Behaviour Research and Therapy

Papers
(The TQCC of Behaviour Research and Therapy is 9. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Direct mapping of intervention to thought features: A Bayesian proof-of-concept study177
Problem mastery and motivational clarification as mechanisms of change in cognitive-behavioral therapy for depression: Secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial152
Optimizing in vivo exposure using occasional reinforced extinction with aversive imagery in spider fearful individuals131
Intolerance of uncertainty and information-seeking behavior: Experimental manipulation of threat relevance110
Cognitive behavioral therapy versus compassion focused therapy for adult patients with eating disorders with and without childhood trauma: A randomized controlled trial in an intensive treatment setti102
Social anxiety inhibits needs repair following exclusion in both relational and non-relational reward contexts: The mediating role of positive affect92
Reacting to changing environment: Updating patterns in social anxiety74
Cognitive behavioural therapy for functional abdominal pain disorders in children and adolescents: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials70
Sudden gains in face-to-face and internet-based cognitive therapy for social anxiety disorder67
Unsupervised clustering of autonomic temporal networks in clinically distressed and psychologically healthy individuals56
A randomized controlled trial modifying insomnia-consistent interpretation bias in students54
From basic science to clinical practice: Can cognitive behavioural therapy tasks be augmented with enhanced episodic specificity?54
Exploring the effect of loneliness on fear: Implications for the effect of COVID-19-induced social disconnection on anxiety53
The role of expectancies and selective interrogation of information in trait anxiety-linked affect when approaching potentially stressful future events53
Predicting positive outcomes and successful completion in an online parenting program for parents of children with disruptive behavior: An integrated data analysis52
Evaluation of a Brief, Online Imagery Rescripting Intervention Targeting Fear-of-Self in High Obsessive-Compulsive Participants46
Bilateral eye movements disrupt the involuntary perceptual representation of trauma-related memories44
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Sex differences in the effect of subjective sleep on fear conditioning, extinction learning, and extinction recall in individuals with a range of PTSD symptom severity44
The role of emotion dysregulation and interpersonal dysfunction in nonsuicidal self-injury during dialectical behavior therapy for borderline personality disorder41
Family accommodation in pediatric anxiety: Relations with avoidance and self-efficacy38
Online cognitive bias modification for interpretation to reduce anxious thinking during the COVID-19 pandemic36
The relation between children's attention bias to pain and children's pain-related memory biases is moderated by parental narrative style36
Testing associations between negative interpretation inflexibility, anxiety symptoms and intolerance of uncertainty36
Network Intervention Analyses of cognitive therapy and behavior therapy for insomnia: Symptom specific effects and process measures36
Less is more: Decreasing the frequency of maladaptive coping predicts improvements in DBT more consistently than increasing the frequency of adaptive coping35
Interoception in functional motor symptoms and functional seizures: Preliminary evidence of intact accuracy alongside reduced insight and altered sensibility35
Interoceptive anxiety-related processes: Importance for understanding COVID-19 and future pandemic mental health and addictive behaviors and their comorbidity33
Towards personalizing cognitive remediation therapy: Examining moderators of response for euthymic people with bipolar disorder33
Cognitive flexibility improves in cognitive behavioral therapy for irritable bowel syndrome but not nonspecific education/support33
Psychological mechanisms of change in reducing co-occurring social anxiety and alcohol use: A causal mediation analysis of the online Inroads intervention31
The relative efficacy and efficiency of single- and multi-session exposure therapies for specific phobia: A meta-analysis30
Heart-Mind-Behavior Parent Training: Randomized controlled trial for Chinese parents of young children with ASD30
Induced awareness of stimulus differences impedes the generalization of extinction learning with various, highly similar stimuli30
Corrigendum to “Intolerance of uncertainty enhances adolescent fear generalization in both perceptual-based and category-based tasks: fNIRS studies” [Behaviour Research and Therapy 183 (2024) 104650]29
Downstream effects of observational threat learning: Generalization and reversal learning across development29
Effects of social buffering on fear extinction in adolescent rats29
The causes and consequences of shame in obsessive-compulsive disorder29
Repetitive negative thinking in daily life predicts psychopathology: Further validation of an ecological momentary assessment paradigm28
Cognitive behavior therapy for adult post-traumatic stress disorder in routine clinical care: A systematic review and meta-analysis27
Systematically investigating the role of context on effect replicability in reinstatement of fear in humans27
A multilevel machine learning algorithm to predict session-by-session outcome for patients receiving cognitive-behavioural therapy27
Fear reacquisition and symptoms of combat-related PTSD: Specificity and preliminary examination of the influence of the 5-HT3A receptor gene27
Is internet-based parent training for everyone? Predictors and moderators of outcomes in group vs. internet-based parent training for children with disruptive behavior problems26
Remote mental health care interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic: An umbrella review26
No-think, No drink? Assessing the ability of reconsolidation interference by intentional forgetting to suppress alcohol memories in hazardous drinkers26
Repetitive negative thinking and suicidal ideation in internalizing psychopathologies: A replication study26
When emotions persist: Emotional inertia predicts adolescent depression amid COVID-19 stress26
