OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Psychology and Psychotherapy-Theory Research and Practice is 2. 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
Review of the current empirical literature on using videoconferencing to deliver individual psychotherapies to adults with mental health problems	62
A systematic review of the use of acceptance and commitment therapy in supporting parents	45
The mediating role of fear of COVID‐19 in the relationship between intolerance of uncertainty and depression	42
Emotional exhaustion among the South Korean workforce before and after COVID‐19	35
COVID‐19 distress and worries: The role of attitudes, social support, and positive coping during social isolation	31
Factors contributing to the distress, concerns, and needs of UK Neuroscience health care workers during the COVID‐19 pandemic	28
Compassionate Mind Training: An 8‐week group for the general public	26
Psychological interventions for people with Parkinson’s disease in the early 2020s: Where do we stand?	22
Trauma and the content of hallucinations and post‐traumatic intrusions in first‐episode psychosis	21
Group teletherapy for first‐episode psychosis: Piloting its integration with coordinated specialty care during the COVID‐19 pandemic	20
Rejection sensitivity and adolescent non‐suicidal self‐injury: Mediation through depressive symptoms and moderation by fear of self‐compassion	19
The acceptability, effectiveness, and durability of cognitive analytic therapy: Systematic review and meta‐analysis	19
A treatment protocol to guide the delivery of dialogical engagement with auditory hallucinations: Experience from the Talking With Voices pilot trial	18
The interpersonal processes of non‐suicidal self‐injury: A systematic review and meta‐synthesis	18
Embodiment in online psychotherapy: A qualitative study	17
Self‐compassion and emotional regulation as predictors of social anxiety	17
Trauma‐focused imaginal exposure for auditory hallucinations: A case series	16
Fear of COVID‐19, stress and depression: A meta‐analytic test of the mediating role of anxiety	15
Factor structure, internal reliability, and construct validity of the Brief Resilience Scale (BRS): A study on persons with serious mental illness living in the community	15
A second independent audit of electroconvulsive therapy in England, 2019: Usage, demographics, consent, and adherence to guidelines and legislation	15
How psychosis interrupts the lives of women and men differently: a qualitative comparison	14
Physical activity in a pandemic: A new treatment target for psychological therapy	14
Systematic review and meta‐analysis of therapeutic alliance, engagement, and outcome in psychological therapies for psychosis	13
Reductions in experiential avoidance explain changes in anxiety, depression and well‐being after a mindfulness and self‐compassion (MSC) training	13
Building ‘a compassionate armour’: The journey to develop strength and self‐compassion in a group treatment for complex post‐traumatic stress disorder	13

The Compassionate Kitbag: A creative and integrative approach to compassion‐focused therapy	12
Understanding the illness representations of young people with anxiety and depression: A qualitative study	12
Young adults’ dynamic relationships with their families in early psychosis: Identifying relational strengths and supporting relational agency	12
Targeting dissociation using cognitive behavioural therapy in voice hearers with psychosis and a history of interpersonal trauma: A case series	12
Developing a competence framework for cognitive analytic therapy	11
Compassion‐focused therapies for self‐esteem: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	11
How does attachment imagery for paranoia work? Cognitive fusion and beliefs about self and others mediate the impact on paranoia and anxiety	11
Pilot service evaluation of a brief psychological therapy for self‐harm in an emergency department: Hospital Outpatient Psychotherapy Engagement Service	10
Empathy, compassion, and theory of mind in obsessive‐compulsive disorder	10
Understanding predictors of change in a day treatment setting for non‐suicidal self‐injury	9
How social rejection expectations and depressive symptoms bi‐directionally predict each other – A cross‐lagged panel analysis	9
Internet‐based psychological therapies: A qualitative study of National Health Service commissioners and managers views	9
The psychological journey of weight gain in psychosis	9
Service user and eating disorder therapist views on anorexia nervosa recovery criteria	9
Mistrust and negative self‐esteem: Two paths from attachment styles to paranoia	9
A qualitative study exploring adolescents’ experience of brief behavioural activation for depression and its impact on the symptom of anhedonia	9
Family involvement in psychotherapy for depression in children and adolescents: Systematic review and meta‐analysis	9
Early shaming experiences and psychological distress: The role of experiential avoidance and self‐compassion	9
Yoga complements cognitive behaviour therapy as an adjunct treatment for anxiety and depression: Qualitative findings from a mixed‐methods study	8
Changing to remote psychological therapy during COVID‐19: Psychological therapists' experience of the working alliance, therapeutic boundaries and work involvement	8
Young people’s experience of online therapy for first‐episode psychosis: A qualitative study	8
Secondary attachment and mental health in Pakistani and Scottish adolescents: A moderated mediation model	7
The challenges and opportunities of social connection when hearing derogatory and threatening voices: A thematic analysis with patients experiencing psychosis	7
