Psychotherapy Research

Papers
(The H4-Index of Psychotherapy Research is 14. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
How does hostile resistance interfere with the benefits of cognitive–behavioral therapy for panic disorder? The role of therapist adherence and working alliance79
“Picking up the pieces”: Patients’ retrospective reflections of rupture resolution episodes during treatment60
Client perspectives on psychotherapy failure38
A pilot and feasibility study of Sage: A couple therapy for borderline personality disorder25
Maladaptive defense mechanisms moderate treatment outcome in 6 months versus 12 months dialectical-behavior therapy for borderline personality disorder25
The Cooper-Norcross Inventory of Preferences: Measurement invariance across international datasets and languages24
Symptom reduction in DBT-informed partial hospital, intensive outpatient, and step-down programs: Mindfulness matters23
Therapist in-session feelings predict change in depressive symptoms in interpersonal and brief relational psychotherapy22
Self-efficacy, motivation, social support, and alliance as predictors of youth psychotherapy outcomes in usual care21
Smaller effects matter in the psychological therapies: 25 years on from Wampold et al. (1997)19
The association between therapist internal relational models, professional self-doubt, and coping strategies and the process and outcome of psychotherapy18
Agreement in patient-therapist alliance ratings and its relation to dropout and outcome in a large sample of cognitive behavioral therapy for panic disorder18
Therapists’ and patients’ experiences of using patients’ self-reported data in ongoing psychotherapy processes—A systematic review and meta-analysis of qualitative studies16
Development and validation of countertransference feeling and behavior awareness measures in an Italian and American clinician sample15
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 approach14
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 center14
Vindicating pollyanna? An experimental test of cognitive restructuring and positive thinking interventions14
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