Psychotherapy Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Psychotherapy Research 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
How does hostile resistance interfere with the benefits of cognitive–behavioral therapy for panic disorder? The role of therapist adherence and working alliance89
“Picking up the pieces”: Patients’ retrospective reflections of rupture resolution episodes during treatment27
Client perspectives on psychotherapy failure26
Therapists’ and patients’ experiences of using patients’ self-reported data in ongoing psychotherapy processes—A systematic review and meta-analysis of qualitative studies25
Smaller effects matter in the psychological therapies: 25 years on from Wampold et al. (1997)23
A pilot and feasibility study of Sage: A couple therapy for borderline personality disorder23
The Cooper-Norcross Inventory of Preferences: Measurement invariance across international datasets and languages22
Symptom reduction in DBT-informed partial hospital, intensive outpatient, and step-down programs: Mindfulness matters20
Therapist in-session feelings predict change in depressive symptoms in interpersonal and brief relational psychotherapy18
Self-efficacy, motivation, social support, and alliance as predictors of youth psychotherapy outcomes in usual care16
The association between therapist internal relational models, professional self-doubt, and coping strategies and the process and outcome of psychotherapy16
Maladaptive defense mechanisms moderate treatment outcome in 6 months versus 12 months dialectical-behavior therapy for borderline personality disorder15
Agreement in patient-therapist alliance ratings and its relation to dropout and outcome in a large sample of cognitive behavioral therapy for panic disorder15
Development and validation of countertransference feeling and behavior awareness measures in an Italian and American clinician sample15
Vindicating pollyanna? An experimental test of cognitive restructuring and positive thinking interventions14
“It Felt Like I Was Being Tailored to the Treatment Rather Than the Treatment Being Tailored to Me”: Patient Experiences of Helpful and Unhelpful Psychotherapy14
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
Patient motivation in group metacognitive therapy for generalized anxiety disorder13
Predictors of homework engagement in group CBT for social anxiety: client beliefs about homework, its consequences, group cohesion, and working alliance13
Using clinician and patient input to assess utility, accuracy, efficiency, and therapeutic implementation of a new data-driven digital therapeutic for personalized clinical eating disorder treatment: 13
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 center13
The therapeutic effects of the therapists’ ability to pass their patients’ tests in psychotherapy13
Group schema therapy for personality disorders: Systematic review, research agenda and treatment implications13
Effectiveness of an online dialectical behavior therapy skills training in adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A randomized controlled trial13
Patient perspectives on working with preferences in psychotherapy: A consensual qualitative research study13
Statement of Retraction: Examining therapy dynamics and session outcome using differential equations model and multilevel data disaggregation12
Therapeutic techniques and session impact: A practice-research network study in private practice12
First impressions matter: The influence of initial assessments on psychological treatment initiation and subsequent dropout12
Direct retrospective measurement of therapeutic changes: an example using the Czech version of the Questionnaire of Personal Changes (Q-PC)12
The competence development of German psychotherapy trainees: A naturalistic, longitudinal and multidimensional outcome study11
Enhancing emotion regulation11
Development of the Cultural Humility Scale—Short Form (CHS-SF)11
Individual treatment selection for patients with post-traumatic stress disorder: External validation of a personalised advantage index11
Therapist verification of patient self-concepts as a responsive precondition for early alliance development and subsequent introject change11
Feasibility of generic, short, and easy-to-use assessment of psychological distress during psychotherapy: Longitudinal measurement invariance of CORE-10 and -OM11
Physiological synchronization and innovative moments in psychotherapy: A single-case study of micro-process10
Examining therapist estimation of client working alliance and client symptom outcome using truth and bias model and response surface analysis10
Exploring Therapist Self-Efficacy Change Profiles Using Latent Growth Curve Analysis10
Effectiveness of emotion-focused therapy: Main results of a practice–research network study10
The effects of emotion-focused skills training on parental mental health, emotion regulation and self-efficacy: Mediating processes between parents and children10
Transgender and gender diverse adults’ self-reported mental health diagnoses, engagement in mental health services, and perceptions of therapists10
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Correction10
