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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Maladaptive defense mechanisms moderate treatment outcome in 6 months versus 12 months dialectical-behavior therapy for borderline personality disorder	106
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
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
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
Target validation in dialectical behavior therapy skills group: Emotion regulation, mindfulness, and distress tolerance as mediators of outcome	27
Self-efficacy, motivation, social support, and alliance as predictors of youth psychotherapy outcomes in usual care	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
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
“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
Predictors of homework engagement in group CBT for social anxiety: client beliefs about homework, its consequences, group cohesion, and working alliance	17
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
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
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
Vindicating pollyanna? An experimental test of cognitive restructuring and positive thinking interventions	15
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
The therapeutic effects of the therapists’ ability to pass their patients’ tests in psychotherapy	14
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
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
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Correction	12
Development of the Cultural Humility Scale—Short Form (CHS-SF)	12
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Cognitive behavioral therapy and emotion-focused therapy for depression in a routine care setting: A randomized controlled pilot trial	6
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
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
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