Psychotherapy Research

Article	Citations
How does hostile resistance interfere with the benefits of cognitive–behavioral therapy for panic disorder? The role of therapist adherence and working alliance	79
“Picking up the pieces”: Patients’ retrospective reflections of rupture resolution episodes during treatment	60
Client perspectives on psychotherapy failure	38
A pilot and feasibility study of Sage: A couple therapy for borderline personality disorder	25
Maladaptive defense mechanisms moderate treatment outcome in 6 months versus 12 months dialectical-behavior therapy for borderline personality disorder	25
The Cooper-Norcross Inventory of Preferences: Measurement invariance across international datasets and languages	24
Symptom reduction in DBT-informed partial hospital, intensive outpatient, and step-down programs: Mindfulness matters	23
Therapist in-session feelings predict change in depressive symptoms in interpersonal and brief relational psychotherapy	22
Self-efficacy, motivation, social support, and alliance as predictors of youth psychotherapy outcomes in usual care	21
Smaller effects matter in the psychological therapies: 25 years on from Wampold et al. (1997)	19
Agreement in patient-therapist alliance ratings and its relation to dropout and outcome in a large sample of cognitive behavioral therapy for panic disorder	18
The association between therapist internal relational models, professional self-doubt, and coping strategies and the process and outcome of psychotherapy	18
Therapists’ and patients’ experiences of using patients’ self-reported data in ongoing psychotherapy processes—A systematic review and meta-analysis of qualitative studies	16
Development and validation of countertransference feeling and behavior awareness measures in an Italian and American clinician sample	15
Vindicating pollyanna? An experimental test of cognitive restructuring and positive thinking interventions	14
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 approach	14
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 center	14
Patient motivation in group metacognitive therapy for generalized anxiety disorder	13
The therapeutic effects of the therapists’ ability to pass their patients’ tests in psychotherapy	13
Effectiveness of an online dialectical behavior therapy skills training in adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A randomized controlled trial	13
Feasibility of generic, short, and easy-to-use assessment of psychological distress during psychotherapy: Longitudinal measurement invariance of CORE-10 and -OM	13
Predictors of homework engagement in group CBT for social anxiety: client beliefs about homework, its consequences, group cohesion, and working alliance	13
“It Felt Like I Was Being Tailored to the Treatment Rather Than the Treatment Being Tailored to Me”: Patient Experiences of Helpful and Unhelpful Psychotherapy	13
Group schema therapy for personality disorders: Systematic review, research agenda and treatment implications	13
Statement of Retraction: Examining therapy dynamics and session outcome using differential equations model and multilevel data disaggregation	12

Direct retrospective measurement of therapeutic changes: an example using the Czech version of the Questionnaire of Personal Changes (Q-PC)	12
Therapist verification of patient self-concepts as a responsive precondition for early alliance development and subsequent introject change	12
Therapeutic techniques and session impact: A practice-research network study in private practice	12
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:	12
First impressions matter: The influence of initial assessments on psychological treatment initiation and subsequent dropout	12
The effects of emotion-focused skills training on parental mental health, emotion regulation and self-efficacy: Mediating processes between parents and children	12
Individual treatment selection for patients with post-traumatic stress disorder: External validation of a personalised advantage index	11
The competence development of German psychotherapy trainees: A naturalistic, longitudinal and multidimensional outcome study	11
Patient perspectives on working with preferences in psychotherapy: A consensual qualitative research study	11
Development of the Cultural Humility Scale—Short Form (CHS-SF)	11
Examining therapist estimation of client working alliance and client symptom outcome using truth and bias model and response surface analysis	11
Enhancing emotion regulation	11
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Correction	11
Physiological synchronization and innovative moments in psychotherapy: A single-case study of micro-process	10
Effectiveness of emotion-focused therapy: Main results of a practice–research network study	10
Transgender and gender diverse adults’ self-reported mental health diagnoses, engagement in mental health services, and perceptions of therapists	9