A systematic review of the relationship between momentary emotional states and nonsuicidal self‐injurious thoughts and behaviours	7
An evaluation of compassion‐focused therapy within adult mental health inpatient settings	7
Barriers to delivering trauma‐focused interventions for people with psychosis and post‐traumatic stress disorder: A qualitative study of health care professionals’ views	7
Exploring factors associated with personal recovery in bipolar disorder	7
Self‐compassion and complete perinatal mental health in women at high risk for postpartum depression: The mediating role of emotion regulation difficulties	7
Managing unusual sensory experiences: A feasibility trial in an At Risk Mental States for psychosis group	7
A qualitative examination of the relationship between rumination, distress, and dysregulated behaviours in vulnerable young people	6
Early Maladaptive Schemas and Schema Modes in clinical disorders: A systematic review	6
Skills‐homework completion and phone coaching as predictors of therapeutic change and outcomes in completers of a DBT intensive outpatient programme	6
A systematic review of the rates of depression in autistic children and adolescents without intellectual disability	6
Causal explanations of depression on perceptions of and likelihood to choose cognitive behavioural therapy and antidepressant medications as depression treatments	6
How young people experienced COVID‐19 disease containment measures in the Western Cape, South Africa: A qualitative study including the perspectives of young people, their parents, teachers and school	6
Patient experiences of therapy for borderline personality disorder: Commonalities and differences between dialectical behaviour therapy and mentalization‐based therapy and relation to outcomes	6
Impulsiveness and suicide in male offenders: Examining the buffer roles of regulatory emotional self‐efficacy and flourishing	6
Negative childhood events and the development of the anorexic voice: A grounded theory	5
Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) for high‐risk transgender and gender diverse (TGD) youth: A qualitative study of youth and mental health providers' perspectives on interventi	5
Are negative beliefs about psychosis associated with emotional distress in adults and young people with such experiences? A meta‐analysis	5
From brooding to detachment: Rumination longitudinally predicts an increase in depersonalization and derealisation	5
The relative benefits of nonattachment to self and self‐compassion for psychological distress and psychological well‐being for those with and without symptoms of depression	5
A cognitive behavioural intervention for low self‐esteem in young people who have experienced stigma, prejudice, or discrimination: An uncontrolled acceptability and feasibility study	5
When experiences of presence go awry: A survey on psychotherapy practice with the ambivalent‐to‐distressing ‘hallucination’ of the deceased	5
The Emotional Dysregulation Questionnaire: Development and comparative analysis	5
The experience of cognitive behavioural therapy in depressed adolescents who are fatigued	5
Self‐compassion and social anxiety: The mediating effect of emotion regulation strategies and the influence of depressed mood	5
A novel smartphone‐based intervention targeting sleep difficulties in individuals experiencing psychosis: A feasibility and acceptability evaluation	5
Depth of experiencing and therapeutic alliance: What predicts outcome for whom in emotion‐focused therapy for trauma?	5
‘It’s like having a core belief that’s able to speak back to you’: Therapist accounts of dialoguing with auditory hallucinations	5

The metacognitive model of rumination and depression in postpartum women	4
Do emotion regulation strategies mediate the attachment–paranoia association? An experimental study of repeated attachment imagery priming and stress buffering	4
Understanding the role of self in auditory verbal hallucinations using a self‐discrepancy paradigm	4
Using routine outcome measures as clinical process tools: Maximising the therapeutic yield in the IAPT programme when working remotely	4
An interpretative phenomenological analysis of service users’ experiences in a psychosocial addictions intervention	4
Shifting as a key executive function underlying cognitive restructuring for individuals with elevated social anxiety	4
Working together: An investigation of the impact of working alliance and cohesion on group psychotherapy attendance	4
An exploration of group cognitive analytic therapy for anxiety and depression	4
Emotion dysregulation and eating disorder outcome: Prediction, change and contribution of self‐image	4
How does attachment style affect psychosis? A systematic review of causal mechanisms and guide to future inquiry	4
On what do therapists agree? Assessing therapist evaluations of emotion regulation strategy effectiveness	4
Effects of rhythmic eye movements during a virtual reality exposure paradigm for spider‐phobic patients	4
‘Like jumping off a ledge into the water’: A qualitative study of trauma‐focussed imaginal exposure for hearing voices	3
The effectiveness of psychological interventions for anxiety in the perinatal period: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	3
Mindfulness for psychosis: Current evidence, unanswered questions and future directions	3
Mother and clinician experiences of a trial of a video feedback parent–infant intervention for mothers experiencing difficulties consistent with ‘personality disorder’: A qualitative interview study	3