Investigating predictors of treatment response in Dialectical Behavior Therapy for borderline personality disorder using LASSO regression9
Relationship between outcomes and processes in patients with chronic low back pain plus depressive symptoms: idiographic analyses within a randomized controlled trial9
Between- and within-person effects of affective experiences on coping in CBT: Direct effects and interplay with therapeutic alliance and resource activation9
Interpersonal factors in internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy for depression: Attachment style and alliance with the program and with the therapist9
Within- and between-session changes of in-session reflective functioning of mothers in dyadic parent–infant psychotherapy9
Two kinds of sudden gains in brief psychotherapy9
Alliance ruptures and resolutions in short-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy for adolescent depression: An empirical case study9
Statement of Retraction: Therapist Immediacy: The association with Working Alliance, Real Relationship, Session Quality and Time in Psychotherapy9
The influence of deliberate practice on skill performance in therapeutic practice: A systematic review of early studies9
Testing of the therapist to reduce maladaptive interactional patterns: Categorizing patients’ tests9
Learning from mothers who received focused parent–infant psychotherapy for the treatment of their child’s regulatory disorders9
Group schema therapy: The temporal relationship between early maladaptive schemas and global psychological distress8
Reactivity and stability in facial expressions as an indicator of therapeutic alliance strength8
Towards a taxonomy of mechanisms of change? Findings from an expert survey on the association between common factors and specific techniques in psychotherapy8
From seeing difficult behaviour to recognizing legitimate needs – A qualitative study of mothers' experiences of participating in a Circle of Security Parenting program in a public mental health setti8
Emotional processing during the therapy for complicated grief8
A multi-modality and multi-dyad approach to measuring flexibility in psychotherapy8
The use of mentalization-based techniques in online psychodynamic child psychotherapy8
Commentary on Loades et al. (2022): The landscape of adolescent depression8
Renegotiating tasks or goals as rupture repair: A task analysis in a cognitive–behavioral therapy for personality disorder8
The implications of the Dodo bird verdict for training in psychotherapy: prioritizing process observation8
Community belongingness during COVID-19 predicts anxiety and depression treatment change in college students8
Socioeconomic status, psychotherapy duration, and return to work from disability due to common mental disorders8
Project ASPIRE: A feasibility randomized controlled trial of a brief intervention for reducing risk of depression and alcohol-related harms among South African adolescents7
Targeted Learning for Optimal Patient Assignment to Psychotherapy7
Therapists’ responsiveness in the process of ruptures and resolution: Are patients and therapists on the same page?7
An interdisciplinary multimodal integrative healthcare program for somatic symptom disorder, with predominant (spinal) pain7
Negative effects during multicomponent group-based treatment: A multisite study7
Harnessing implementation science to integrate ambulatory assessment data into clinical practice7
Group member attachment style interacts with actor and partner helping alliance to predict decreasing binge eating episodes7
Emotional arousal and reflective functioning among parents participating in attachment-based family therapy for LGBTQ+ young adults and their nonaccepting parents7
Moments of change: Clients’ immediate experiences when sharing emotions in psychotherapy7
Client-Identified Impacts of Helpful and Hindering Events in Psychotherapy: A Qualitative Meta-analysis7
Therapist-guided internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy versus face-to-face CBT for depression/anxiety symptoms in infertile women with adjustment disorders: A randomized controlled trial7
Treatment outcomes and patient satisfaction of a virtual partial hospital program: A mixed-method study7
Clinical factors and early life experiences associated with therapeutic alliance development in treatment for depression or binge eating6
Bridging the feedback implementation gap: A comparison of empirical and rational decision rules in naturalistic psychotherapy6
Effectiveness of emotion-focused skills training (EFST) for parents: A randomized controlled trial investigating remission of mental health diagnosis and symptom reduction in children6
Correction6
Evidence of Measurement Invariance in the Working Alliance Inventory Across In-Person and Videoconferencing Psychotherapy6
Unraveling the optimal balance of problem-related affective experiences and need satisfaction in cognitive-behavioral therapy: A response surface analysis6
Self-invalidation in borderline personality disorder: A content analysis of patients’ verbalizations6
The therapeutic alliance and dropout in cognitive behavioral therapy of depression6
