Psychotherapy Research

Article	Citations
Maladaptive defense mechanisms moderate treatment outcome in 6 months versus 12 months dialectical-behavior therapy for borderline personality disorder	106
Client perspectives on psychotherapy failure	35
Therapists’ and patients’ experiences of using patients’ self-reported data in ongoing psychotherapy processes—A systematic review and meta-analysis of qualitative studies	35
Agreement in patient-therapist alliance ratings and its relation to dropout and outcome in a large sample of cognitive behavioral therapy for panic disorder	35
Symptom reduction in DBT-informed partial hospital, intensive outpatient, and step-down programs: Mindfulness matters	33
Profiles of mentalizing in individuals with antisocial behavior: comparing state- and trait-mentalizing	33
Self-efficacy, motivation, social support, and alliance as predictors of youth psychotherapy outcomes in usual care	27
Target validation in dialectical behavior therapy skills group: Emotion regulation, mindfulness, and distress tolerance as mediators of outcome	27
A pilot and feasibility study of Sage: A couple therapy for borderline personality disorder	26
Hope predicts long-term well-being following cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety and related disorders	24
“Picking up the pieces”: Patients’ retrospective reflections of rupture resolution episodes during treatment	18
The Cooper-Norcross Inventory of Preferences: Measurement invariance across international datasets and languages	18
How does hostile resistance interfere with the benefits of cognitive–behavioral therapy for panic disorder? The role of therapist adherence and working alliance	18
Therapist in-session feelings predict change in depressive symptoms in interpersonal and brief relational psychotherapy	18
Smaller effects matter in the psychological therapies: 25 years on from Wampold et al. (1997)	18
The association between therapist internal relational models, professional self-doubt, and coping strategies and the process and outcome of psychotherapy	18
Predictors of homework engagement in group CBT for social anxiety: client beliefs about homework, its consequences, group cohesion, and working alliance	17
Group schema therapy for personality disorders: Systematic review, research agenda and treatment implications	16
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	16
Effectiveness of an online dialectical behavior therapy skills training in adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A randomized controlled trial	16
Development and validation of countertransference feeling and behavior awareness measures in an Italian and American clinician sample	16
Targeting mechanisms of change as a path to precision psychotherapy for community settings	16
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	16
Vindicating pollyanna? An experimental test of cognitive restructuring and positive thinking interventions	15
Patient motivation in group metacognitive therapy for generalized anxiety disorder	15

Therapeutic techniques and session impact: A practice-research network study in private practice	15
“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	15
The therapeutic effects of the therapists’ ability to pass their patients’ tests in psychotherapy	14
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:	14
Psychotherapist’s Nonverbal Coordination Scale: Introducing a New Measurement Tool for Child Psychotherapy	14
Feasibility of generic, short, and easy-to-use assessment of psychological distress during psychotherapy: Longitudinal measurement invariance of CORE-10 and -OM	13
Individual treatment selection for patients with post-traumatic stress disorder: External validation of a personalised advantage index	13
Statement of Retraction: Examining therapy dynamics and session outcome using differential equations model and multilevel data disaggregation	13
Therapist verification of patient self-concepts as a responsive precondition for early alliance development and subsequent introject change	13
First impressions matter: The influence of initial assessments on psychological treatment initiation and subsequent dropout	13
Patient perspectives on working with preferences in psychotherapy: A consensual qualitative research study	13
Examining therapist estimation of client working alliance and client symptom outcome using truth and bias model and response surface analysis	12
Enhancing emotion regulation	12
The effects of emotion-focused skills training on parental mental health, emotion regulation and self-efficacy: Mediating processes between parents and children	12
Direct retrospective measurement of therapeutic changes: An example using the Czech version of the Questionnaire of Personal Changes (Q-PC)	12
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Correction	12
Development of the Cultural Humility Scale—Short Form (CHS-SF)	12
Learning from mothers who received focused parent–infant psychotherapy for the treatment of their child’s regulatory disorders	11
Effectiveness of emotion-focused therapy: Main results of a practice–research network study	11
