task analysis	7
Some directions for research and theory on countertransference	7
Treatment outcomes and patient satisfaction of a virtual partial hospital program: A mixed-method study	7
Self-compassion in eating disorders and childhood trauma: A study of within-person effects in a randomized controlled trial	6
Mentalization-enhancing therapeutic interventions in the psychotherapy of anorexia nervosa: An analysis of use and influence on patients’ mentalizing capacity	6
Outcomes of brief versions of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for diagnostically heterogeneous groups in a routine care setting	6
Change in reflective functioning in interpersonal psychotherapy and cognitive behavioral therapy for major depressive disorder	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
Mechanisms of change in multicomponent group-based treatment for patients suffering from medically unexplained physical symptoms	6
Negative effects during multicomponent group-based treatment: A multisite study	6
Drawing causal inferences from randomized controlled trials in psychotherapy research	6
How qualitative methods advance the study of causation in psychotherapy research	6

The person of the therapist: therapists’ personal characteristics as predictors of alliance and treatment outcomes	6
Psychological symptoms, early maladaptive schemas and schema modes: predictors of the outcome of group schema therapy in patients with personality disorders	6
The therapeutic alliance and dropout in cognitive behavioral therapy of depression	6
Applying precision methods to treatment selection for moderate/severe depression in person-centered experiential therapy or cognitive behavioral therapy	6
Depression symptom clusters in adolescents: A latent class analysis in a clinical sample	6
The effects of emotion-focused skills training on parental mental health, emotion regulation and self-efficacy: Mediating processes between parents and children	6
Predicting dropout from psychological treatment using different machine learning algorithms, resampling methods, and sample sizes	6
Do specific modules of cognitive behavioral therapy for depression have measurable effects on youth internalizing symptoms? An idiographic analysis	6
What if we wait? Using synthetic waiting lists to estimate treatment effects in routine outcome data	5
Mimicry in psychotherapy – an actor partner model of therapists’ and patients’ non-verbal behavior and its effects on the working alliance	5
Development and validation of an 8-item version of the Real Relationship Inventory–Client form	5
Alliance ruptures and resolutions in short-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy for adolescent depression: An empirical case study	5
Mindfulness-based schema therapy and forgiveness therapy among women affected by infidelity: A randomized clinical trial	5
Patient perspectives on working with preferences in psychotherapy: A consensual qualitative research study	5
Therapists' perception of the working alliance, real relationship and therapeutic presence in in-person therapy versus tele-therapy	5
Misery loves company: Predictors of treatment response to a loneliness intervention	5
Innovative moments in recovered cases treated with the unified protocol for transdiagnostic treatment of emotional disorders	5
Causality in psychotherapy research: Towards evidential pluralism	5
Research evidence on psychotherapist skills and methods: Foreword and afterword	5
Therapeutic relationships in cognitive behavioral therapy: Tailoring the therapeutic alliance	5
Association of patients’ pre-therapy strengths and alliance in outpatient psychotherapy: A multilevel growth curve analysis	5
Therapist affiliation and hostility in cognitive–behavioral therapy with and without motivational interviewing for severe generalized anxiety disorder	5
Meditation, mindfulness, and acceptance methods in psychotherapy: A systematic review	5
Preferences for panic control treatment and panic focused psychodynamic psychotherapy for panic disorder – who chooses which and why?	5
Client perspectives on psychotherapy failure	5
Reconstructing dropout: Building from multiple definitions, therapist effects, and center effects	5
“I am strong and I can get on with my life”: The subjective experience of recovery of patients treated for depression	5
Four perspectives on traumatized youths’ therapeutic alliance: Correspondence and outcome predictions	5
Predicting optimal treatment outcomes using the Personalized Advantage Index for patients with persistent somatic symptoms	5
Fluctuation in the assimilation of problematic experiences: A comparison of two contrasting cases of Emotion Focused Therapy	5
Lessons from ten years of psychotherapy process research	5