Quality of the therapeutic working alliance as a factor in intensive residential treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder6
The relationship between general psychopathology in young people with family functioning and engagement with psychotherapy6
Development and validation of a psychotherapy change motivation scale6
Symptom-specific improvement across therapies and their putative mediators: A mediation network intervention analysis6
Individual behavioral activation in the treatment of depression: A meta analysis5
The evaluation of religious and spirituality-based therapy compared to standard treatment in mental health care: A multi-level meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials5
Psychotherapy process research: Identifying productive in-session processes to enhance treatment outcomes and therapist responsiveness5
Participant factors as correlates of patients’ psychotherapy outcome expectation: A meta-analytic and box-count review5
Shedding light on the effects of supportive techniques on nonverbal synchrony and their moderators in psychotherapy for depression5
Therapist cultural humility in early psychotherapy: A catalyst for improved client functioning at treatment termination5
Clinician perceptions of nomothetic and individualized patient-reported outcome measures in measurement-based care5
Enhancing the effect of psychotherapy through systematic client feedback in outpatient mental healthcare: A cluster randomized trial.5
Exploring access and engagement with Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services, before, during, and after the COVID-19 lockdown: A service evaluation in the Northwest of England5
Emotion cascade: Harnessing emotional sequences to enhance chair work interventions and reduce self-criticism5
Relational depth from the perspective of the psychotherapy dyad: Psychometric properties of the Relational Depth Frequency Scale5
Race, racial matching, and cultural understanding as predictors of treatment engagement in youth mental health services5
Using the experience sampling method to support clinical practice: An illustration with problematic cannabis use5
Prediction of adolescent psychotherapy outcomes using youth- and caregiver-reported symptoms data5
Toward an experimental analysis of verbal shaping in psychotherapy5
Outcome expectations and working alliance may be more important for patients from rural areas during the transition to college life: An exploratory within-patient analysis5
Using classification trees to identify psychotherapy patients at risk for poor treatment adherence5
Strength-based methods – a narrative review and comparative multilevel meta-analysis of positive interventions in clinical settings5
Predicting dropout from psychological treatment using different machine learning algorithms, resampling methods, and sample sizes5
Exploring the factor structure of a Chinese version of the CORE-OM: insights from network approach and bifactor modeling5
Psychometric properties of the French Infant-Toddler Working Alliance Inventory Short version (IT-WAI-S)4
Therapeutic relationships in cognitive behavioral therapy: Agreement in alliance, client factors, therapist factors, and CBT specific processes4
A mixed-methods evaluation of long-term outcomes after trauma-focused cognitive behavioural therapy for children subjected to family violence4
Direction of dependence analysis for pre-post assessments using non-Gaussian methods: a tutorial4
Therapist competence, homework engagement, and client characteristics in CBT for youth depression: A study of mediation and moderation in a community-based trial4
Development of a new observer-rated measure to assess the real relationship in psychotherapy sessions4
The German version of the Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation—Outcome Measure (CORE-OM): Factorial validity, internal consistency, and gender differences in a large outpatient sample4
Mastery and motivational clarification as mediators of cognitive behavioral therapy versus exposure-based cognitive behavioral therapy for depression4
Telephone interpersonal counseling treatment for frequent attenders to primary care: Development and piloting4
Growth in challenging situations: A qualitative investigation of therapists’ experience of delivering emotion-focused therapy4
Improved dropout prediction in group cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) using classification trees4
Using machine learning methods to identify trajectories of change and predict responders and non-responders to short-term dynamic therapy4
Does attachment predict the outcome of cognitive processing therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder in adolescent patients with interpersonal traumatization?4
An examination of therapists’ professional characteristics as moderators of the effect of feedback on psychological treatment outcomes4
Therapist’s interventions immediately after exceeding the client’s therapeutic zone of proximal development: A comparative case study4
Young adult vulnerability and parental responsiveness in attachment-based family therapy for LGBTQ+ young adults and their nonaccepting parents4
