OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Psychotherapy Research is 6. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Maladaptive defense mechanisms moderate treatment outcome in 6 months versus 12 months dialectical-behavior therapy for borderline personality disorder	114
Agreement in patient-therapist alliance ratings and its relation to dropout and outcome in a large sample of cognitive behavioral therapy for panic disorder	39
Profiles of mentalizing in individuals with antisocial behavior: comparing state- and trait-mentalizing	38
Self-efficacy, motivation, social support, and alliance as predictors of youth psychotherapy outcomes in usual care	36
A pilot and feasibility study of Sage: A couple therapy for borderline personality disorder	34
The Cooper-Norcross Inventory of Preferences: Measurement invariance across international datasets and languages	28
Hope predicts long-term well-being following cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety and related disorders	28
Client perspectives on psychotherapy failure	27
How does hostile resistance interfere with the benefits of cognitive–behavioral therapy for panic disorder? The role of therapist adherence and working alliance	26
Smaller effects matter in the psychological therapies: 25 years on from Wampold et al. (1997)	22
Therapists’ and patients’ experiences of using patients’ self-reported data in ongoing psychotherapy processes—A systematic review and meta-analysis of qualitative studies	20
Target validation in dialectical behavior therapy skills group: Emotion regulation, mindfulness, and distress tolerance as mediators of outcome	19
“Picking up the pieces”: Patients’ retrospective reflections of rupture resolution episodes during treatment	19
Predictors of homework engagement in group CBT for social anxiety: client beliefs about homework, its consequences, group cohesion, and working alliance	18
The association between therapist internal relational models, professional self-doubt, and coping strategies and the process and outcome of psychotherapy	18
Targeting mechanisms of change as a path to precision psychotherapy for community settings	17
Group schema therapy for personality disorders: Systematic review, research agenda and treatment implications	17
“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	17
Effectiveness of an online dialectical behavior therapy skills training in adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A randomized controlled trial	17
Vindicating pollyanna? An experimental test of cognitive restructuring and positive thinking interventions	17
Development and validation of countertransference feeling and behavior awareness measures in an Italian and American clinician sample	17
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	17
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
Therapeutic techniques and session impact: A practice-research network study in private practice	16
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:	16

Exploring the attitudes toward receiving information on potential negative effects of psychological treatments: A mixed-methods study	16
Psychotherapist’s Nonverbal Coordination Scale: Introducing a New Measurement Tool for Child Psychotherapy	15
Therapist verification of patient self-concepts as a responsive precondition for early alliance development and subsequent introject change	14
Statement of Retraction: Examining therapy dynamics and session outcome using differential equations model and multilevel data disaggregation	14
The effects of emotion-focused skills training on parental mental health, emotion regulation and self-efficacy: Mediating processes between parents and children	14
Individual treatment selection for patients with post-traumatic stress disorder: External validation of a personalised advantage index	13
Enhancing emotion regulation	13
Direct retrospective measurement of therapeutic changes: An example using the Czech version of the Questionnaire of Personal Changes (Q-PC)	13
The therapeutic effects of the therapists’ ability to pass their patients’ tests in psychotherapy	13
Patient perspectives on working with preferences in psychotherapy: A consensual qualitative research study	13
Development of the Cultural Humility Scale—Short Form (CHS-SF)	13
Learning from mothers who received focused parent–infant psychotherapy for the treatment of their child’s regulatory disorders	12
Examining therapist estimation of client working alliance and client symptom outcome using truth and bias model and response surface analysis	12
Between- and within-person effects of affective experiences on coping in CBT: Direct effects and interplay with therapeutic alliance and resource activation	12
First impressions matter: The influence of initial assessments on psychological treatment initiation and subsequent dropout	12
Physiological synchronization and innovative moments in psychotherapy: A single-case study of micro-process	12
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Correction	12
Feasibility of generic, short, and easy-to-use assessment of psychological distress during psychotherapy: Longitudinal measurement invariance of CORE-10 and -OM	12
Interpersonal factors in internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy for depression: Attachment style and alliance with the program and with the therapist	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	11
Alliance ruptures and resolutions in short-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy for adolescent depression: An empirical case study	11
Transgender and gender diverse adults’ self-reported mental health diagnoses, engagement in mental health services, and perceptions of therapists	11
Supervised therapist and supervisor impact on client therapy outcomes	11
Investigating predictors of treatment response in Dialectical Behavior Therapy for borderline personality disorder using LASSO regression	11