The influence of deliberate practice on skill performance in therapeutic practice: A systematic review of early studies	9
Within- and between-session changes of in-session reflective functioning of mothers in dyadic parent–infant psychotherapy	9
Two kinds of sudden gains in brief psychotherapy	9
Testing of the therapist to reduce maladaptive interactional patterns: Categorizing patients’ tests	9
Between- and within-person effects of affective experiences on coping in CBT: Direct effects and interplay with therapeutic alliance and resource activation	9
Learning from mothers who received focused parent–infant psychotherapy for the treatment of their child’s regulatory disorders	9
Investigating predictors of treatment response in Dialectical Behavior Therapy for borderline personality disorder using LASSO regression	9
Relationship between outcomes and processes in patients with chronic low back pain plus depressive symptoms: idiographic analyses within a randomized controlled trial	9
Exploring Therapist Self-Efficacy Change Profiles Using Latent Growth Curve Analysis	9
Alliance ruptures and resolutions in short-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy for adolescent depression: An empirical case study	9
Interpersonal factors in internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy for depression: Attachment style and alliance with the program and with the therapist	8
Group schema therapy: The temporal relationship between early maladaptive schemas and global psychological distress	8
Reactivity and stability in facial expressions as an indicator of therapeutic alliance strength	8
Community belongingness during COVID-19 predicts anxiety and depression treatment change in college students	8
Socioeconomic status, psychotherapy duration, and return to work from disability due to common mental disorders	8
The use of mentalization-based techniques in online psychodynamic child psychotherapy	8
Statement of Retraction: Therapist Immediacy: The association with Working Alliance, Real Relationship, Session Quality and Time in Psychotherapy	8
A multi-modality and multi-dyad approach to measuring flexibility in psychotherapy	8
Emotional processing during the therapy for complicated grief	8
Towards a taxonomy of mechanisms of change? Findings from an expert survey on the association between common factors and specific techniques in psychotherapy	8
Moments of change: Clients’ immediate experiences when sharing emotions in psychotherapy	8
Renegotiating tasks or goals as rupture repair: A task analysis in a cognitive–behavioral therapy for personality disorder	8
The implications of the Dodo bird verdict for training in psychotherapy: prioritizing process observation	8
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 setti	8
Commentary on Loades et al. (2022): The landscape of adolescent depression	8
Project ASPIRE: A feasibility randomized controlled trial of a brief intervention for reducing risk of depression and alcohol-related harms among South African adolescents	8
Negative effects during multicomponent group-based treatment: A multisite study	7
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 trial	7
Treatment outcomes and patient satisfaction of a virtual partial hospital program: A mixed-method study	7
Clinical factors and early life experiences associated with therapeutic alliance development in treatment for depression or binge eating	7
An interdisciplinary multimodal integrative healthcare program for somatic symptom disorder, with predominant (spinal) pain	7
Therapists’ responsiveness in the process of ruptures and resolution: Are patients and therapists on the same page?	7
Development and validation of a psychotherapy change motivation scale	7
Evidence of Measurement Invariance in the Working Alliance Inventory Across In-Person and Videoconferencing Psychotherapy	7

Harnessing implementation science to integrate ambulatory assessment data into clinical practice	7
Client-Identified Impacts of Helpful and Hindering Events in Psychotherapy: A Qualitative Meta-analysis	7
Group member attachment style interacts with actor and partner helping alliance to predict decreasing binge eating episodes	7
Correction	7
Emotional arousal and reflective functioning among parents participating in attachment-based family therapy for LGBTQ+ young adults and their nonaccepting parents	7
Comparing helpful and hindering processes in good and poor outcome cases: A qualitative metasynthesis of eight Hermeneutic Single Case Efficacy Design studies	6
Bridging the feedback implementation gap: A comparison of empirical and rational decision rules in naturalistic psychotherapy	6
The relationship between general psychopathology in young people with family functioning and engagement with psychotherapy	6
Quality of the therapeutic working alliance as a factor in intensive residential treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder	6
