OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Psychotherapy Research is 5. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

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	94
“Picking up the pieces”: Patients’ retrospective reflections of rupture resolution episodes during treatment	30
A pilot and feasibility study of Sage: A couple therapy for borderline personality disorder	29
Therapist in-session feelings predict change in depressive symptoms in interpersonal and brief relational psychotherapy	26
The Cooper-Norcross Inventory of Preferences: Measurement invariance across international datasets and languages	26
The association between therapist internal relational models, professional self-doubt, and coping strategies and the process and outcome of psychotherapy	26
Maladaptive defense mechanisms moderate treatment outcome in 6 months versus 12 months dialectical-behavior therapy for borderline personality disorder	25
Smaller effects matter in the psychological therapies: 25 years on from Wampold et al. (1997)	22
Self-efficacy, motivation, social support, and alliance as predictors of youth psychotherapy outcomes in usual care	22
Target validation in dialectical behavior therapy skills group: Emotion regulation, mindfulness, and distress tolerance as mediators of outcome	19
Client perspectives on psychotherapy failure	16
Agreement in patient-therapist alliance ratings and its relation to dropout and outcome in a large sample of cognitive behavioral therapy for panic disorder	16
Profiles of mentalizing in individuals with antisocial behavior: comparing state- and trait-mentalizing	16
Vindicating pollyanna? An experimental test of cognitive restructuring and positive thinking interventions	15
Symptom reduction in DBT-informed partial hospital, intensive outpatient, and step-down programs: Mindfulness matters	15
Development and validation of countertransference feeling and behavior awareness measures in an Italian and American clinician sample	15
Therapists’ and patients’ experiences of using patients’ self-reported data in ongoing psychotherapy processes—A systematic review and meta-analysis of qualitative studies	15
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
Patient motivation in group metacognitive therapy for generalized anxiety disorder	14
Predictors of homework engagement in group CBT for social anxiety: client beliefs about homework, its consequences, group cohesion, and working alliance	14
Effectiveness of an online dialectical behavior therapy skills training in adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A randomized controlled trial	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
First impressions matter: The influence of initial assessments on psychological treatment initiation and subsequent dropout	13
Therapeutic techniques and session impact: A practice-research network study in private practice	13
Statement of Retraction: Examining therapy dynamics and session outcome using differential equations model and multilevel data disaggregation	13

Group schema therapy for personality disorders: Systematic review, research agenda and treatment implications	13
Therapist verification of patient self-concepts as a responsive precondition for early alliance development and subsequent introject change	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
Individual treatment selection for patients with post-traumatic stress disorder: External validation of a personalised advantage index	12
The effects of emotion-focused skills training on parental mental health, emotion regulation and self-efficacy: Mediating processes between parents and children	12
Patient perspectives on working with preferences in psychotherapy: A consensual qualitative research study	11
The therapeutic effects of the therapists’ ability to pass their patients’ tests in psychotherapy	11
Psychotherapist’s Nonverbal Coordination Scale: Introducing a New Measurement Tool for Child Psychotherapy	11
Development of the Cultural Humility Scale—Short Form (CHS-SF)	11
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:	11
Direct retrospective measurement of therapeutic changes: An example using the Czech version of the Questionnaire of Personal Changes (Q-PC)	11
Feasibility of generic, short, and easy-to-use assessment of psychological distress during psychotherapy: Longitudinal measurement invariance of CORE-10 and -OM	11
Enhancing emotion regulation	11
Physiological synchronization and innovative moments in psychotherapy: A single-case study of micro-process	10
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Correction	10
Relationship between outcomes and processes in patients with chronic low back pain plus depressive symptoms: Idiographic analyses within a randomized controlled trial	10
Examining therapist estimation of client working alliance and client symptom outcome using truth and bias model and response surface analysis	10
Transgender and gender diverse adults’ self-reported mental health diagnoses, engagement in mental health services, and perceptions of therapists	10
Learning from mothers who received focused parent–infant psychotherapy for the treatment of their child’s regulatory disorders	10
Alliance ruptures and resolutions in short-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy for adolescent depression: An empirical case study	9
Within- and between-session changes of in-session reflective functioning of mothers in dyadic parent–infant psychotherapy	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
Statement of Retraction: Therapist Immediacy: The association with Working Alliance, Real Relationship, Session Quality and Time in Psychotherapy	9
Exploring Therapist Self-Efficacy Change Profiles Using Latent Growth Curve Analysis	9
Two kinds of sudden gains in brief psychotherapy	9
Investigating predictors of treatment response in Dialectical Behavior Therapy for borderline personality disorder using LASSO regression	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
Psychodynamic psychotherapists’ perceptions of change: A phenomenological analysis	9
The influence of deliberate practice on skill performance in therapeutic practice: A systematic review of early studies	9
Testing of the therapist to reduce maladaptive interactional patterns: Categorizing patients’ tests	9
Interpersonal factors in internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy for depression: Attachment style and alliance with the program and with the therapist	9
Effectiveness of emotion-focused therapy: Main results of a practice–research network study	9
Between- and within-person effects of affective experiences on coping in CBT: Direct effects and interplay with therapeutic alliance and resource activation	9
Targeted Learning for Optimal Patient Assignment to Psychotherapy	8
The implications of the Dodo bird verdict for training in psychotherapy: prioritizing process observation	8
The use of mentalization-based techniques in online psychodynamic child psychotherapy	8
Socioeconomic status, psychotherapy duration, and return to work from disability due to common mental disorders	8
Renegotiating tasks or goals as rupture repair: A task analysis in a cognitive–behavioral therapy for personality disorder	8
Group schema therapy: The temporal relationship between early maladaptive schemas and global psychological distress	8
When and Under What Circumstances Does Neuroticism Change in the Unified Protocol?	8
Reactivity and stability in facial expressions as an indicator of therapeutic alliance strength	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
Emotional processing during the therapy for complicated grief	8
A multi-modality and multi-dyad approach to measuring flexibility in psychotherapy	8
Community belongingness during COVID-19 predicts anxiety and depression treatment change in college students	8
Commentary on Loades et al. (2022): The landscape of adolescent depression	8
Harnessing implementation science to integrate ambulatory assessment data into clinical practice	8
Negative effects during multicomponent group-based treatment: A multisite study	7
Emotional arousal and reflective functioning among parents participating in attachment-based family therapy for LGBTQ+ young adults and their nonaccepting parents	7
Client-Identified Impacts of Helpful and Hindering Events in Psychotherapy: A Qualitative Meta-analysis	7