Exploring Therapist Self-Efficacy Change Profiles Using Latent Growth Curve Analysis	11
Physiological synchronization and innovative moments in psychotherapy: A single-case study of micro-process	11
Between- and within-person effects of affective experiences on coping in CBT: Direct effects and interplay with therapeutic alliance and resource activation	11
Testing of the therapist to reduce maladaptive interactional patterns: Categorizing patients’ tests	11
Relationship between outcomes and processes in patients with chronic low back pain plus depressive symptoms: Idiographic analyses within a randomized controlled trial	10
Investigating predictors of treatment response in Dialectical Behavior Therapy for borderline personality disorder using LASSO regression	10
Interpersonal factors in internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy for depression: Attachment style and alliance with the program and with the therapist	10
Supervised therapist and supervisor impact on client therapy outcomes	10
Transgender and gender diverse adults’ self-reported mental health diagnoses, engagement in mental health services, and perceptions of therapists	10
Facing the fog: barriers and facilitators to communicating uncertainty among psychologists	10
The influence of deliberate practice on skill performance in therapeutic practice: A systematic review of early studies	10
Within- and between-session changes of in-session reflective functioning of mothers in dyadic parent–infant psychotherapy	10
Alliance ruptures and resolutions in short-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy for adolescent depression: An empirical case study	10
A multi-modality and multi-dyad approach to measuring flexibility in psychotherapy	9
Psychodynamic psychotherapists’ perceptions of change: A phenomenological analysis	9
The use of mentalization-based techniques in online psychodynamic child psychotherapy	9
When and Under What Circumstances Does Neuroticism Change in the Unified Protocol?	9
Statement of Retraction: Therapist Immediacy: The association with Working Alliance, Real Relationship, Session Quality and Time in Psychotherapy	9
Group schema therapy: The temporal relationship between early maladaptive schemas and global psychological distress	9
Reactivity and stability in facial expressions as an indicator of therapeutic alliance strength	9
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	9
Renegotiating tasks or goals as rupture repair: A task analysis in a cognitive–behavioral therapy for personality disorder	9
Community belongingness during COVID-19 predicts anxiety and depression treatment change in college students	9
The implications of the Dodo bird verdict for training in psychotherapy: prioritizing process observation	9
Commentary on Loades et al. (2022): The landscape of adolescent depression	8
An interdisciplinary multimodal integrative healthcare program for somatic symptom disorder, with predominant (spinal) pain	8
“It’s like having that supervisor in the room”: Examining AI as a reflective partner	8
Harnessing implementation science to integrate ambulatory assessment data into clinical practice	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
Group member attachment style interacts with actor and partner helping alliance to predict decreasing binge eating episodes	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
Targeted Learning for Optimal Patient Assignment to Psychotherapy	8
Symptom-specific improvement across therapies and their putative mediators: A mediation network intervention analysis	7
Client-Identified Impacts of Helpful and Hindering Events in Psychotherapy: A Qualitative Meta-analysis	7
Quality of the therapeutic working alliance as a factor in intensive residential treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder	7
The therapeutic alliance and dropout in cognitive behavioral therapy of depression	7
Effectiveness of emotion-focused skills training (EFST) for parents: A randomized controlled trial investigating remission of mental health diagnosis and symptom reduction in children	7
Negative effects during multicomponent group-based treatment: A multisite study	7
From fear toward confidence: Understanding change in clinical concerns and self-efficacy in couple and family therapy students	7
Evidence of Measurement Invariance in the Working Alliance Inventory Across In-Person and Videoconferencing Psychotherapy	7
Socioeconomic status, psychotherapy duration, and return to work from disability due to common mental disorders	7
Unraveling the optimal balance of problem-related affective experiences and need satisfaction in cognitive-behavioral therapy: A response surface analysis	7
Therapists’ responsiveness in the process of ruptures and resolution: Are patients and therapists on the same page?	7
Relational depth as predictor of mental health outcomes in psychotherapy: random intercept cross-lagged analyses	6
Correction	6
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	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
Development and validation of a psychotherapy change motivation scale	6