Divergent experiences of U.S. veterans who did and did not complete trauma-focused therapies for PTSD: A national qualitative study of treatment dropout25
Decentering predicts attenuated perseverative thought and internalizing symptoms following stress exposure: A multi-level, multi-wave study25
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Performance-based attentional control, but not self-reported attentional control, predicts changes in depressive symptoms in short-term psychotherapy24
Imagery rescripting and extinction: Effects on US expectancy, US revaluation, and the generalization of fear reduction24
Mechanisms of change in digital cognitive behavioral therapy for depression in patients with chronic back pain: A mediation analysis of a multicenter randomized clinical trial23
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Repetitive negative thinking and depressive symptoms are differentially related to response inhibition: The influence of non-emotional, socio-emotional, and self-referential stimuli23
Advances in the adaptation and implementation of evidence-based interventions for historically marginalized groups23
Can placebos reduce intrusive memories?22
The effect of concreteness training on peri-traumatic processing and intrusive memories following an analogue trauma22
Role of social determinants in anxiety and depression symptoms during COVID-19: A longitudinal study of adults in North Carolina and Massachusetts21
Threat sensitivity in emotion dynamics: Negativity effects and sex differences21
Guided internet-based LGBTQ-affirmative cognitive-behavioral therapy: A randomized controlled trial among sexual minority men in China21
Predicting responsiveness to a dialectical behaviour therapy skills training app for recurrent binge eating: A machine learning approach21
Visual attention during cognitive reappraisal in adolescent major depression: Evidence from two eye-tracking studies21
Daily micropractice can augment single-session interventions: A randomized controlled trial of self-compassionate touch and examining their associations with habit formation in US college students20
Responsibility, probability, and severity of harm: An experimental investigation of cognitive factors associated with checking-related OCD20
Can integrating the Memory Support Intervention into cognitive therapy improve depression outcome? A randomized controlled trial20
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Mediators and Moderators of two online interventions for managing pain, fear of progression and functional ability in rheumatoid arthritis19
Using network analysis to characterize clinical improvement during cognitive processing therapy18
The effects of culturally adapted expressive writing interventions on depressive and anxiety symptoms among Chinese American breast cancer survivors: A randomized controlled trial18
A threat from within: Learning to fear by observing aversive bodily symptoms in others18
Translational assessment of anhedonia components: Significant associations between reward anticipation measured via behavioural task performance, daily smartphone reports, and general anhedonia questi18
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Real-world evidence from users of a behavioral digital therapeutic for chronic insomnia18
“I'm not here to push you:” raising adolescents' treatment engagement via autonomy support18
The attenuation of spider avoidance action tendencies in spider-fearful individuals and its impact on explicit evaluation of spider stimuli16
The effect of exercise engagement on low back disability at 12-months is mediated by pain and catastrophizing in a community sample of people with chronic low back pain16
Daily relationships among maternal rumination, mood and bonding with infant16
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Feeling safe: Judgements of safety and anxiety as a function of worry and intolerance of uncertainty16
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The integrated constructionist approach to emotions: A theoretical model for explaining alterations to positive emotional experiences in the aftermath of trauma15
To focus on a confederate or oneself? Attentional bias and state anxiety in socially anxious individuals during real-time online video calls15
Recalling and anticipating positive events to improve the positive affect and mental health of adolescents: A cluster randomized controlled trial in secondary schools14
Do appearance related safety behaviors contribute to distress intolerance? A Multi-method examination14
A randomized-controlled trial comparing relative effects of mindfulness-based interoceptive exposure focus versus distraction on cold-pressor induced pain14
Mechanistic pathways of change in twice weekly versus once weekly sessions of psychotherapy for depression14
Corrigendum to “Multi-session online interpretation bias training for anxiety in a community sample” [Behaviour Research and Therapy, 142 (2021), 1–15 / 103864]14
Anxiety disorders in children and adolescents: A summary and overview of the literature14
The impact of module dosage on treatment response in a modular transdiagnostic intervention for sleep and circadian dysfunction (TranS-C)14
Prosody-focused feedback enhances the efficacy of anti-depressive self-statements in depressed individuals – A randomized controlled trial14
Improving treatments for mental disorders using computational models14
Safety behaviors toward innocuous stimuli can maintain or increase threat beliefs14
Moderators of treatment effect of Prompt Mental Health Care compared to treatment as usual: Results from a randomized controlled trial13
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Are biased and inflexible updating of interpretations broad or narrow transdiagnostic risk markers for psychopathology? A Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) lens13
Examining emotional processing theory and predictors of outcome in prolonged exposure for PTSD13
Identifying the active ingredients of cognitive-behavioural therapy: Conceptualisation, methods and evidence13
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Network intervention analysis of anxiety-related outcomes and processes of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for anxious cancer survivors13
