OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Psychology and Psychotherapy-Theory Research and Practice is 1. 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
Mother and clinician experiences of a trial of a video feedback parent–infant intervention for mothers experiencing difficulties consistent with ‘personality disorder’: A qualitative interview study	27
The shaping of moral injury among UK military veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq	26
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Editorial acknowledgement	25
Adult stakeholders' perspectives on supporting or undermining the mental health of sexual and gender minoritised adolescents	22
Self‐compassion and complete perinatal mental health in women at high risk for postpartum depression: The mediating role of emotion regulation difficulties	22
Findings from a randomized controlled trial of Metacognitive Reflection and Insight Therapy for people with schizophrenia: Effects on metacognition and symptoms	18
Temporal relationships between changes in depression and suicidal ideation: A mediation analysis in a randomized double‐blinded clinical trial	18
“What I share is not the same as therapy”: Psychologist experiences of Instagram use as a mental health influencer	18
Issue Information	17
Mindful parenting and child behaviour problems: A chain mediating role of parental and child communicating performance	16
Exposed, scaffolded and connected – Foster carers' experiences of dyadic developmental psychotherapy: An interpretative phenomenological analysis	15
How does attachment style affect psychosis? A systematic review of causal mechanisms and guide to future inquiry	13
Caring for a friend or family member who has experienced suicidal behaviour: A systematic review and qualitative synthesis	13
Barriers and enablers for young people, parents and therapists undertaking behavioural activation for depression: A qualitative evaluation within a randomised controlled trial	13
The emotional impact of self‐criticism on self‐reflection and rumination	13
Functional neurological disorder: A qualitative study exploring individuals' experiences of psychological services	12
The effect of trauma‐focused therapy on voice‐hearing: An experience sampling study	12
“All the horrible emotions have passed, I still remained, and I was safe”: A qualitative study of Lesbian and Gay people's lived experience of completing a full Dialectical Behaviour Therapy programme	12
A qualitative exploration of change processes relevant to compassion‐focused therapy that occurs when people view both soothing and non‐soothing images	12
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‘It’s like having a core belief that’s able to speak back to you’: Therapist accounts of dialoguing with auditory hallucinations	9
The service user experience of SlowMo therapy: A co‐produced thematic analysis of service users’ subjective experience	9
Emotion self‐stigma as a unique predictor of help‐seeking intentions: A comparative analysis of early adolescents and young adults	9
What about the children? Adult mental health practitioners' experiences and views of family‐focused practice in Early Intervention Services	9

Self‐ but not other‐mentalizing moderates the association between BPD symptoms and somatic complaints in community‐dwelling adolescents	8
Issue Information	8
Emotion processes in voice‐hearers: Understanding differences in emotional reactivity, emotion regulation and alexithymia	8
‘I'm ruined’: Young people's and their mothers' experiences of living with, and receiving a diagnosis of, borderline personality disorder: An interpretative phenomenological analysis	8
Attachment as a predictor of dropout in mentalization‐based treatment	8
Cognitive behavioural therapy for psychosis: The end of the line or time for a new approach?	8
Pathways from trauma to unusual perceptual experiences: Modelling the roles of insecure attachment, negative affect, emotion regulation and dissociation	8
What predicts psychosocial functioning in borderline personality disorder? Investigating the association with reflective functioning	8
Early shaming experiences and psychological distress: The role of experiential avoidance and self‐compassion	7
The role of parental mentalizing on the link between parental depression and child emotion regulation	7
Self‐forgiveness, self‐compassion and psychological health: A qualitative exploration of change during compassion focused therapy groups	7
Investigating the relationship between negative symptoms and metacognitive functioning in psychosis: An individual participant data meta‐analysis	7
Commentary: What young people want from psychotherapy	7
Defining compassion: A Delphi study of compassion therapists’ experiences when introducing patients to the term ‘compassion’	7
Acceptance and commitment therapy for psychosis: Current status, lingering questions and future directions	7
“It is not all glowing and kale smoothies”: An exploration of mental health difficulties during pregnancy through women's voices	7
Establishing an optimal working relationship with patients with an antisocial personality disorder. Aspects and processes in the therapeutic alliance	7
Poverty, ACEs and stigmatised places: The application of psychology to the challenges of disadvantage	6
