OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy is 1. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Practitioner review: health anxiety in children and young people in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic	39
Transdiagnostic perspective on psychological inflexibility and emotional dysregulation	35
Are young people with primary social anxiety disorder less likely to recover following generic CBT compared to young people with other primary anxiety disorders? A systematic review and meta-analysis	25
Targeting intrusive imagery using a competing task technique: a case study	24
Physical exercise as an add-on treatment to cognitive behavioural therapy for anxiety: a systematic review	20
The barriers, benefits and training needs of clinicians delivering psychological therapy via video	19
Effectiveness of a culturally adapted cognitive behavioural therapy-based guided self-help (CACBT-GSH) intervention to reduce social anxiety and enhance self-esteem in adolescents: a randomized contro	17
Examining the roles of metacognitive beliefs and maladaptive aspects of perfectionism in depression and anxiety	15
Contribution of executive functions to eating behaviours in obesity and eating disorders	15
Positive schemas in schema therapy with older adults: clinical implications and research suggestions	14
A meta-synthesis of qualitative studies of the link between anxiety, depression and perfectionism: implications for treatment	14
Reconsidering perfect: a qualitative study of the experiences of internet-based cognitive behaviour therapy for perfectionism	13
A pilot study of dialectical behaviour therapy skills training for autistic adults	13
Treatment barriers, preferences and histories of individuals with symptoms of body dysmorphic disorder	13
Culturally adapted trauma-focused CBT-based guided self-help (CatCBT GSH) for female victims of domestic violence in Pakistan: feasibility randomized controlled trial	13
Cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia for patients with co-morbid generalized anxiety disorder: an open trial on clinical outcomes and putative mechanisms	12
Cognitive analysis of specific threat beliefs and safety-seeking behaviours in generalised anxiety disorder: revisiting the cognitive theory of anxiety disorders	12
iMAgery focused psychological therapy for persecutory delusions in PSychosis (iMAPS): a multiple baseline experimental case series	12
Engagement with smartphone-delivered behavioural activation interventions: a study of the MoodMission smartphone application	11
Frequency and level of self-efficacy predict the effectiveness of therapist- and self-guided exposure in obsessive compulsive disorder	11
Impact of attachment imagery on paranoia and mood: evidence from two single case studies	11
A compassionate imagery intervention for patients with persecutory delusions	10
COVID-19 related differences in the uptake and effects of internet-based cognitive behavioural therapy for symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder	10
Using 360-degree videos for virtual reality exposure in CBT for panic disorder with agoraphobia: a feasibility study	9
The comparison between CBT focused on perfectionism and CBT focused on emotion regulation for individuals with depression and anxiety disorders and dysfunctional perfectionism: a randomized controlled	9

Exploring emotions and cognitions in hoarding: a Q-methodology analysis	8
The Generic BFRB Scale-8 (GBS-8): a transdiagnostic scale to measure the severity of body-focused repetitive behaviours	7
Imagery rescripting and negative self-imagery in social anxiety disorder: a systematic literature review	7
Targeting fear of positive evaluation in patients with social anxiety disorder via a brief cognitive behavioural therapy protocol: a proof-of-principle study	7
The effects of self-critical rumination on shame and stress: an experimental study	7
Exploring the impact of safety behaviour use on cognitive, psychophysiological, emotional and behavioural responses during a speech task	6
Self-concept, post-traumatic self-appraisals and post-traumatic psychological adjustment: what are the relationships?	6
‘I was treated like dirt’: evaluating links between betrayal and mental contamination in clinical samples	6
Tailoring cognitive behavioural therapy to subtypes of voice-hearing using a novel tabletised manual: a feasibility study	6
Vicarious trauma in therapists: a meta-ethnographic review	6
A pragmatic patient preference trial of cognitive behavioural versus cognitive analytic guided self-help for anxiety disorders	6
A service evaluation of a group mindfulness-based intervention for distressing voices: how do findings from a randomized controlled trial compare with routine clinical practice?	6
Cognitive appraisals of dissociation in psychosis: a new brief measure	5
Treatment of survivor guilt after trauma using imagery rescripting: a proof-of-concept study	5
Development and validation of the Readiness for Therapy Questionnaire (RTQ)	5
Examining depression symptoms within OCD: the role of experiential avoidance	5
Competence and Adherence Scale for Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CAS-CBT) for anxiety disorders in youth: reliability and factor structure	5
Understanding agoraphobic avoidance: the development of the Oxford Cognitions and Defences Questionnaire (O-CDQ)	5
Treatment of compulsive buying disorder: comparing the effectiveness of cognitive behavioural therapy with person-centred experiential counselling	5
Validation of the Guilt associated with Self-Perception as a Burden Scale (G-SPBS)	5
Work and Social Adjustment Scale (WSAS): psychometric characteristics of a Spanish adaptation in a clinical population	5
Targeting affect leads to reduced paranoia in people with psychosis: a single case series	5
The efficacy of therapist-supported acceptance and commitment therapy-based bibliotherapy for psychological distress after stroke: a single-case multiple-baseline study	5