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	6
Emotional arousal and reflective functioning among parents participating in attachment-based family therapy for LGBTQ+ young adults and their nonaccepting parents	6
Clinical factors and early life experiences associated with therapeutic alliance development in treatment for depression or binge eating	6
Self-invalidation in borderline personality disorder: A content analysis of patients’ verbalizations	6
Treatment outcomes and patient satisfaction of a virtual partial hospital program: A mixed-method study	6
Cognitive behavioral therapy and emotion-focused therapy for depression in a routine care setting: A randomized controlled pilot trial	6
Predicting dropout from psychological treatment using different machine learning algorithms, resampling methods, and sample sizes	5
Enhancing the effect of psychotherapy through systematic client feedback in outpatient mental healthcare: A cluster randomized trial.	5
Participant factors as correlates of patients’ psychotherapy outcome expectation: A meta-analytic and box-count review	5
Prediction of adolescent psychotherapy outcomes using youth- and caregiver-reported symptoms data	5
Straight, Bumpy, or Detoured: Three roads through family-based treatment for Anorexia Nervosa – a qualitative study of parents’ experiences	5
Clinician perceptions of nomothetic and individualized patient-reported outcome measures in measurement-based care	5
Direction of dependence analysis for pre-post assessments using non-Gaussian methods: a tutorial	5
“Vulnerability can breed strength”: The role of borderline personality disorder severity in movement synchrony among patients with major depressive disorder	5
Therapist cultural humility in early psychotherapy: A catalyst for improved client functioning at treatment termination	5
Exploring the factor structure of a Chinese version of the CORE-OM: Insights from network approach and bifactor modeling	5
Strength-based methods – a narrative review and comparative multilevel meta-analysis of positive interventions in clinical settings	5
Individual behavioral activation in the treatment of depression: A meta analysis	5
Relational depth from the perspective of the psychotherapy dyad: Psychometric properties of the Relational Depth Frequency Scale	5
Psychotherapy process research: Identifying productive in-session processes to enhance treatment outcomes and therapist responsiveness	5
Therapist competence, homework engagement, and client characteristics in CBT for youth depression: A study of mediation and moderation in a community-based 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 England	5
Using machine learning methods to identify trajectories of change and predict responders and non-responders to short-term dynamic therapy	5
Navigating under pressure: psychotherapists’ experiences in a randomized controlled trial of posttraumatic stress disorder related to childhood maltreatment	5
CBT therapists’ responses to client non-attendance and drop-out: A preliminary qualitative thematic analysis	5
Change in reflective functioning in interpersonal psychotherapy and cognitive behavioral therapy for major depressive disorder	5
Therapist interpersonal responsiveness: Being interpersonally flexible in response to client collaboration	5
Using the experience sampling method to support clinical practice: An illustration with problematic cannabis use	5
Race, racial matching, and cultural understanding as predictors of treatment engagement in youth mental health services	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
Emotion cascade: Harnessing emotional sequences to enhance chair work interventions and reduce self-criticism	5
Using classification trees to identify psychotherapy patients at risk for poor treatment adherence	5
Development of a new observer-rated measure to assess the real relationship in psychotherapy sessions	5
Rupture and repair in the working alliance among patients with substance use disorder	5
Improved dropout prediction in group cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) using classification trees	5
A mixed-methods evaluation of long-term outcomes after trauma-focused cognitive behavioural therapy for children subjected to family violence	5
An examination of therapists’ professional characteristics as moderators of the effect of feedback on psychological treatment outcomes	5
The why, the how, and the what next: A qualitative investigation of premature termination from psychotherapy	4
Session Reactions Scale-3: Initial psychometric evidence	4
The problematic impressions of therapy scale: a transtheoretical measure of negative patient experience in psychotherapy	4
Within-person changes in aversive reactivity predict session-to-session reductions in anxiety and depression in the unified protocol	4
Psychometric properties of the French Infant-Toddler Working Alliance Inventory Short version (IT-WAI-S)	4
Practice-based insights from specialized clinicians into youth suicide risk assessment and psychotherapy: A qualitative study	4