Unraveling the optimal balance of problem-related affective experiences and need satisfaction in cognitive-behavioral therapy: A response surface analysis	6
Symptom-specific improvement across therapies and their putative mediators: A mediation network intervention analysis	6
Effectiveness of emotion-focused skills training (EFST) for parents: A randomized controlled trial investigating remission of mental health diagnosis and symptom reduction in children	6
Enhancing the effect of psychotherapy through systematic client feedback in outpatient mental healthcare: A cluster randomized trial.	5
The evaluation of religious and spirituality-based therapy compared to standard treatment in mental health care: A multi-level meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	5
Shedding light on the effects of supportive techniques on nonverbal synchrony and their moderators in psychotherapy for depression	5
Individual behavioral activation in the treatment of depression: A meta analysis	5
Toward an experimental analysis of verbal shaping in psychotherapy	5
Participant factors as correlates of patients’ psychotherapy outcome expectation: A meta-analytic and box-count review	5
Relational depth from the perspective of the psychotherapy dyad: Psychometric properties of the Relational Depth Frequency Scale	5
Emotion cascade: Harnessing emotional sequences to enhance chair work interventions and reduce self-criticism	5
The therapeutic alliance and dropout in cognitive behavioral therapy of depression	5
Outcome expectations and working alliance may be more important for patients from rural areas during the transition to college life: An exploratory within-patient analysis	5
Predicting dropout from psychological treatment using different machine learning algorithms, resampling methods, and sample sizes	5
Prediction of adolescent psychotherapy outcomes using youth- and caregiver-reported symptoms data	5
Self-invalidation in borderline personality disorder: A content analysis of patients’ verbalizations	5
Psychotherapy process research: Identifying productive in-session processes to enhance treatment outcomes and therapist responsiveness	5
Strength-based methods – a narrative review and comparative multilevel meta-analysis of positive interventions in clinical settings	5
Using classification trees to identify psychotherapy patients at risk for poor treatment adherence	5
Race, racial matching, and cultural understanding as predictors of treatment engagement in youth mental health services	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 England	5
Improved dropout prediction in group cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) using classification trees	4
Addressing interpersonal patterns in patients with personality disorders partially explains psychotherapy outcome via changes in interaction patterns: A mediation analysis	4
Young adult vulnerability and parental responsiveness in attachment-based family therapy for LGBTQ+ young adults and their nonaccepting parents	4
Psychometric properties of the French Infant-Toddler Working Alliance Inventory Short version (IT-WAI-S)	4
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 sample	4
Therapeutic relationships in cognitive behavioral therapy: Agreement in alliance, client factors, therapist factors, and CBT specific processes	4
“Vulnerability can breed strength”: The role of borderline personality disorder severity in movement synchrony among patients with major depressive disorder	4
Change in reflective functioning in interpersonal psychotherapy and cognitive behavioral therapy for major depressive disorder	4
Clinician perceptions of nomothetic and individualized patient-reported outcome measures in measurement-based care	4
Using the experience sampling method to support clinical practice: An illustration with problematic cannabis use	4
Development of a new observer-rated measure to assess the real relationship in psychotherapy sessions	4
Session Reactions Scale-3: Initial psychometric evidence	4
Mastery and motivational clarification as mediators of cognitive behavioral therapy versus exposure-based cognitive behavioral therapy for depression	4
Growth in challenging situations: A qualitative investigation of therapists’ experience of delivering emotion-focused therapy	4
Therapist’s interventions immediately after exceeding the client’s therapeutic zone of proximal development: A comparative case study	4
Direction of dependence analysis for pre-post assessments using non-Gaussian methods: a tutorial	4
Therapist competence, homework engagement, and client characteristics in CBT for youth depression: A study of mediation and moderation in a community-based trial	4
An examination of therapists’ professional characteristics as moderators of the effect of feedback on psychological treatment outcomes	4
