OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Psychotherapy Research is 6. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Cooper-Norcross Inventory of Preferences: Measurement invariance across international datasets and languages	155
Self-efficacy, motivation, social support, and alliance as predictors of youth psychotherapy outcomes in usual care	81
A pilot and feasibility study of Sage: A couple therapy for borderline personality disorder	69
Target validation in dialectical behavior therapy skills group: Emotion regulation, mindfulness, and distress tolerance as mediators of outcome	61
Client perspectives on psychotherapy failure	55
Hope predicts long-term well-being following cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety and related disorders	38
Maladaptive defense mechanisms moderate treatment outcome in 6 months versus 12 months dialectical-behavior therapy for borderline personality disorder	37
Agreement in patient-therapist alliance ratings and its relation to dropout and outcome in a large sample of cognitive behavioral therapy for panic disorder	37
The association between therapist internal relational models, professional self-doubt, and coping strategies and the process and outcome of psychotherapy	35
Smaller effects matter in the psychological therapies: 25 years on from Wampold et al. (1997)	34
“Picking up the pieces”: Patients’ retrospective reflections of rupture resolution episodes during treatment	31
Profiles of mentalizing in individuals with antisocial behavior: comparing state- and trait-mentalizing	29
Therapists’ and patients’ experiences of using patients’ self-reported data in ongoing psychotherapy processes—A systematic review and meta-analysis of qualitative studies	28
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	28
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	27
Effectiveness of an online dialectical behavior therapy skills training in adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A randomized controlled trial	27
Vindicating pollyanna? An experimental test of cognitive restructuring and positive thinking interventions	25
Breakthroughs in emotional awareness: Exploring sudden gains in internet-based psychodynamic therapy for depressed adolescents	25
Predictors of homework engagement in group CBT for social anxiety: client beliefs about homework, its consequences, group cohesion, and working alliance	25
Targeting mechanisms of change as a path to precision psychotherapy for community settings	24
Group schema therapy for personality disorders: Systematic review, research agenda and treatment implications	24
“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	24
Development and validation of countertransference feeling and behavior awareness measures in an Italian and American clinician sample	23
Exploring the attitudes toward receiving information on potential negative effects of psychological treatments: A mixed-methods study	22
Psychotherapist’s Nonverbal Coordination Scale: Introducing a New Measurement Tool for Child Psychotherapy	21

Patient perspectives on working with preferences in psychotherapy: A consensual qualitative research study	21
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:	21
Personalized and optimal treatment estimated by a value search method in a randomized clinical trial with psychodynamic versus cognitive behavioral therapy for depression	19
The effects of emotion-focused skills training on parental mental health, emotion regulation and self-efficacy: Mediating processes between parents and children	19
Therapist verification of patient self-concepts as a responsive precondition for early alliance development and subsequent introject change	18
Statement of Retraction: Examining therapy dynamics and session outcome using differential equations model and multilevel data disaggregation	18
Therapeutic techniques and session impact: A practice-research network study in private practice	17
Development of the Cultural Humility Scale—Short Form (CHS-SF)	17
Individual treatment selection for patients with post-traumatic stress disorder: External validation of a personalised advantage index	17
The therapeutic effects of the therapists’ ability to pass their patients’ tests in psychotherapy	16
Direct retrospective measurement of therapeutic changes: An example using the Czech version of the Questionnaire of Personal Changes (Q-PC)	16
Investigating predictors of treatment response in Dialectical Behavior Therapy for borderline personality disorder using LASSO regression	15
Enhancing emotion regulation	15
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Correction	15
Are current interventions effective in alleviating multidimensional perfectionism in children and adolescents? A meta-analytic review	15
Testing of the therapist to reduce maladaptive interactional patterns: Categorizing patients’ tests	15
First impressions matter: The influence of initial assessments on psychological treatment initiation and subsequent dropout	15
Within- and between-session changes of in-session reflective functioning of mothers in dyadic parent–infant psychotherapy	14
Relationship between outcomes and processes in patients with chronic low back pain plus depressive symptoms: Idiographic analyses within a randomized controlled trial	14
Effectiveness of emotion-focused therapy: Main results of a practice–research network study	14
Client expectation about counseling, working alliance, and symptom outcome: A longitudinal investigation in China	14
Changes in personality functioning following psychotherapy: Utilizing machine learning to identify predictors in a psychodynamic psychotherapy sample	14
Examining therapist estimation of client working alliance and client symptom outcome using truth and bias model and response surface analysis	13
Supervised therapist and supervisor impact on client therapy outcomes	13
Assessing microprocess clinical discrimination in psychodynamic psychotherapy: A vignette-based approach with expert consensus and sensitivity to structured exposure	13
Correction Notice	13
Between- and within-person effects of affective experiences on coping in CBT: Direct effects and interplay with therapeutic alliance and resource activation	13
Facing the fog: barriers and facilitators to communicating uncertainty among psychologists	13
Physiological synchronization and innovative moments in psychotherapy: A single-case study of micro-process	13
Collaborative working models of alliance rupture repair: A theory-building case study	12
The influence of deliberate practice on skill performance in therapeutic practice: A systematic review of early studies	12
Statement of Retraction: Therapist Immediacy: The association with Working Alliance, Real Relationship, Session Quality and Time in Psychotherapy	12
Interpersonal factors in internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy for depression: Attachment style and alliance with the program and with the therapist	11
Reactivity and stability in facial expressions as an indicator of therapeutic alliance strength	11
Developing facilitative interpersonal skills: A randomized controlled study of an apprenticeship training for first-year clinical psychology students	11
The use of mentalization-based techniques in online psychodynamic child psychotherapy	11