Evaluation of symptom network density as a predictor of treatment outcome of inpatient psychotherapy	4
Identification of Potential Therapist “Missteps” in the Context of Engagement in Public Mental Health Services: Analysis of Digital Recordings and Key Informant Validation	4
Therapist’s interventions immediately after exceeding the client’s therapeutic zone of proximal development: A comparative case study	4
Addressing interpersonal patterns in patients with personality disorders partially explains psychotherapy outcome via changes in interaction patterns: A mediation analysis	4
Mastery and motivational clarification as mediators of cognitive behavioral therapy versus exposure-based cognitive behavioral therapy for depression	4
Telephone interpersonal counseling treatment for frequent attenders to primary care: Development and piloting	4
Understanding change – developing a typology of therapy outcomes from the experience of adolescents with depression	4
Statement of Retraction: To be or not to be immediate with clients: The use and perceived effects of immediacy in psychodynamic/interpersonal psychotherapy	4
Modelling trajectories of change in psychopathology and well-being during eating disorder outpatient treatment	4
Clients’ perceptions of therapist dishonesty	4
Ambivalence resolution in the Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders: An exploratory case study	4
Therapeutic relationships in cognitive behavioral therapy: Agreement in alliance, client factors, therapist factors, and CBT specific processes	4
Young adult vulnerability and parental responsiveness in attachment-based family therapy for LGBTQ+ young adults and their nonaccepting parents	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
Flexibility between immersion and distancing: Relationship with depressive symptoms and therapeutic alliance	4
Growth in challenging situations: A qualitative investigation of therapists’ experience of delivering emotion-focused therapy	4
Clients’ Perceptions of Changes in Their Therapists’ Positive Regard in Transitioning from In-Person Therapy to Teletherapy	4
Mentalization-enhancing therapeutic interventions in the psychotherapy of anorexia nervosa: An analysis of use and influence on patients’ mentalizing capacity	4

Dampening versus amplification: Intrapersonal and interpersonal vocal affect dynamics during psychotherapy for depression	3
Meditation, mindfulness, and acceptance methods in psychotherapy: A systematic review	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
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
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
Love yourself as a therapist, doubt yourself as an institution? Therapist and institution effects on outcome, treatment length, and dropout	3
The effect of Oxytocin administration on patient-therapist alliance congruence: Results from a randomized controlled trial	3
Association between nonverbal synchrony, alliance, and outcome in psychotherapy: Systematic review and meta-analysis	3
Predicting working alliance in psychotherapy: A multi-modal machine learning approach	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
Attitudes towards virtual reality usage in exposure treatment: Data from German practitioners and how a demonstration changes them*	3
A randomized controlled trial of an adapted group cognitive-behavioral therapy for burned-out teachers	3
Efficacy of systemic therapy on adults with depressive disorders: A meta-analysis	3
Risk factors for initial appointment non-attendance at Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT) services: A retrospective analysis	3
Development and content validity of EVAD: A novel tool for evaluating and classifying the severity of adverse events for psychotherapeutic clinical trials	3
Sudden gains in PTSD symptoms and social functioning in cognitive processing therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder	3
Emotional and interpersonal states following dialectical behavioral therapy in adolescent borderline personality disorder: A proof-of-concept ecological momentary assessment outcome study	3
Trauma-focused treatments for victims of interpersonal violence: A comparison of treatment interventions and outcomes	3
Correction	3
Development and psychometric evaluation of a screening instrument for cognitive perceptual disruption (Copeds) in psychotherapy patients	3
Client-Therapist Convergence on Sleep Difficulty and its Impact on Treatment Outcomes	3
Disclosure in psychotherapy versus in anonymous and non-anonymous online spaces	3
Rater effects in evaluating therapist competencies using structured case reports: A mixed-methods study	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
Effects of preference alignment and client-rated attachment style on therapy: The moderating role of interpersonal synchrony	3
Group climate temporally precedes member improvement in emotional cultivation groups for youth	3
Factors associated with treatment retention and symptom trajectories for veterans in dialectical behavior therapy	3
