OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Psychotherapy Research is 4. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Do routine outcome monitoring measures tell the same story? Evaluating outcome trajectories and clinical outcomes for the outcome rating scale and outcome questionnaire - 45	70
Correction	54
Somatic symptom profiles are associated with pre-treatment depression and anxiety symptom severity but not inpatient therapy outcomes	41
Fluctuations in therapist responsiveness facing clients with borderline personality disorder: Starting therapy on the right foot	36
Do patients internalize the positive regard they are offered? A dyadic test of a Rogerian condition	24
Lessons from ten years of psychotherapy process research	24
Does emotional processing predict 18-month post-therapy outcomes in the experiential treatment of major depression?	20
A person-centered, transdiagnostic schema and mode profile approach to predict outcome in time-limited schema group therapy	19
The nature, motives, and perceived consequences of therapist dishonesty	19
A longitudinal view of an approach to responsiveness: Principles followed and lessons learned	18
First impressions count: Therapists’ impression on patients’ motivation and helping alliance predicts psychotherapy dropout	16
Comparing helpful and hindering processes in good and poor outcome cases: A qualitative metasynthesis of eight Hermeneutic Single Case Efficacy Design studies	15
Assessing therapist skills in teletherapy: the development and validation of the tele-facilitative interpersonal skills task	14
Therapist in-session feelings predict change in depressive symptoms in interpersonal and brief relational psychotherapy	14
Client perspectives on psychotherapy failure	14
Self-invalidation in borderline personality disorder: A content analysis of patients’ verbalizations	14
Effectiveness of solution-focused brief therapy: An umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses	13
Illustrating systemic change in family therapy: How therapists’ and clients’ alliance perceptions codevelop over time	13
Rater effects in evaluating therapist competencies using structured case reports: A mixed-methods study	13
The therapeutic alliance and dropout in cognitive behavioral therapy of depression	13
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	12
Self-efficacy, motivation, social support, and alliance as predictors of youth psychotherapy outcomes in usual care	12
Comorbidity as a moderator of the differential efficacy of transdiagnostic behavior therapy and behavioral activation for affective disorders	12
A randomized controlled trial of an adapted group cognitive-behavioral therapy for burned-out teachers	12
Symptom-specific improvement across therapies and their putative mediators: A mediation network intervention analysis	11

Symptom reduction in DBT-informed partial hospital, intensive outpatient, and step-down programs: Mindfulness matters	11
Development and validation of a psychotherapy change motivation scale	11
Unraveling the optimal balance of problem-related affective experiences and need satisfaction in cognitive-behavioral therapy: A response surface analysis	11
Meditation, mindfulness, and acceptance methods in psychotherapy: A systematic review	10
What time-varying network models based on functional analysis tell us about the course of a patient's problem	10
“Picking up the pieces”: Patients’ retrospective reflections of rupture resolution episodes during treatment	10
Clinical factors and early life experiences associated with therapeutic alliance development in treatment for depression or binge eating	10
The relationship between general psychopathology in young people with family functioning and engagement with psychotherapy	10
Psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation Outcome Measure (CORE-OM) in Chile	10
Sudden gains in PTSD symptoms and social functioning in cognitive processing therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder	9
The Cooper-Norcross Inventory of Preferences: Measurement invariance across international datasets and languages	9
Therapists’ responsiveness in the process of ruptures and resolution: Are patients and therapists on the same page?	9
The role of experiential avoidance in the early stages of an online mindfulness-based intervention: Two mediation studies	9
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	9
How does hostile resistance interfere with the benefits of cognitive–behavioral therapy for panic disorder? The role of therapist adherence and working alliance	8
Agreement in patient-therapist alliance ratings and its relation to dropout and outcome in a large sample of cognitive behavioral therapy for panic disorder	8
Therapists’ perceptions of interpersonally challenging patients in generalized anxiety disorder	8
Risk factors for initial appointment non-attendance at Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT) services: A retrospective analysis	8
Innovative moments in recovered cases treated with the unified protocol for transdiagnostic treatment of emotional disorders	8
Repeated assessments of depressive symptoms in randomized psychosocial intervention trials: best practice for analyzing symptom change over time	8
Do specific modules of cognitive behavioral therapy for depression have measurable effects on youth internalizing symptoms? An idiographic analysis	8
Symptom change trajectories in patients with persistent somatic symptoms and their association to long-term treatment outcome	8
Mechanisms of change in multicomponent group-based treatment for patients suffering from medically unexplained physical symptoms	8
Implicit relational aspects of the therapeutic relationship in psychoanalytic treatments: an examination of linguistic style entrainment over time	7
Therapists’ and patients’ experiences of using patients’ self-reported data in ongoing psychotherapy processes—A systematic review and meta-analysis of qualitative studies	7
The meaning and feeling of the time and space between psychotherapy sessions and everyday life: Client experiences of transitions	7
Machine learned text topics improve drop-out risk prediction but not symptom prediction in online psychotherapies for depression and anxiety	7
Child-therapist and parent-therapist alliances and outcome in the treatment of children with oppositional defiant/conduct disorder	7
Emotion-focused group therapy among women with premenstrual dysphoric disorder: A randomized clinical trial	7
Development of a brief therapist presence inventory in China using multilevel factor analysis and item response theory	7
A first look at diversity gaps in psychotherapy research publications and representation	7
Bridging the feedback implementation gap: A comparison of empirical and rational decision rules in naturalistic psychotherapy	7