Suicide and cognitive processes: Introduction to the special issue13
Empirically supported treatments for all: Realizing equitable coverage of care for trauma survivors globally13
Changes in cognitive processes and coping strategies precede changes in symptoms during cognitive therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder13
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Affective and computational determinants of threat extinction biases13
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The effect of depression and anxiety symptom severity on clinical outcomes and app use in digital mental health treatments: Meta-regression of three trials12
Concurrent and prospective associations between negative social-evaluative beliefs, safety behaviours, and symptoms during and following cognitive behavioural group therapy for social anxiety disorder12
Effectiveness of two video-based multicomponent treatments for fibromyalgia: The added value of cognitive restructuring and mindfulness in a three-arm randomised controlled trial12
Attentional bias modification in male college smokers: The changes of facilitated attention, difficulty in disengagement and the transfer effects of training12
Directional associations among real-time activity, sleep, mood, and daytime symptoms in major depressive disorder using actigraphy and ecological momentary assessment12
Suicide-specific rumination as a predictor of suicide planning and intent12
Temporal and specific pathways of change in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) for depression12
Prospective relations between anxiety sensitivity and transdiagnostic anxiety following cognitive-behavioral therapy: Evidence from the Coordinated Anxiety Learning management trial12
An online, single-session intervention for adolescent self-injurious thoughts and behaviors: Results from a randomized trial12
Predictors of school-based cognitive behavior therapy outcome for youth with anxiety12
Remembering and forgetting: A dynamic social retrieval theory of posttraumatic stress12
Depression and approach-avoidance decisions to emotional displays: The role of anhedonia12
Neurocognitive mechanisms of mental imagery-based disgust learning12
Is informal practice associated with outcomes in loving-kindness and compassion training? Evidence from pre-post and daily diary assessments11
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Persistence of extensively trained avoidance is not elevated in anxiety disorders in an outcome devaluation paradigm11
No joy - why bother? Higher anhedonia relates to reduced pleasure from and motivation for threat avoidance11
Introduction to special issue honoring Dianne L. Chambless (1948–2023)11
Reflections on an emerging new science of mental disorders11
Facets of social problem-solving as moderators of the real-time relation between social rejection and negative affect in an at-risk sample11
The benefit and neural mechanisms of computerized inhibitory control training for insomnia with short sleep duration phenotype: a rs-fMRI study11
Continuous theta burst stimulation to dorsomedial prefrontal cortex in young adults with depression: Changes in resting frontostriatal functional connectivity relevant to positive mood11
Parenting Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: An RCT of an online course with families of children with CP11
What we got wrong about depression and its treatment10
Self-guided online treatment of disturbed grief, posttraumatic stress, and depression in adults bereaved during the COVID-19 pandemic: A randomized controlled trial10
The role of mental imagery in worry: Insights from aphantasia10
“It's safer to believe that others don't like me” – A qualitative study on the paradoxical value of negative core beliefs in depression10
Optimising exposure for adolescents with public speaking anxiety: Affect labelling or positive coping statements?10
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The combination of physical exercise and slow-paced breathing on psychophysiological indices of emotion reactivity, psychosocial stress reactivity and recovery: A multimodal investigation10
Effects of positive and negative affect inductions on interpretive and response bias10
Fostering socio-emotional competencies in children on the autism spectrum using a parent-assisted serious game: A multicenter randomized controlled trial10
Youth social functioning interacts with treatment arm, diagnosis, and gender to predict anxiety treatment outcome9
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Patterns of self-harm functions among clinic-referred youth: Associations with treatment outcomes9
Eye-tracking to assess anxiety-related attentional biases among a large sample of preadolescent children9
A randomized controlled trial of brief behavioral activation plus savoring for positive affect dysregulation in university students9
Neurocognitive functioning in adults with trichotillomania: Predictors of treatment response and symptom severity in a randomized control trial9
Transdiagnostic and transtherapeutic strategies for optimising autobiographical memory9
Global precedence effect in fear generalization and the role of trait anxiety and intolerance of uncertainty9
Do trauma cue exposure and/or PTSD symptom severity intensify selective approach bias toward cannabis cues in regular cannabis users with trauma histories?9
Using GIMME to model the emotional context of suicidal ideation based on clinical data: From research to clinical practice9
Corrigendum to “Measuring self-efficacy, executive function, and temporal discounting in Kenya” [Behaviour Research and Therapy 101 (2018) 30–45]9
Itsy bitsy spider: Fear and avoidance (generalization) in a free-exploratory virtual reality paradigm9
I've got a friend in me: The effect of self-compassion on affect via emotion regulation in adolescents using ecological momentary assessment9
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Changes in trauma-related cognitions predict subsequent symptom improvement during prolonged exposure in patients with childhood abuse-related PTSD9
Stigmatized experience is associated with exacerbated pain perception in depressed patients9
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