OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy is 3. 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
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	26
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	21
The barriers, benefits and training needs of clinicians delivering psychological therapy via video	20
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
Contribution of executive functions to eating behaviours in obesity and eating disorders	15
A meta-synthesis of qualitative studies of the link between anxiety, depression and perfectionism: implications for treatment	15
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	13
A pilot study of dialectical behaviour therapy skills training for autistic adults	13
Cognitive analysis of specific threat beliefs and safety-seeking behaviours in generalised anxiety disorder: revisiting the cognitive theory of anxiety disorders	12
Engagement with smartphone-delivered behavioural activation interventions: a study of the MoodMission smartphone application	12
iMAgery focused psychological therapy for persecutory delusions in PSychosis (iMAPS): a multiple baseline experimental case series	12
Impact of attachment imagery on paranoia and mood: evidence from two single case studies	11
Frequency and level of self-efficacy predict the effectiveness of therapist- and self-guided exposure in obsessive compulsive disorder	11
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	10
COVID-19 related differences in the uptake and effects of internet-based cognitive behavioural therapy for symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder	10
A compassionate imagery intervention for patients with persecutory delusions	10
Using 360-degree videos for virtual reality exposure in CBT for panic disorder with agoraphobia: a feasibility study	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
The effects of self-critical rumination on shame and stress: an experimental study	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
Imagery rescripting and negative self-imagery in social anxiety disorder: a systematic literature review	7
Development and validation of the Readiness for Therapy Questionnaire (RTQ)	7
Vicarious trauma in therapists: a meta-ethnographic review	7
Treatment of survivor guilt after trauma using imagery rescripting: a proof-of-concept study	6
Exploring the impact of safety behaviour use on cognitive, psychophysiological, emotional and behavioural responses during a speech task	6
Mindful parenting intervention for parents of children with skin conditions: a single group experimental cases series	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
Self-concept, post-traumatic self-appraisals and post-traumatic psychological adjustment: what are the relationships?	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
Anxiety sensitivity, disgust sensitivity and aversive reactions to four stimuli	6
Social anxiety disorder in children: investigating the relative contribution of automatic thoughts, repetitive negative thinking and metacognitions	5
Targeting affect leads to reduced paranoia in people with psychosis: a single case series	5
Cognitive appraisals of dissociation in psychosis: a new brief measure	5
Online Support and Intervention (OSI) for child anxiety: a case series within routine clinical practice	5
Work and Social Adjustment Scale (WSAS): psychometric characteristics of a Spanish adaptation in a clinical population	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
Competence and Adherence Scale for Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CAS-CBT) for anxiety disorders in youth: reliability and factor structure	5
The efficacy of therapist-supported acceptance and commitment therapy-based bibliotherapy for psychological distress after stroke: a single-case multiple-baseline study	5
Temperament, parenting styles and the intensity of early maladaptive schemas: assessment of correlations in a non-clinical adult group	5
Examining depression symptoms within OCD: the role of experiential avoidance	5
A pilot study on the effectiveness of low-intensity cognitive behavioural therapy (LiCBT) for common mental disorders in Hong Kong	4
Wisdom enhancement and life skills to augment CBT outcomes for depression in later life: a series of N-of-1 trials	4
Living with loss: a cognitive approach to prolonged grief disorder – incorporating complicated, enduring and traumatic grief	4
Low self-esteem: a refined cognitive behavioural model	4
Low-intensity sleep intervention in a youth mental health service: a case series analysis	4
OCD, death anxiety, and attachment: what’s love got to do with it?	4
The roles of intolerance of uncertainty, anxiety sensitivity and distress tolerance in hoarding disorder compared with OCD and healthy controls	4
Psychological flexibility as a potential change factor in cognitive behavioural therapy of OCD	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
Imagine food, weight and shape: mental imagery in women with eating disorders compared with healthy controls	4
Anger and predictors of drop-out from PTSD treatment of veterans and first responders	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
Emotional regulation for adolescents: a group-based treatment pilot study through the STEPPS programme	4
Pilot of a novel theoretically derived intervention for cancer-related anxiety with patients with advanced or recurred disease	4
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
Recovery priorities of people with psychosis in acute mental health in-patient settings: a Q-methodology study	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
A cognitive behavioural group therapy for bipolar disorder using daily mood monitoring	3
The impact of including babies on the effectiveness of dialectical behaviour therapy skills groups in a community perinatal service	3
The treatment of PTSD in refugees and asylum seekers using imagery rescripting within an NHS setting	3
Internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy for chronic fatigue among adolescents with a chronic medical condition: a single case study	3
Mechanisms and moderators of behavioural couples therapy for alcohol and substance use disorders: an updated review of the literature	3
Why do patients with psychosis listen to and believe derogatory and threatening voices? 21 reasons given by patients	3
A brief report informing the adaptation of a behavioural activation intervention for delivery by non-mental health specialists for the treatment of perinatal depression	3
Are negative views of the self, world and future, mediators of the relationship between subjective social status and depressive symptoms?	3

Overcoming death anxiety: a phase I trial of an online CBT program in a clinical sample	3
Pathways from insecure attachment to paranoia: the mediating role of emotion regulation	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
Cognitive behavioural group therapy for insomnia (CBGT-I) in patients undergoing haemodialysis: a randomized clinical trial	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
The map of cognitive processes in boredom: multiple mediation models	3
Metacognitions in heterosexual, bisexual, and homosexual men: with or without premature ejaculation and erectile dysfunction	3
Negative symptoms: associations with defeatist beliefs, self-efficacy, and maladaptive schemas in youth and young adults at-risk for psychosis	3
Beliefs about voices in voice-hearers: the role of schema functioning	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
Three ways to change your mind: an epistemic framework for cognitive interventions	3
REBT with context of basic psychological needs: RESD-A Scale	3
Investigating cultural differences in the effects of expressive suppression when processing traumatic distressing material	3