Secure attachment imagery facilitates help‐seeking and help‐acceptance in psychosis	6
A qualitative investigation into care‐leavers' experiences of accessing mental health support	6
Emotion dysregulation and eating disorder outcome: Prediction, change and contribution of self‐image	6
Psychometric evaluation of the German version of the Brief Reflective Functioning Interview	6
Issue Information	6
Are all reasons for living made equally? Reasons for living and dysfunctional attitudes in psychotic disorders and bipolar I	6
The interpersonal processes of non‐suicidal self‐injury: A systematic review and meta‐synthesis	6
From core schemas about the self and others to voice phenomenology: Anxiety and depression affect voice hearers differently	6
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A family perspective on parental psychosis: An interpretative phenomenological analysis study	5
“Figuring out how to be normal”: Exploring how young people and parents make sense of voice‐hearing in the family context	5
Exploring the impact on primary care mental health practitioners of the death of a patient by suicide: An IPA study	5
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Issue Information	5
Special issue: State of the art in CBT and third‐wave therapies for psychosis	5
“They may be confronting but they are good questions to be asking” young people's experiences of completing a trauma and PTSD screening tool in an early psychosis program	5
Mindfulness for psychosis: Current evidence, unanswered questions and future directions	5
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The experience of cognitive behavioural therapy in depressed adolescents who are fatigued	4
Longitudinal outcomes of a therapist‐supported digital mental health intervention for depression and anxiety symptoms: A retrospective cohort study	4
Longitudinal assessments of therapeutic alliance predict work performance in vocational rehabilitation for persons with schizophrenia	4
Understanding the illness representations of young people with anxiety and depression: A qualitative study	4
Effectiveness of cognitive behavioural‐based interventions for adults with attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder extends beyond core symptoms: A meta‐analysis of randomized controlled trials	4
‘The last thing you feel is the self‐disgust’. The role of self‐directed disgust in men who have attempted suicide: A grounded theory study	4
How do people with a history of sexual abuse experience talking therapies for sexual trauma? A systematic review of qualitative findings	4
Expression of Concern: Eysenck, H. J. (1988). Personality, stress and cancer: Prediction and prophylaxis. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 61(1), 57–75. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044‐834	4
Exploring experiences of moral injury and distress among health care workers during the Covid‐19 pandemic	4
Do emotion regulation strategies mediate the attachment–paranoia association? An experimental study of repeated attachment imagery priming and stress buffering	4
A dyadic session‐by‐session assessment of therapeutic alliance and short‐term outcome among clients with schizophrenia in comparison with clients with emotional disorders	4
Family involvement in psychotherapy for depression in children and adolescents: Systematic review and meta‐analysis	4
Empathy, compassion, and theory of mind in obsessive‐compulsive disorder	4
Depth of experiencing and therapeutic alliance: What predicts outcome for whom in emotion‐focused therapy for trauma?	3

Sensitivity to punishment and emotional eating: The mediating role of shame and rumination	3
Veterans' experiences of somatic experiencing and prolonged exposure therapies for post‐traumatic stress disorder: A qualitative analysis	3
Editorial: An unsafe article on the prediction and prevention of cancer published in British Journal of Medical Psychology	3
Issue Information	3
Are depressed patients’ coping strategies associated with psychotherapy treatment outcomes?	3
Supporting conscious competency: Validation of the Generic Supervision Assessment Tool (GSAT)	3
Staff views about involving service users in team formulation	3
Assessing the delivering of iMAgery‐focused therapy for PSychosis (iMAPS) via telehealth	3
The problem with picking: Permittance, escape and shame in problematic skin picking	3
Clients' experiences of psychotherapeutic interventions addressing trauma	3
A qualitative study exploring children and young people's experiences of cognitive therapy for PTSD delivered within the context of a randomised controlled trial	3
A qualitative, multi‐perspective study on causal beliefs about adolescent depression	3
Issue Information	3
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Using eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) with autistic individuals: A qualitative interview study with EMDR therapists	3
Reductions in experiential avoidance explain changes in anxiety, depression and well‐being after a mindfulness and self‐compassion (MSC) training	3
Hoping and waiting for rescue: Concepts, scale development and process	3
The phenomenology of mental imagery in people with intellectual disabilities	3
Exploring the implementation of a novel, transdiagnostic, hybrid ecological momentary intervention for improving resilience in youth (EMIcompass): A process evaluation in the realist framew	3