Therapist cultural humility in early psychotherapy: A catalyst for improved client functioning at treatment termination	4
A mixed-methods evaluation of long-term outcomes after trauma-focused cognitive behavioural therapy for children subjected to family violence	4
Therapist interpersonal responsiveness: Being interpersonally flexible in response to client collaboration	4
Telephone interpersonal counseling treatment for frequent attenders to primary care: Development and piloting	4
Within-person changes in aversive reactivity predict session-to-session reductions in anxiety and depression in the unified protocol	4
Ambivalence resolution in the Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders: An exploratory case study	4
Using machine learning methods to identify trajectories of change and predict responders and non-responders to short-term dynamic therapy	4
Does attachment predict the outcome of cognitive processing therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder in adolescent patients with interpersonal traumatization?	4
Exploring the factor structure of a Chinese version of the CORE-OM: insights from network approach and bifactor modeling	4
Practice-based insights from specialized clinicians into youth suicide risk assessment and psychotherapy: A qualitative study	3
Is it me, is it you or is it both of US? Applying the social relations model to disentangle the components of the therapeutic bond	3
Routine Outcome Monitoring (ROM) and Feedback: Research Review and Recommendations	3
Correction	3
Efficacy of systemic therapy on adults with depressive disorders: A meta-analysis	3
Rater effects in evaluating therapist competencies using structured case reports: A mixed-methods study	3
Disclosure in psychotherapy versus in anonymous and non-anonymous online spaces	3
Effects of preference alignment and client-rated attachment style on therapy: The moderating role of interpersonal synchrony	3
Student counsellor experiences of mindfulness-based intervention training: A systematic review of the qualitative literature	3
Do routine outcome monitoring measures tell the same story? Evaluating outcome trajectories and clinical outcomes for the outcome rating scale and outcome questionnaire - 45	3
Statement of Retraction: To be or not to be immediate with clients: The use and perceived effects of immediacy in psychodynamic/interpersonal psychotherapy	3
Evaluation of symptom network density as a predictor of treatment outcome of inpatient psychotherapy	3
Effects and experiences of idiographic patient-reported outcome measures for feedback in psychotherapy: A systematic review and secondary analysis of the empirical literature	3
Client-therapist congruence in session-helpfulness ratings and its association with therapy outcomes	3
Enhancing the effectiveness of CBT for patients with unipolar depression by integrating digital interventions into treatment: A pilot randomized controlled trial	3
Emotional and interpersonal states following dialectical behavioral therapy in adolescent borderline personality disorder: A proof-of-concept ecological momentary assessment outcome study	3
A comparison of the effect of two types of brief psychodynamic group therapy on perfectionism-related attitudes, self-relatedness, and self-esteem	3
Process-Based psychotherapy personalization: considering causality with continuous-time dynamic modeling	3
Client-Therapist Convergence on Sleep Difficulty and its Impact on Treatment Outcomes	3
Love yourself as a therapist, doubt yourself as an institution? Therapist and institution effects on outcome, treatment length, and dropout	3
Risk factors for initial appointment non-attendance at Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT) services: A retrospective analysis	3
Predicting resistance management skill from psychotherapy experience, intellectual humility and emotion regulation	3
The meaning and feeling of the time and space between psychotherapy sessions and everyday life: Client experiences of transitions	3

Identifying the origins of countertransference using the Core Conflictual Relationship Theme method: A multiple case study approach	3
Clients’ Perceptions of Changes in Their Therapists’ Positive Regard in Transitioning from In-Person Therapy to Teletherapy	3
Flexibility between immersion and distancing: Relationship with depressive symptoms and therapeutic alliance	3
Sudden gains in PTSD symptoms and social functioning in cognitive processing therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder	3
How to interpret correlational process-outcome effect sizes in psychotherapy: a meta-analytic benchmark study	3
Therapists’ emotional responses and their relation to patients’ experience of attunement and responsiveness	3
Development and psychometric evaluation of a screening instrument for cognitive perceptual disruption (Copeds) in psychotherapy patients	3
