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Validation of the German version of the Comparative Psychotherapy Process Scale. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Klaus Michael Reininger,Hannah Marie Biel,David Algner-Herzmann,Timo Hennig,Sarah Liebherz,Christoph Kröger,Steffen Moritz,Peer Briken,Bernd Löwe
The Comparative Psychotherapy Process Scale (CPPS) is a 20-item scale which aims to capture technical features distinguishing cognitive behavioral (CBT) from psychodynamic (PD) psychotherapy (and vice versa) in two corresponding subscales (CBT and PD Subscale). Our objective was to validate a German self-report version of the CPPS regarding a previous psychotherapy session in a psychotherapist- and
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Repairing alliance ruptures in psychodynamic psychotherapy with young people: The development of a rational-empirical model to support youth therapists. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Antonella Cirasola,Nick Midgley,J Christopher Muran,Catherine F Eubanks,Elaine Budreck Hunter,Peter Fonagy
Alliance ruptures in youth psychotherapy can have a significant impact on treatment outcomes. However, there is currently limited guidance on how to effectively repair these ruptures with young people. This study aims to address this gap specifically in the context of psychodynamic psychotherapy with adolescents. The objectives of the study are (a) to understand the therapeutic interventions and attitudes
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Alexithymia and treatment response for prolonged exposure therapy: An evaluation of outcomes and mechanisms. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Andrea Putica,Nicholas T Van Dam,Kim L Felmingham,Meaghan L O'Donnell
Alexithymia is the inability to identify and recognize emotions. The present study examined the impact of alexithymia on prolonged exposure (PE) therapy. Participants (n = 68) with PTSD underwent 10 PE sessions. Alexithymia was assessed via the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) and the emotional clarity and awareness subscales of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale. Treatment outcomes were
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A qualitative meta-analysis exploring client-reported outcomes of couple therapy. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Ronan O'Malley,Rebecca Glenny,Simone Poppleton,Ladislav Timulak
The quantitative reviews of the outcome research on couple therapy show that this type of therapy can produce positive outcomes for couples and improve relationship satisfaction. There is now also a number of qualitative studies in which clients report in their own words on the outcomes of couple therapy. This study aimed to meta-analyze the client-reported outcomes of couple therapy generated in the
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The effects of intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy on depressive symptoms, negative affect, and emotional repression in single treatment-resistant depression: A randomized controlled trial. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Rasoul Heshmati,Frederik J Wienicke,Ellen Driessen
Intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP) is theorized to reduce negative affect by challenging patients' defense mechanisms so that they can experience and work through attachment-trauma-related emotions. While ISTDP has been shown to decrease depressive symptoms in single treatment-resistant depression (TRD), it has not been established whether negative affect and emotional repression are
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Psychotherapist variables that may lead to treatment failure or termination-A qualitative analysis of patients' perspectives. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Sven Alfonsson,Simon Fagernäs,Gabriella Sjöstrand,Mårten J Tyrberg
A substantial number of patients do not improve from psychotherapy, some even deteriorate, and some terminate treatment prematurely. Identifying therapist variables that may lead to treatment failures from patients' perspectives can inform how psychotherapists can increase effectiveness. Using a semistructured protocol, we interviewed 24 patients who had experienced unsatisfying individual face-to-face
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Words count in psychotherapy: Differentiating language characteristics of cognitive behavioral therapy and focal psychodynamic therapy for anorexia nervosa. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Simon Palmer,Timo Brockmeyer,Stephan Zipfel,Beate Wild,Gaby Resmark,Martin Teufel,Katrin Giel,Martina de Zwaan,Andreas Dinkel,Stephan Herpertz,Markus Burgmer,Bernd Löwe,Sefik Tagay,Eva Rothermund,Almut Zeeck,Wolfgang Herzog,Hans-Christoph Friederich
It is generally assumed that psychodynamic therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) differ in terms of applied techniques and processes. To date, however, little is known about whether and how such differences can actually be observed at a basic linguistic level and in what the two treatment approaches differ most strongly (i.e., how psychodynamic and CBT therapists differ in what they actually
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Prospective psychotherapists' bias and accuracy in assessing their own facilitative interpersonal skills. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Merle Longley,Denise Kästner,Anne Daubmann,Constance Hirschmeier,Bernhard Strauß,Antje Gumz
We aimed to investigate prospective psychotherapists' bias in assessing their own facilitative interpersonal skills (FIS) and predictors of high self-assessments. In this cross-sectional observational study, we examined 132 psychology students and trainee psychotherapists. Therapists' demographic variables and self-concepts were assessed through self-report questionnaires, and their therapeutic skills
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Using machine learning algorithms to predict the effects of change processes in psychotherapy: Toward process-level treatment personalization. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Juan Martín Gómez Penedo,Julian Rubel,Manuel Meglio,Leo Bornhauser,Tobias Krieger,Anna Babl,Roberto Muiños,Andrés Roussos,Jaime Delgadillo,Christoph Flückiger,Thomas Berger,Wolfgang Lutz,Martin Grosse Holtforth
This study aimed to develop and test algorithms to determine the individual relevance of two psychotherapeutic change processes (i.e., mastery and clarification) for outcome prediction. We measured process and outcome variables in a naturalistic outpatient sample treated with an integrative treatment for a variety of diagnoses (n = 608) during the first 10 sessions. We estimated individual within-patient
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Meaning reconstruction 70 years later: Processing older adults' unfinished business in a drama therapy group. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Shoshi Keisari,Dani Yaniv,Anat Gesser-Edelsburg,Yuval Palgi,Robert A Neimeyer
Unfinished business (UB), when individuals appraise their relationship with others or themselves as incomplete or unresolved, entails difficult emotions such as regret, remorse, and guilt. UB is often associated with bereavement and is considered to be a predictor of complicated grief. Here we report two case studies describing the processing of the sudden death of a significant other in the context