Within-person changes in aversive reactivity predict session-to-session reductions in anxiety and depression in the unified protocol4
Ambivalence resolution in the Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders: An exploratory case study4
“Vulnerability can breed strength”: The role of borderline personality disorder severity in movement synchrony among patients with major depressive disorder4
Change in reflective functioning in interpersonal psychotherapy and cognitive behavioral therapy for major depressive disorder4
Therapist interpersonal responsiveness: Being interpersonally flexible in response to client collaboration4
Session Reactions Scale-3: Initial psychometric evidence4
Addressing interpersonal patterns in patients with personality disorders partially explains psychotherapy outcome via changes in interaction patterns: A mediation analysis4
Four perspectives on traumatized youths’ therapeutic alliance: Correspondence and outcome predictions3
A comparison of the effect of two types of brief psychodynamic group therapy on perfectionism-related attitudes, self-relatedness, and self-esteem3
The utility of completing adjuvant video lessons based on the unified protocol during psychotherapy: A retrospective study using a telehealth platform in routine clinical care3
Group climate temporally precedes member improvement in emotional cultivation groups for youth3
Development and content validity of EVAD: A novel tool for evaluating and classifying the severity of adverse events for psychotherapeutic clinical trials3
A randomized controlled trial of an adapted group cognitive-behavioral therapy for burned-out teachers3
Trauma-focused treatments for victims of interpersonal violence: A comparison of treatment interventions and outcomes3
Effects of preference alignment and client-rated attachment style on therapy: The moderating role of interpersonal synchrony3
Identifying the origins of countertransference using the Core Conflictual Relationship Theme method: A multiple case study approach3
Clients’ Perceptions of Changes in Their Therapists’ Positive Regard in Transitioning from In-Person Therapy to Teletherapy3
Flexibility between immersion and distancing: Relationship with depressive symptoms and therapeutic alliance3
Effects and experiences of idiographic patient-reported outcome measures for feedback in psychotherapy: A systematic review and secondary analysis of the empirical literature3
Client-therapist congruence in session-helpfulness ratings and its association with therapy outcomes3
Emotional and interpersonal states following dialectical behavioral therapy in adolescent borderline personality disorder: A proof-of-concept ecological momentary assessment outcome study3
Development and psychometric evaluation of a screening instrument for cognitive perceptual disruption (Copeds) in psychotherapy patients3
Therapists’ emotional responses and their relation to patients’ experience of attunement and responsiveness3
Sudden gains in PTSD symptoms and social functioning in cognitive processing therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder3
Is it me, is it you or is it both of US? Applying the social relations model to disentangle the components of the therapeutic bond3
Risk factors for initial appointment non-attendance at Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT) services: A retrospective analysis3
Student counsellor experiences of mindfulness-based intervention training: A systematic review of the qualitative literature3
Do routine outcome monitoring measures tell the same story? Evaluating outcome trajectories and clinical outcomes for the outcome rating scale and outcome questionnaire - 453
Practice-based insights from specialized clinicians into youth suicide risk assessment and psychotherapy: A qualitative study3
Mentalization-enhancing therapeutic interventions in the psychotherapy of anorexia nervosa: An analysis of use and influence on patients’ mentalizing capacity3
Client-Therapist Convergence on Sleep Difficulty and its Impact on Treatment Outcomes3
Rater effects in evaluating therapist competencies using structured case reports: A mixed-methods study3
How to interpret correlational process-outcome effect sizes in psychotherapy: a meta-analytic benchmark study3
Correction3
Efficacy of systemic therapy on adults with depressive disorders: A meta-analysis3
Predicting resistance management skill from psychotherapy experience, intellectual humility and emotion regulation3
The meaning and feeling of the time and space between psychotherapy sessions and everyday life: Client experiences of transitions3
Love yourself as a therapist, doubt yourself as an institution? Therapist and institution effects on outcome, treatment length, and dropout3
Meditation, mindfulness, and acceptance methods in psychotherapy: A systematic review3
Disclosure in psychotherapy versus in anonymous and non-anonymous online spaces3
Modelling trajectories of change in psychopathology and well-being during eating disorder outpatient treatment3
Evaluation of symptom network density as a predictor of treatment outcome of inpatient psychotherapy3