Development and validation of a psychotherapy change motivation scale	7
An interdisciplinary multimodal integrative healthcare program for somatic symptom disorder, with predominant (spinal) pain	7
Group member attachment style interacts with actor and partner helping alliance to predict decreasing binge eating episodes	7
Moments of change: Clients’ immediate experiences when sharing emotions in psychotherapy	7
Symptom-specific improvement across therapies and their putative mediators: A mediation network intervention analysis	6
Self-invalidation in borderline personality disorder: A content analysis of patients’ verbalizations	6
The relationship between general psychopathology in young people with family functioning and engagement with psychotherapy	6
Evidence of Measurement Invariance in the Working Alliance Inventory Across In-Person and Videoconferencing Psychotherapy	6
Bridging the feedback implementation gap: A comparison of empirical and rational decision rules in naturalistic psychotherapy	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
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
Correction	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
Therapists’ responsiveness in the process of ruptures and resolution: Are patients and therapists on the same page?	6
Clinical factors and early life experiences associated with therapeutic alliance development in treatment for depression or binge eating	6
An examination of therapists’ professional characteristics as moderators of the effect of feedback on psychological treatment outcomes	5
Does attachment predict the outcome of cognitive processing therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder in adolescent patients with interpersonal traumatization?	5
Enhancing the effect of psychotherapy through systematic client feedback in outpatient mental healthcare: A cluster randomized trial.	5
Therapist cultural humility in early psychotherapy: A catalyst for improved client functioning at treatment termination	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
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
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
Change in reflective functioning in interpersonal psychotherapy and cognitive behavioral therapy for major depressive disorder	5
Using the experience sampling method to support clinical practice: An illustration with problematic cannabis use	5
Individual behavioral activation in the treatment of depression: A meta analysis	5
Race, racial matching, and cultural understanding as predictors of treatment engagement in youth mental health services	5
Using classification trees to identify psychotherapy patients at risk for poor treatment adherence	5
The therapeutic alliance and dropout in cognitive behavioral therapy of depression	5
Psychotherapy process research: Identifying productive in-session processes to enhance treatment outcomes and therapist responsiveness	5
Predicting dropout from psychological treatment using different machine learning algorithms, resampling methods, and sample sizes	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
Prediction of adolescent psychotherapy outcomes using youth- and caregiver-reported symptoms data	5
Shedding light on the effects of supportive techniques on nonverbal synchrony and their moderators in psychotherapy for depression	5
Strength-based methods – a narrative review and comparative multilevel meta-analysis of positive interventions in clinical settings	5
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	5
Treatment outcomes and patient satisfaction of a virtual partial hospital program: A mixed-method study	5
Participant factors as correlates of patients’ psychotherapy outcome expectation: A meta-analytic and box-count review	5