Online Support and Intervention (OSI) for child anxiety: a case series within routine clinical practice	5
Anxiety sensitivity, disgust sensitivity and aversive reactions to four stimuli	5
Social anxiety disorder in children: investigating the relative contribution of automatic thoughts, repetitive negative thinking and metacognitions	5
Pilot of a novel theoretically derived intervention for cancer-related anxiety with patients with advanced or recurred disease	4
OCD, death anxiety, and attachment: what’s love got to do with it?	4
Anger and predictors of drop-out from PTSD treatment of veterans and first responders	4
Wisdom enhancement and life skills to augment CBT outcomes for depression in later life: a series of N-of-1 trials	4
A brief clinical report documenting a novel therapeutic technique (MEmory Specificity Training, MEST) for depression: a summary of two pilot randomized controlled trials	4
Low-intensity sleep intervention in a youth mental health service: a case series analysis	4
Imagine food, weight and shape: mental imagery in women with eating disorders compared with healthy controls	4
Mindful parenting intervention for parents of children with skin conditions: a single group experimental cases series	4
The roles of intolerance of uncertainty, anxiety sensitivity and distress tolerance in hoarding disorder compared with OCD and healthy controls	4
Personality disorder co-morbidity in primary care ‘Improving Access to Psychological Therapy’ (IAPT) services: a qualitative study exploring patient perspectives on treatment experience	4
A pilot study on the effectiveness of low-intensity cognitive behavioural therapy (LiCBT) for common mental disorders in Hong Kong	4
Temperament, parenting styles and the intensity of early maladaptive schemas: assessment of correlations in a non-clinical adult group	4
Emotional regulation for adolescents: a group-based treatment pilot study through the STEPPS programme	4
Living with loss: a cognitive approach to prolonged grief disorder – incorporating complicated, enduring and traumatic grief	4
A cognitive behavioural group therapy for bipolar disorder using daily mood monitoring	3
The treatment of PTSD in refugees and asylum seekers using imagery rescripting within an NHS setting	3
Mechanisms and moderators of behavioural couples therapy for alcohol and substance use disorders: an updated review of the literature	3
The development of a theoretically derived measure exploring extreme appraisals of sleep in bipolar disorder: a Delphi study with professionals	3
Investigating cultural differences in the effects of expressive suppression when processing traumatic distressing material	3
Are negative views of the self, world and future, mediators of the relationship between subjective social status and depressive symptoms?	3
Delivering cognitive therapy for adolescent social anxiety disorder in NHS CAMHS: a qualitative analysis of the experiences of young people, their parents and clinicians-in-training	3
Beliefs about voices in voice-hearers: the role of schema functioning	3
Investigating predictors of trauma induced data-driven processing and its impact on attention bias and free recall	3
School-based victimization in children and adolescents presenting for cognitive behavioural treatment of anxiety disorders	3

A transdiagnostic model of low self-esteem: pathway analysis in a heterogeneous clinical sample	3
Brief cognitive behavioural therapy for post-stroke ‘delusional infestation’ in a 71-year-old man: a single case experimental design	3
Why do patients with psychosis listen to and believe derogatory and threatening voices? 21 reasons given by patients	3
Low self-esteem: a refined cognitive behavioural model	3
Do you believe in magical thinking? Examining magical thinking as a mediator between obsessive-compulsive belief domains and symptoms	3
Pathways from insecure attachment to paranoia: the mediating role of emotion regulation	3
Negative symptoms: associations with defeatist beliefs, self-efficacy, and maladaptive schemas in youth and young adults at-risk for psychosis	3
An evaluation of a group-based cognitive behavioural therapy intervention for low self-esteem	3
Delivering cognitive therapy for adolescent social anxiety disorder in NHS CAMHS: a clinical and cost analysis	3
REBT with context of basic psychological needs: RESD-A Scale	3
Psychological flexibility as a potential change factor in cognitive behavioural therapy of OCD	3
Recovery priorities of people with psychosis in acute mental health in-patient settings: a Q-methodology study	3
Assessing functioning in adolescents with chronic fatigue syndrome: psychometric properties and factor structure of the School and Social Adjustment Scale and the Physical Functioning Subscale of the	3
The impact of including babies on the effectiveness of dialectical behaviour therapy skills groups in a community perinatal service	3
Systems training for emotional predictability and problem solving in older adults with personality disorders: a pilot study	2
The quality of research exploring in-session measures of CBT competence: a systematic review	2
Internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy for chronic fatigue among adolescents with a chronic medical condition: a single case study	2
Group cohesion in group-based personal practice	2
The evolution of motivational interviewing	2
A qualitative exploration of how people with bipolar disorder consider risk-taking in everyday decisions	2
ACT-i, an insomnia intervention for autistic adults: a pilot study	2
The Covert and Overt Reassurance Seeking Inventory (CORSI): Development, validation and psychometric analyses	2
Assessing panic disorder-specific competencies: evaluation of the Cognitive Therapy Competence Scale for panic disorder	2
Are four maladaptive schema domains a better option than five? Recommendations based on comparison of the latent structure of schemas on a large group of healthy adults	2
Psychometric properties of Persian version of Cognitive Behavioural Avoidance Scale: results from student, general population and clinical samples in Iran	2