Therapeutic alliance in a cognitive rehabilitation programme for people with serious mental illness: A qualitative analysis	3
Quality of life and psychiatric distress in people with serious mental illness, the role of personal recovery	3
ECTAS Response to ‘A second independent audit of electroconvulsive therapy in England, 2019: Usage, demographics, consent, and, adherence to guidelines and legislation’	3
Introducing mindfulness and compassion‐based interventions to improve verbal creativity in students of clinical and health psychology	3
Self‐forgiveness, self‐compassion and psychological health: A qualitative exploration of change during compassion focused therapy groups	3
The effectiveness of cognitive analytic therapy for borderline personality disorder: Utilizing a withdrawal experimental design to improve sensitivity to abandonment	3
Compassion‐based interventions in Asian communities: A meta‐analysis of randomised controlled trials	3
Do recovery‐oriented messages improve self‐efficacy and positive emotions amongst people with lived experience of psychosis? Experimental investigation	3
Engagement, clinical outcomes and therapeutic process in online mindfulness for psychosis groups delivered in routine care	3
“If there is a tension about something, I can solve it”: A qualitative investigation of change processes in a trial of brief problem‐solving interventions for common adolescent mental health problems	3
‘The last thing you feel is the self‐disgust’. The role of self‐directed disgust in men who have attempted suicide: A grounded theory study	3
The journey of adolescent paranoia: A qualitative study with patients attending child and adolescent mental health services	3
The phenomenology of auditory verbal hallucinations in bipolar disorder	2
Loneliness and social anxiety in young adults: The moderating and mediating roles of emotion dysregulation, depression and social isolation risk	2
The subjective effect of antipsychotic medication on trauma‐related thoughts, emotions, and physical symptoms: A qualitative study with people who have experienced childhood trauma and psychosis	2
“Cover up your arms, you’re triggering people”: A Mixed‐Methods Investigation of Shame in those who Self‐Injure	2
Are depressed patients’ coping strategies associated with psychotherapy treatment outcomes?	2
A family perspective on parental psychosis: An interpretative phenomenological analysis study	2
Defining compassion: A Delphi study of compassion therapists’ experiences when introducing patients to the term ‘compassion’	2
A systematic review of service user’s experience of cognitive analytic therapy (CAT)	2
The service user experience of SlowMo therapy: A co‐produced thematic analysis of service users’ subjective experience	2
Is there an association between caregiver antipathy and psychosis? A systematic review	2
A thematic analysis of barriers and facilitators to participant engagement in group exposure and response prevention therapy for obsessive–compulsive disorder	2
It's not just in my head: An intersectional, social and systems‐based framework in gender and sexuality diversity	2
Response to the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ critique of our audit of ECT usage	2
Treatment experiences during a cognitive behaviour therapy group intervention targeting repetitive negative thinking: A qualitative study	2
A life more ordinary: A peer research method qualitative study of the Feeling Safe Programme for persecutory delusions	2
“It felt very special, it felt customised to me”—A qualitative investigation of the experiences of participating in a clinical trial of CBT for young people at risk of bipolar disorder	2
Attachment as a framework to facilitate empowerment for people with severe mental illness	2
Effectiveness of cognitive behavioural‐based interventions for adults with attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder extends beyond core symptoms: A meta‐analysis of randomized controlled trials	2
Cognitive behavioural therapy for psychosis: The end of the line or time for a new approach?	2
Self‐ but not other‐mentalizing moderates the association between BPD symptoms and somatic complaints in community‐dwelling adolescents	2
An ongoing process of reconnection: A qualitative exploration of mindfulness‐based cognitive therapy for adults in remission from depression	2
Construing journeys to recovery from psychosis: A qualitative analysis of first‐person accounts	2
SlowMo therapy, a new digital blended therapy for fear of harm from others: An account of therapy personalisation within a targeted intervention	2
An independent audit of electroconvulsive therapy patient information leaflets in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales	2
Case formulation—A vehicle for change? Exploring the impact of cognitive behavioural therapy formulation in first episode psychosis: A reflexive thematic analysis	2
Supporting conscious competency: Validation of the Generic Supervision Assessment Tool (GSAT)	2
Establishing an optimal working relationship with patients with an antisocial personality disorder. Aspects and processes in the therapeutic alliance	2
“Figuring out how to be normal”: Exploring how young people and parents make sense of voice‐hearing in the family context	2
The problem with picking: Permittance, escape and shame in problematic skin picking	2
Acceptance and commitment therapy for psychosis: Current status, lingering questions and future directions	2
Pathways from trauma to unusual perceptual experiences: Modelling the roles of insecure attachment, negative affect, emotion regulation and dissociation	2
Position paper – CFT for psychosis	2