“Business as usual won’t work … ”: Therapists’ experiences and preparedness for providing refugees with trauma-related interventions	7
Quality of the therapeutic working alliance as a factor in intensive residential treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder	7
Emotional arousal and reflective functioning among parents participating in attachment-based family therapy for LGBTQ+ young adults and their nonaccepting parents	7
Client-counselor behavioral and inter-brain synchronization among dismissing and secure clients and its association with alliance quality and outcome	7
Maladaptive defense mechanisms moderate treatment outcome in 6 months versus 12 months dialectical-behavior therapy for borderline personality disorder	7
Avoidance and fear day by day in social anxiety disorder	6
Student counsellor experiences of mindfulness-based intervention training: A systematic review of the qualitative literature	6
Therapists' perception of the working alliance, real relationship and therapeutic presence in in-person therapy versus tele-therapy	6
Comparing counseling outcome for college students: Metaverse and in-person approaches	6
Participant factors as correlates of patients’ psychotherapy outcome expectation: A meta-analytic and box-count review	6
Electrodermal and respiratory synchrony in couple therapy in distinct therapeutic subsystems and reflection periods	6
Is symptom outcome the whole story?—A multilevel meta-analysis of systemic therapy for adults including family system functioning	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
Engaging with difficult topics and emotional experiences in psychotherapy: A study of helpful therapist acts	6
Practices of personalized treatment selection among German psychotherapists: A preregistered mixed methods study	6
Does psychological process change during psychotherapy predict long-term depression outcome after successful cognitive therapy or interpersonal psychotherapy? Secondary analysis of a randomized trial	6
Smaller effects matter in the psychological therapies: 25 years on from Wampold et al. (1997)	6
Treatment outcomes and patient satisfaction of a virtual partial hospital program: A mixed-method study	6

Content and attainment of individual treatment goals in CBT	5
Shedding light on the effects of supportive techniques on nonverbal synchrony and their moderators in psychotherapy for depression	5
Can cognitive inflexibility reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression? Promoting the structural nested mean model in psychotherapy research	5
Predictors of homework engagement in group CBT for social anxiety: client beliefs about homework, its consequences, group cohesion, and working alliance	5
Client preferences, therapy activities and preference-activity match as predictors of therapy outcome	5
Patient motivation in group metacognitive therapy for generalized anxiety disorder	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
Love yourself as a therapist, doubt yourself as an institution? Therapist and institution effects on outcome, treatment length, and dropout	5
Therapists’ experiences of negative effects in intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy: A qualitative interview study	5
Do treatments for mental disorders affect relationship satisfaction? A systematic review and meta-analysis	5
Prediction of adolescent psychotherapy outcomes using youth- and caregiver-reported symptoms data	5
Mechanism engagement as a potential evidence-based approach to personalized treatment termination	5
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	5
A double-blind study of empathic support and expectation as mechanisms of symptom change	5
Are some therapists better at facilitating and consolidating sudden gains than others?	5
Client-Therapist Convergence on Sleep Difficulty and its Impact on Treatment Outcomes	5
Is the quality of therapeutic collaboration associated with the assimilation of problematic experiences progress? A comparison of two cases	5
Clients’ experiences with a Trauma-sensitive mindfulness and compassion group intervention: a first-person perspective on change and change mechanisms	5
Antecedents and consequences of open and closed questions in intake sessions of psychodynamic psychotherapy	5
Causal inference in a complex world — Innovations and practical approaches for psychotherapy research	5
Sensitivity to change of the Systemic Therapy Inventory of Change (STIC) intersession scales	5
Are perceptions of the psychotherapist affected by the audiovisual quality of a teletherapy session?	4
Effects and experiences of idiographic patient-reported outcome measures for feedback in psychotherapy: A systematic review and secondary analysis of the empirical literature	4
Effectiveness of an online dialectical behavior therapy skills training in adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A randomized controlled trial	4
For whom should psychotherapy focus on problem coping? A machine learning algorithm for treatment personalization	4
Informing patients about possible negative effects of psychological treatment: A survey of Swedish clinical psychologists’ attitudes and practices	4
Group schema therapy for personality disorders: Systematic review, research agenda and treatment implications	4
Correction	4
Detecting defense mechanisms from Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) transcripts using machine learning	4
Mapping the growth of the CORE system tools in psychotherapy research from 1998 to 2021: Learning from historical evidence	4
Development and validation of countertransference feeling and behavior awareness measures in an Italian and American clinician sample	4
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	4
Empirical examination of long-term and intensive psychodynamic psychotherapy for severely disturbed patients	4
Predicting resistance management skill from psychotherapy experience, intellectual humility and emotion regulation	4
“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	4
Therapist responsiveness in the blank landscape of depression: A qualitative study among psychotherapists	4
Vindicating pollyanna? An experimental test of cognitive restructuring and positive thinking interventions	4
Emotion cascade: Harnessing emotional sequences to enhance chair work interventions and reduce self-criticism	4
What makes inpatient treatment for PTSD effective? Investigating daily therapy process factors	4
What if we wait? Using synthetic waiting lists to estimate treatment effects in routine outcome data	4
Some directions for research and theory on countertransference	4
The person of the therapist: therapists’ personal characteristics as predictors of alliance and treatment outcomes	4
Exploring alliance ruptures through the lenses of therapeutic distance	4
Assessing the quality of digital patient-therapist communication: the development and validation of a text-based facilitative interpersonal skills task	4