Enhancing the effectiveness of CBT for patients with unipolar depression by integrating digital interventions into treatment: A pilot randomized controlled trial	3
A cohort study of engagement in telehealth psychotherapy versus in-person services	3
A comparison of the effect of two types of brief psychodynamic group therapy on perfectionism-related attitudes, self-relatedness, and self-esteem	3
Predicting resistance management skill from psychotherapy experience, intellectual humility and emotion regulation	3
Process-Based psychotherapy personalization: considering causality with continuous-time dynamic modeling	2
Secret-keeping in therapy by clients who are sexually attracted to children	2
Patient and therapist change process expectations: Independent and dyadic associations with psychotherapy outcomes	2
Correction	2
What if we wait? Using synthetic waiting lists to estimate treatment effects in routine outcome data	2
Adverse events in psychotherapy randomized controlled trials: A systematic review	2
Lessons from ten years of psychotherapy process research	2
Mechanism engagement as a potential evidence-based approach to personalized treatment termination	2
Sharing, carrying, and tolerating the pain – A meta-synthesis of clinicians’ experiences from working with adolescents who self-harm	2
Child-therapist and parent-therapist alliances and outcome in the treatment of children with oppositional defiant/conduct disorder	2
Mental health clients’ receptiveness to and recommendations for integrating physical activity discussions into therapy: A mixed methods study	2
Inter-brain plasticity as a mechanism of change in psychotherapy: A proof of concept focusing on test anxiety	2
Dropout in a clinical trial for comorbid PTSD and MDD among US service members: Are pretreatment characteristics predictive?	2
Effectiveness of solution-focused brief therapy: An umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses	2
Personalization of structured group psychotherapy through add-on interventions: A potential for active engagement	2
Therapists’ emotional responses and their relation to patients’ experience of attunement and responsiveness	2
Touch in psychotherapy: Experiences, desires and attitudes in a large population survey	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
Development of a psychotherapy process prototype for the Real Relationship	2
Sensitivity to change of the Systemic Therapy Inventory of Change (STIC) intersession scales	2
First impressions count: Therapists’ impression on patients’ motivation and helping alliance predicts psychotherapy dropout	2
Comorbidity as a moderator of the differential efficacy of transdiagnostic behavior therapy and behavioral activation for affective disorders	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
Does emotional processing predict 18-month post-therapy outcomes in the experiential treatment of major depression?	2
How to become a responsive therapist: A study of experiences of developing therapists	2
Do specific modules of cognitive behavioral therapy for depression have measurable effects on youth internalizing symptoms? An idiographic analysis	2
Affect integration, metacognitions, and early maladaptive schemas as predictors of outcome in cognitive and metacognitive therapies for social anxiety disorder	2
Maintaining relevance in psychodynamic psychotherapy: A novel approach to discerning between effective vs. ineffective discourse correlated with better session outcomes	2
Client resources and the prediction of therapeutic change using an interview: An exploratory study	2
Drawing causal inferences from randomized controlled trials in psychotherapy research	2
Therapists’ experiences of chairwork with children and adolescents: A qualitative interview analysis	2
How to interpret correlational process-outcome effect sizes in psychotherapy: a meta-analytic benchmark study	2
The therapy relationship, digital interventions, and their interaction	2
Mapping the growth of the CORE system tools in psychotherapy research from 1998 to 2021: Learning from historical evidence	2
Causal inference in a complex world — Innovations and practical approaches for psychotherapy research	2
Mechanisms of change in multicomponent group-based treatment for patients suffering from medically unexplained physical symptoms	2
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 symptoms	2
Development and Initial Validation of the Therapist Ambiguity Intolerance Scale: Evidence Based on Multilevel Data and Analyses	2
Therapists’ perceptions of interpersonally challenging patients in generalized anxiety disorder	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
Session-to-session effects of therapist adherence and facilitative conditions on symptom change in CBT and IPT for depression	2
Depression symptom clusters in adolescents: A latent class analysis in a clinical sample	2
Reconstructing dropout: Building from multiple definitions, therapist effects, and center effects	2
Four perspectives on traumatized youths’ therapeutic alliance: Correspondence and outcome predictions	2
Routine Outcome Monitoring (ROM) and Feedback: Research Review and Recommendations	2