Black people's experiences of being asked about adverse childhood experiences in the UK: A qualitative study	3
Types and mechanisms of idiographic change during guided self‐help for anxiety	3
A pre and post evaluation of the communication and interaction training programme for professionals in dementia care	3
Issue Information	3
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How social rejection expectations and depressive symptoms bi‐directionally predict each other – A cross‐lagged panel analysis	2
Issue Information	2
Outcomes for Adaptive Mentalization Based Integrative Treatment informed care for adolescents using a deployment‐based approach	2
Experiences of dialectical behaviour therapy for adolescents: A qualitative analysis	2
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Obsessional intrusive thoughts in children: An interview based study	2
Issue Information	2
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Exploring the experiences and responses of siblings living with a brother or sister with obsessive compulsive disorder	2
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ECTAS Response to ‘A second independent audit of electroconvulsive therapy in England, 2019: Usage, demographics, consent, and, adherence to guidelines and legislation’	2
What does it mean to age well with bipolar disorder? A qualitative study using photo elicitation	2
The effect of the alliance on social recovery outcomes and usage in a moderated online social therapy for first‐episode psychosis	2
Cross‐cultural differences in depression between White British and South Asians: Causal attributions, stigma by association, discriminatory potential	2
“If there is a tension about something, I can solve it”: A qualitative investigation of change processes in a trial of brief problem‐solving interventions for common adolescent mental health problems	2
Mindfulness for voices: An experimental analogue study of the effect of manipulating response style to simulated voices in a non‐clinical population	2
Developing a psychosocial competency framework for adult and older adult acute mental health inpatient care	2
Issue Information	2
Case formulation—A vehicle for change? Exploring the impact of cognitive behavioural therapy formulation in first episode psychosis: A reflexive thematic analysis	1
Psychosis and help‐seeking behaviour–A systematic review of the literature	1
Fear of COVID‐19, stress and depression: A meta‐analytic test of the mediating role of anxiety	1
“My entire life has moulded the person that I am”: Narrations of non‐suicidal self‐injury and complex trauma in individuals with complex posttraumatic stress experiences	1
Therapists' perspectives on the Maudsley model anorexia nervosa treatment for adolescents and young adults (MANTRa): A qualitative interview study	1
A life more ordinary: A peer research method qualitative study of the Feeling Safe Programme for persecutory delusions	1
A novel smartphone‐based intervention targeting sleep difficulties in individuals experiencing psychosis: A feasibility and acceptability evaluation	1
How does attachment imagery for paranoia work? Cognitive fusion and beliefs about self and others mediate the impact on paranoia and anxiety	1
Associations between psychological inflexibility processes, pre‐sleep arousal and sleep quality	1
Issue Information	1
The effectiveness of psychological interventions for anxiety in the perinatal period: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	1
‘Lemons to lemonade’: Identity integration in researchers with lived experience of psychosis	1
Effectiveness of cognitive analytic therapy for bipolar affective disorder: A co‐produced single subject cumulative treatment design with extended follow‐up (A¹/B/A²/C‐FU)	1
Corrigendum	1
Temporal pathways from attachment insecurity to paranoia in a heterogeneous clinical sample: An experience sampling study	1
Does disorganised attachment lead to auditory hallucinations via dissociation? An experimental study with an analogue sample	1
Understanding treatment non‐responders: A qualitative study of depressed adolescents' experiences of ‘unsuccessful’ psychotherapy	1
Issue Information	1
What is helpful and unhelpful when people try to withdraw from antipsychotics: An international survey	1
The metacognitive model of rumination and depression in postpartum women	1
Childhood maltreatment, dissociation and borderline personality disorder: Preliminary data on the mediational role of mentalizing in complex post‐traumatic stress disorder	1
Young people's experiences of setting and monitoring goals in school‐based counselling: A thematic analysis	1
Pathways from childhood trauma to aberrant salience: A structural equation approach to mentalization model	1
The assessment of pathways towards suicide in adolescent patients: A PDM‐2‐oriented approach	1
Refugees' and asylum seekers' experiences of individual psychological therapy: A qualitative meta‐synthesis	1
Changes in positive and negative voice content in cognitive‐behavioural therapy for distressing voices	1
Engagement, clinical outcomes and therapeutic process in online mindfulness for psychosis groups delivered in routine care	1
Factors differentiating panic disorder with and without comorbid symptoms of depression	1