Development and psychometric validation of the Dispositional Recovery and Dysfunction Inventory: a tool to assess for positive and negative cognitions following trauma exposure	2
Implementation and preliminary outcomes of cognitive enhancement therapy for serious mental illness in an outpatient mental health program	2
Pilot evaluation of a group stabilisation intervention for refugees and asylum seekers with PTSD	2
Overcoming challenges in delivering integrated motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioural therapy for bipolar disorder with co-morbid alcohol use: therapist perspectives	2
Group intervention for sexual minority adults with common mental health problems: preliminary evaluation	2
Three ways to change your mind: an epistemic framework for cognitive interventions	2
Interpersonal dysfunction in individuals high in chronic worry: relations with interpersonal problem-solving	2
Therapist written goodbye letters: evidence for therapeutic benefits in the treatment of anorexia nervosa	2
Successfully treating refugees’ post-traumatic stress symptoms in a Ugandan settlement with group cognitive behaviour therapy	2
Treating co-morbid insomnia and social anxiety disorder with sequential CBT protocols: a single-case experimental study	2
Metacognitions in heterosexual, bisexual, and homosexual men: with or without premature ejaculation and erectile dysfunction	2
Overcoming death anxiety: a phase I trial of an online CBT program in a clinical sample	2
The role of simulation in imagery rescripting for post-traumatic stress disorder: a single case series	2
Automated VR therapy for improving positive self-beliefs and psychological well-being in young patients with psychosis: a proof of concept evaluation of Phoenix VR self-confidence therapy	2
The acceptability and feasibility of group cognitive behavioural therapy for older adults with generalised anxiety disorder	2
Culturally adapted and lay-delivered cognitive behaviour therapy for older adults with depressive symptoms in rural China: a pilot trial	2
Cognitive behavioural group therapy for insomnia (CBGT-I) in patients undergoing haemodialysis: a randomized clinical trial	2
Parent-led cognitive behaviour therapy for child anxiety problems: overcoming challenges to increase access to effective treatment	2
Metacognitive beliefs in depressed in-patients: adaptation and validation of the short version of the Metacognitions Questionnaire (MCQ-30) for French clinical and non-clinical samples	2
Patient experiences with group behavioural activation in a partial hospital program	2
The map of cognitive processes in boredom: multiple mediation models	2
A self-report assessment of appearance-related safety behaviours: Development and psychometric properties	2
Effectiveness of the unified protocol for treating co-morbid health anxiety and depression: an empirical case study	1
Context matters: criticism and accommodation by close others associated with treatment attitudes in those with anxiety	1
Predictors of response to cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD): a systematic review	1
Psychological predictors of health anxiety and pain in ambulatory presentations in a hospital emergency department	1
Integrating motivational interviewing with cognitive behavioural therapy for anxiety disorders, depression and co-morbid unhealthy lifestyle behaviours: a randomised controlled pilot trial	1
South African youth’s understanding of feelings, thoughts and behaviours: Implications for the development of CBT-based mental health interventions	1
The acceptability of cognitive analytic guided self-help in an Improving Access to Psychological Therapies service	1
The impact of particular safety behaviours on perceived likeability and authenticity during interpersonal interactions in social anxiety disorder	1
What characterizes helpful personal practice in psychotherapy training? Results of an online survey	1
Are context-specific measures of positive emotion regulation more predictive of mania risk and mood symptoms than trait measures?	1
Internet-delivered cognitive behaviour therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder: a randomised controlled trial and outcomes in routine care	1
Post-Traumatic Cognitions Inventory (PTCI): psychometric properties in clients with serious mental illness and co-occurring PTSD	1
Guided parent-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy for Japanese children and parents: a single-arm uncontrolled study	1
Cognitive behavioural anger treatment for adults with intellectual disabilities: effects of therapist experience on outcome	1
What works in the Socratic debate? An analysis of verbal behaviour interaction during cognitive restructuring	1
An investigation of the competencies involved in the facilitation of CBT-based group psychoeducational interventions	1
A brief report informing the adaptation of a behavioural activation intervention for delivery by non-mental health specialists for the treatment of perinatal depression	1
The Short Version of the Metacognitive Anger Processing Scale (MAP-SV) – initial psychometric testing	1
Imagery re-scripting for PTSD: session content and its relation to symptom improvement	1
Assessment of the cognitive attentional syndrome in children: an adaptation of the CAS-1	1
Cognitive behavioural therapy and medication for treatment of adolescent depression: a network meta-analysis	1
The contribution of cognitive behavioural factors to social anxiety in Parkinson’s disease	1
Self-image and self-focused attention in a social interaction situation: what is relevant for social anxiety?	1
Intrusive imagery in anxiety disorders in adolescents	1
An investigation into the factor structure of the Cognitive Therapy Scale – Revised (CTS-R) in a CBT training sample	1
Schema therapy with cognitive behaviour day-treatment in patients with treatment-resistant anxiety disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder: an uncontrolled pilot study	1