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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

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	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
The association between therapist internal relational models, professional self-doubt, and coping strategies and the process and outcome of psychotherapy	18
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
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
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
Vindicating pollyanna? An experimental test of cognitive restructuring and positive thinking interventions	14
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Strength-based methods – a narrative review and comparative multilevel meta-analysis of positive interventions in clinical settings	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
Using classification trees to identify psychotherapy patients at risk for poor treatment adherence	5