Group schema therapy: The temporal relationship between early maladaptive schemas and global psychological distress	11
When and Under What Circumstances Does Neuroticism Change in the Unified Protocol?	11
Psychodynamic psychotherapists’ perceptions of change: A phenomenological analysis	11
Towards a taxonomy of mechanisms of change? Findings from an expert survey on the association between common factors and specific techniques in psychotherapy	11
Baseline social inhibition and age as moderators of the within-patient alliance-outcome link in treatments for depression	10
Commentary on Loades et al. (2022): The landscape of adolescent depression	10
The implications of the Dodo bird verdict for training in psychotherapy: prioritizing process observation	10
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	10
From fear toward confidence: Understanding change in clinical concerns and self-efficacy in couple and family therapy students	10
Dropping out of therapy in context of an RCT: a qualitative analysis	10
A multi-modality and multi-dyad approach to measuring flexibility in psychotherapy	10
Conceptual problems and questionable evidence in defining non-inferiority margins – a reply to Flückiger et al.	10
“It’s like having that supervisor in the room”: Examining AI as a reflective partner	9
Harnessing implementation science to integrate ambulatory assessment data into clinical practice	9

Development and validation of a psychotherapy change motivation scale	9
The therapist effect in adult psychotherapy: a systematic scoping review of reviews	9
Socioeconomic status, psychotherapy duration, and return to work from disability due to common mental disorders	9
Out of sight, out of mind? Intersession experiences as protective and risk indicators of suicidal ideation in the context of outpatient treatment	9
Targeted Learning for Optimal Patient Assignment to Psychotherapy	9
Correction	9
Moments of change: Clients’ immediate experiences when sharing emotions in psychotherapy	9
Group member attachment style interacts with actor and partner helping alliance to predict decreasing binge eating episodes	9
Project ASPIRE: A feasibility randomized controlled trial of a brief intervention for reducing risk of depression and alcohol-related harms among South African adolescents	9
Patients’ perspective on an optimal therapeutic alliance; facilitating engagement in treatment of antisocial personality disorder	9
Bridging the feedback implementation gap: A comparison of empirical and rational decision rules in naturalistic psychotherapy	9
An interdisciplinary multimodal integrative healthcare program for somatic symptom disorder, with predominant (spinal) pain	9
Effectiveness of emotion-focused skills training (EFST) for parents: A randomized controlled trial investigating remission of mental health diagnosis and symptom reduction in children	8
The relationship between general psychopathology in young people with family functioning and engagement with psychotherapy	8
Symptom-specific improvement across therapies and their putative mediators: A mediation network intervention analysis	8
The effectiveness and efficiency of brief strategic therapy: A comparison of in-person, online, and hybrid treatment delivery modalities	8
Capturing both sides of the therapeutic dyad: A validation study of the revised rupture resolution rating system (3RSv2022)	8
Moderators and predictors of treatment outcome for OCD: A comparison of cognitive behavioral therapy Exposure Response Prevention to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy	8
Emotional arousal and reflective functioning among parents participating in attachment-based family therapy for LGBTQ+ young adults and their nonaccepting parents	8
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
Evidence of Measurement Invariance in the Working Alliance Inventory Across In-Person and Videoconferencing Psychotherapy	8
“I’ve built a good life for myself”: A qualitative study of patient-perceived change in transference-focused psychotherapy	8
Cognitive behavioral therapy and emotion-focused therapy for depression in a routine care setting: A randomized controlled pilot trial	8
Quality of the therapeutic working alliance as a factor in intensive residential treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder	7
Clinical factors and early life experiences associated with therapeutic alliance development in treatment for depression or binge eating	7
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	7
Prediction of adolescent psychotherapy outcomes using youth- and caregiver-reported symptoms data	7
Race, racial matching, and cultural understanding as predictors of treatment engagement in youth mental health services	7
Unraveling the optimal balance of problem-related affective experiences and need satisfaction in cognitive-behavioral therapy: A response surface analysis	7
Therapists’ responsiveness in the process of ruptures and resolution: Are patients and therapists on the same page?	7
Using classification trees to identify psychotherapy patients at risk for poor treatment adherence	7
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	7
Emotion cascade: Harnessing emotional sequences to enhance chair work interventions and reduce self-criticism	7
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	7
Relational depth as predictor of mental health outcomes in psychotherapy: random intercept cross-lagged analyses	7
Participant factors as correlates of patients’ psychotherapy outcome expectation: A meta-analytic and box-count review	7
Psychotherapy process research: Identifying productive in-session processes to enhance treatment outcomes and therapist responsiveness	7
Individual behavioral activation in the treatment of depression: A meta analysis	6
Respiratory sinus arrhythmia as a within-session biomarker in depression psychotherapy: integrating resting RSA and RSA reactivity	6
Exploring the factor structure of a Chinese version of the CORE-OM: Insights from network approach and bifactor modeling	6
What is known about mediators, moderators and predictors of change in psychodynamic internet-delivered interventions for mental health? A systematic review and narrative synthesis	6
Strength-based methods – a narrative review and comparative multilevel meta-analysis of positive interventions in clinical settings	6
Using the experience sampling method to support clinical practice: An illustration with problematic cannabis use	6
Straight, Bumpy, or Detoured: Three roads through family-based treatment for Anorexia Nervosa – a qualitative study of parents’ experiences	6
Predicting dropout from psychological treatment using different machine learning algorithms, resampling methods, and sample sizes	6
Development of a new observer-rated measure to assess the real relationship in psychotherapy sessions	6
Italian versions of the rupture resolution rating system and the working alliance inventory observer short form: preliminary reliability and convergent validity	6
An examination of therapists’ professional characteristics as moderators of the effect of feedback on psychological treatment outcomes	6
Therapist competence, homework engagement, and client characteristics in CBT for youth depression: A study of mediation and moderation in a community-based trial	6