Effectiveness of emotion-focused therapy: Main results of a practice–research network study	11
Within- and between-session changes of in-session reflective functioning of mothers in dyadic parent–infant psychotherapy	11
The influence of deliberate practice on skill performance in therapeutic practice: A systematic review of early studies	11
Facing the fog: barriers and facilitators to communicating uncertainty among psychologists	11
Group schema therapy: The temporal relationship between early maladaptive schemas and global psychological distress	10
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	10
Community belongingness during COVID-19 predicts anxiety and depression treatment change in college students	10
A multi-modality and multi-dyad approach to measuring flexibility in psychotherapy	10
When and Under What Circumstances Does Neuroticism Change in the Unified Protocol?	10
Renegotiating tasks or goals as rupture repair: A task analysis in a cognitive–behavioral therapy for personality disorder	10
Statement of Retraction: Therapist Immediacy: The association with Working Alliance, Real Relationship, Session Quality and Time in Psychotherapy	10
Psychodynamic psychotherapists’ perceptions of change: A phenomenological analysis	10
Harnessing implementation science to integrate ambulatory assessment data into clinical practice	9
The implications of the Dodo bird verdict for training in psychotherapy: prioritizing process observation	9
An interdisciplinary multimodal integrative healthcare program for somatic symptom disorder, with predominant (spinal) pain	9
Commentary on Loades et al. (2022): The landscape of adolescent depression	9
Reactivity and stability in facial expressions as an indicator of therapeutic alliance strength	9
Moments of change: Clients’ immediate experiences when sharing emotions in psychotherapy	9
Towards a taxonomy of mechanisms of change? Findings from an expert survey on the association between common factors and specific techniques in psychotherapy	9
The use of mentalization-based techniques in online psychodynamic child psychotherapy	9
From fear toward confidence: Understanding change in clinical concerns and self-efficacy in couple and family therapy students	8
Negative effects during multicomponent group-based treatment: A multisite study	8
Group member attachment style interacts with actor and partner helping alliance to predict decreasing binge eating episodes	8
Socioeconomic status, psychotherapy duration, and return to work from disability due to common mental disorders	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

“It’s like having that supervisor in the room”: Examining AI as a reflective partner	8
Targeted Learning for Optimal Patient Assignment to Psychotherapy	8
Correction	7
Quality of the therapeutic working alliance as a factor in intensive residential treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder	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
The relationship between general psychopathology in young people with family functioning and engagement with psychotherapy	7
Self-invalidation in borderline personality disorder: A content analysis of patients’ verbalizations	7
Unraveling the optimal balance of problem-related affective experiences and need satisfaction in cognitive-behavioral therapy: A response surface analysis	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
Bridging the feedback implementation gap: A comparison of empirical and rational decision rules in naturalistic psychotherapy	7
Clinical factors and early life experiences associated with therapeutic alliance development in treatment for depression or binge eating	7
Relational depth as predictor of mental health outcomes in psychotherapy: random intercept cross-lagged analyses	7
The therapeutic alliance and dropout in cognitive behavioral therapy of depression	7
Cognitive behavioral therapy and emotion-focused therapy for depression in a routine care setting: A randomized controlled pilot trial	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	6
Therapists’ responsiveness in the process of ruptures and resolution: Are patients and therapists on the same page?	6
Enhancing the effect of psychotherapy through systematic client feedback in outpatient mental healthcare: A cluster randomized trial.	6
Psychotherapy process research: Identifying productive in-session processes to enhance treatment outcomes and therapist responsiveness	6
Race, racial matching, and cultural understanding as predictors of treatment engagement in youth mental health services	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
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	6
Emotional arousal and reflective functioning among parents participating in attachment-based family therapy for LGBTQ+ young adults and their nonaccepting parents	6
Using classification trees to identify psychotherapy patients at risk for poor treatment adherence	6
Strength-based methods – a narrative review and comparative multilevel meta-analysis of positive interventions in clinical settings	6
Relational depth from the perspective of the psychotherapy dyad: Psychometric properties of the Relational Depth Frequency Scale	6
Symptom-specific improvement across therapies and their putative mediators: A mediation network intervention analysis	6
Treatment outcomes and patient satisfaction of a virtual partial hospital program: A mixed-method study	6
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	6
Predicting dropout from psychological treatment using different machine learning algorithms, resampling methods, and sample sizes	6
Participant factors as correlates of patients’ psychotherapy outcome expectation: A meta-analytic and box-count review	6
Emotion cascade: Harnessing emotional sequences to enhance chair work interventions and reduce self-criticism	6
Prediction of adolescent psychotherapy outcomes using youth- and caregiver-reported symptoms data	6