Statement of Retraction: To be or not to be immediate with clients: The use and perceived effects of immediacy in psychodynamic/interpersonal psychotherapy3
Understanding change – developing a typology of therapy outcomes from the experience of adolescents with depression3
Enhancing the effectiveness of CBT for patients with unipolar depression by integrating digital interventions into treatment: A pilot randomized controlled trial3
Predicting working alliance in psychotherapy: A multi-modal machine learning approach2
Inter-brain plasticity as a mechanism of change in psychotherapy: A proof of concept focusing on test anxiety2
The effect of Oxytocin administration on patient-therapist alliance congruence: Results from a randomized controlled trial2
Development of a psychotherapy process prototype for the Real Relationship2
Maintaining relevance in psychodynamic psychotherapy: A novel approach to discerning between effective vs. ineffective discourse correlated with better session outcomes2
Comorbidity as a moderator of the differential efficacy of transdiagnostic behavior therapy and behavioral activation for affective disorders2
Do specific modules of cognitive behavioral therapy for depression have measurable effects on youth internalizing symptoms? An idiographic analysis2
Mechanisms of change in multicomponent group-based treatment for patients suffering from medically unexplained physical symptoms2
Trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy for long-term posttraumatic stress disorder, major depressive disorder and anxiety disorders in victims of terrorism: A randomized clinical trial2
Patient and therapist change process expectations: Independent and dyadic associations with psychotherapy outcomes2
Adverse events in psychotherapy randomized controlled trials: A systematic review2
Sharing, carrying, and tolerating the pain – A meta-synthesis of clinicians’ experiences from working with adolescents who self-harm2
Dropout in a clinical trial for comorbid PTSD and MDD among US service members: Are pretreatment characteristics predictive?2
Process-Based psychotherapy personalization: considering causality with continuous-time dynamic modeling2
The therapy relationship, digital interventions, and their interaction2
Affect integration, metacognitions, and early maladaptive schemas as predictors of outcome in cognitive and metacognitive therapies for social anxiety disorder2
Secret-keeping in therapy by clients who are sexually attracted to children2
Session-to-session effects of therapist adherence and facilitative conditions on symptom change in CBT and IPT for depression2
Seeing the past in a new light: change in reports of childhood abuse and neglect before and after inpatient psychotherapy and its relevance for change in depression symptoms2
Emotion-focused group therapy among women with premenstrual dysphoric disorder: A randomized clinical trial2
Does emotional processing predict 18-month post-therapy outcomes in the experiential treatment of major depression?2
Evaluation of male-specific psychoeducation for major depressive disorder compared to cognitive behavioral therapy psychoeducation: A randomized controlled investigation in mentally distressed men2
Child-therapist and parent-therapist alliances and outcome in the treatment of children with oppositional defiant/conduct disorder2
Drawing causal inferences from randomized controlled trials in psychotherapy research2
The Dodo Bird and the need for scalable interventions in global mental health—A commentary on the 25th anniversary of Wampold et al. (1997)2
Association between nonverbal synchrony, alliance, and outcome in psychotherapy: Systematic review and meta-analysis2
Routine Outcome Monitoring (ROM) and Feedback: Research Review and Recommendations2
A cohort study of engagement in telehealth psychotherapy versus in-person services2
Reconstructing dropout: Building from multiple definitions, therapist effects, and center effects2
Depression symptom clusters in adolescents: A latent class analysis in a clinical sample2
Therapists’ perceptions of interpersonally challenging patients in generalized anxiety disorder2
How to become a responsive therapist: A study of experiences of developing therapists2
Effectiveness of solution-focused brief therapy: An umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses2
Lessons from ten years of psychotherapy process research2
Symptom change trajectories in patients with persistent somatic symptoms and their association to long-term treatment outcome2
Mental health clients’ receptiveness to and recommendations for integrating physical activity discussions into therapy: A mixed methods study2
First impressions count: Therapists’ impression on patients’ motivation and helping alliance predicts psychotherapy dropout2
“I didn’t have to look her in the eyes”—participants’ experiences of the therapeutic relationship in internet-based psychodynamic therapy for adolescent depression2
Client resources and the prediction of therapeutic change using an interview: An exploratory study2
Personalization of structured group psychotherapy through add-on interventions: A potential for active engagement2
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