The utility of completing adjuvant video lessons based on the unified protocol during psychotherapy: A retrospective study using a telehealth platform in routine clinical care	3
Meditation, mindfulness, and acceptance methods in psychotherapy: A systematic review	3
Trauma-focused treatments for victims of interpersonal violence: A comparison of treatment interventions and outcomes	3
A randomized controlled trial of an adapted group cognitive-behavioral therapy for burned-out teachers	3
Development and content validity of EVAD: A novel tool for evaluating and classifying the severity of adverse events for psychotherapeutic clinical trials	3
Understanding change – developing a typology of therapy outcomes from the experience of adolescents with depression	3
Modelling trajectories of change in psychopathology and well-being during eating disorder outpatient treatment	3
Mentalization-enhancing therapeutic interventions in the psychotherapy of anorexia nervosa: An analysis of use and influence on patients’ mentalizing capacity	3
Client resources and the prediction of therapeutic change using an interview: An exploratory study	2
Four perspectives on traumatized youths’ therapeutic alliance: Correspondence and outcome predictions	2
Predicting working alliance in psychotherapy: A multi-modal machine learning approach	2
Drawing causal inferences from randomized controlled trials in psychotherapy research	2
Development of a psychotherapy process prototype for the Real Relationship	2
Session-to-session effects of therapist adherence and facilitative conditions on symptom change in CBT and IPT for depression	2
Maintaining relevance in psychodynamic psychotherapy: A novel approach to discerning between effective vs. ineffective discourse correlated with better session outcomes	2
Mechanisms of change in multicomponent group-based treatment for patients suffering from medically unexplained physical symptoms	2
Child-therapist and parent-therapist alliances and outcome in the treatment of children with oppositional defiant/conduct disorder	2
Symptom change trajectories in patients with persistent somatic symptoms and their association to long-term treatment outcome	2
Sharing, carrying, and tolerating the pain – A meta-synthesis of clinicians’ experiences from working with adolescents who self-harm	2
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
Patients’ judgments of the importance of treatment-induced reductions in symptoms of depression: The role of specific symptoms, magnitudes of change, and post-treatment levels	2
Dropout in a clinical trial for comorbid PTSD and MDD among US service members: Are pretreatment characteristics predictive?	2
A cohort study of engagement in telehealth psychotherapy versus in-person services	2
Personalization of structured group psychotherapy through add-on interventions: A potential for active engagement	2
Secret-keeping in therapy by clients who are sexually attracted to children	2
Affect integration, metacognitions, and early maladaptive schemas as predictors of outcome in cognitive and metacognitive therapies for social anxiety disorder	2
Inter-brain plasticity as a mechanism of change in psychotherapy: A proof of concept focusing on test anxiety	2
Does emotional processing predict 18-month post-therapy outcomes in the experiential treatment of major depression?	2
First impressions count: Therapists’ impression on patients’ motivation and helping alliance predicts psychotherapy dropout	2
How to become a responsive therapist: A study of experiences of developing therapists	2
Adverse events in psychotherapy randomized controlled trials: A systematic review	2
Evaluation of male-specific psychoeducation for major depressive disorder compared to cognitive behavioral therapy psychoeducation: A randomized controlled investigation in mentally distressed men	2
Depression symptom clusters in adolescents: A latent class analysis in a clinical sample	2
Association between nonverbal synchrony, alliance, and outcome in psychotherapy: Systematic review and meta-analysis	2
The effect of Oxytocin administration on patient-therapist alliance congruence: Results from a randomized controlled trial	2
Patient and therapist change process expectations: Independent and dyadic associations with psychotherapy outcomes	2
Reconstructing dropout: Building from multiple definitions, therapist effects, and center effects	2
Lessons from ten years of psychotherapy process research	2
Mental health clients’ receptiveness to and recommendations for integrating physical activity discussions into therapy: A mixed methods study	2
Therapists’ perceptions of interpersonally challenging patients in generalized anxiety disorder	2
The therapy relationship, digital interventions, and their interaction	2
“I didn’t have to look her in the eyes”—participants’ experiences of the therapeutic relationship in internet-based psychodynamic therapy for adolescent depression	2