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I see you as recognizing me; therefore, I trust you: Operationalizing epistemic trust in psychotherapy. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Shimrit Fisher,Peter Fonagy,Hadas Wiseman,Sigal Zilcha-Mano
Epistemic trust (ET) is one's ability to trust others and relies on the information they convey as being relevant and generalizable. This concept has received considerable theoretical and clinical attention, suggesting it is a promising factor in effective psychotherapy, possibly consisting of three elements: sharing, we-mode, and learning. However, for it to be used in clinical practice and research
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Retraction of Cuttler et al. (2019). Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2023-09-01
Reports the retraction of "Productive silence is golden: Predicting changes in client collaboration from process during silence and client attachment style in psychodynamic psychotherapy" by Ethan Cuttler, Clara E. Hill, Shakeena King and Dennis M. Kivlighan Jr. (Psychotherapy, 2019[Dec], Vol 56[4], 568-576) https://doi .org/10.1037/pst0000260. This retraction is at the request of coauthors Hill and
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Correction to Ryum et al. (2023). Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2023-09-01
Reports an error in "Integrating between-session homework in psychotherapy: A systematic review of immediate in-session and intermediate outcomes" by Truls Ryum, Mia Bennion and Nikolaos Kazantzis (Psychotherapy, Advanced Online Publication, Apr 27, 2023, np). In the article (https://doi.org/10.1037/ pst0000488), the number of included studies in Figure 2 omitted two studies that were added to the
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Retraction of Morales et al. (2018). Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2023-09-01
Reports the retraction of "Therapist effects due to client racial/ethnic status when examining linear growth for client- and therapist-rated working alliance and real relationship" by Katherine Morales, Brian TaeHyuk Keum, Dennis M. Kivlighan Jr., Clara E. Hill and Charles J. Gelso (Psychotherapy, 2018[Mar], Vol 55[1], 9-19) https://doi.org/10.1037/pst0000135. This retraction is at the request of coauthors
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Psychotherapy skills and methods: Introduction to the special issue. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Clara E Hill,John C Norcross
This article introduces the special issue of Psychotherapy on evidence-based skills and methods and concomitantly, outlines the purposes and processes of the Interorganizational Task Force that guided the work. We provide the rationale for reviewing psychotherapy skills and methods, define and contrast skills and methods with other components of psychotherapy, describe how to assess skills, methods
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Asian international psychotherapist's experiences of client's microaggression in therapy. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Kun Wang,Christopher Anders,Yu Chak Sunny Ho,Yunkyoung Loh Garrison,D Martin Kivlighan
Much of the multicultural counseling literature focuses on how White or U.S.-born therapists can work effectively with clients of color. However, with the increasing number of racial minority and international therapists and trainees, there is a need to expand the multicultural counseling literature to acknowledge and center the experiences of therapists and trainees of color, particularly the experiences
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Are changes in joviality associated with cognitive behavioral treatment outcomes? Examining an emerging treatment target. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Daniella Spencer-Laitt,Laura J Long,Lauren S Woodard,Brittany A Jaso,Nicole D Cardona,Saige R Fong,Todd J Farchione
The present study expands on the growing body of research on the effects of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) on positive affect. More specifically, we explore how CBT may promote increases in the Joviality subscale of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule-Expanded Form (PANAS-X), a measure of self-rated affect that captures positive emotions, including joy and excitement, and how change in joviality
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Experiential training of mental health graduate students in emotional processing skills: A randomized, controlled trial. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Jolin B Yamin,Ciara N Cannoy,Katey M Gibbins,Shoshana Krohner,Lisa J Rapport,Christopher J Trentacosta,Lori Lackman Zeman,Mark A Lumley
Emotional processing interventions for trauma and psychological conflicts are underutilized. Lack of adequate training in emotional processing techniques and therapists' lack of confidence in utilizing such interventions are barriers to implementation. We developed and tested an experiential training to improve trainees' performance in a set of transtheoretical emotional processing skills: eliciting
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The development of a comprehensive coding system for evaluating insight based on a clinical interview: The SUIP-I coding system. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Lirit Yaffe-Herbst,Maya Joffe,Galit Peysachov,Aviv Nof,Mary Beth Connolly Gibbons,Paul Crits-Christoph,Sigal Zilcha-Mano
Gaining insight is considered a cornerstone of psychodynamic psychotherapy. Existing tools used to measure insight mainly include patients' self-report questionnaires and external coding of therapy sessions. To expand on the available tools, the present study developed a comprehensive coding system for the Self-Understanding of Interpersonal Patterns Scales-Interview (SUIP-I; Gibbons & Crits-Christoph
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Psychologists conducting psychotherapy in 2022: Contemporary practices and historical patterns of the Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2023-05-18 John C Norcross,Maria N Rocha,Ashley A Chrysler
This study updated and extended investigations from 1981, 1991, 2001, and 2012 on the contemporary psychotherapy practices and historical patterns of United States psychologists in the American Psychological Association Division of Psychotherapy/Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy. In 2022, 475 psychologists (48% response) completed an online questionnaire regarding their sociodemographic
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Chairwork in individual psychotherapy: Meta-analyses of intervention effects. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Antonio Pascual-Leone,Tabarak Baher
The present study examines (a) the unique effects of chairwork on emotional process and intervention outcomes across treatments in the context of individual psychotherapy and (b) how these effects compare to other treatment interventions. Based on the appropriateness of the data available, meta-analyses with estimated effect sizes and narrative syntheses were conducted for psychotherapy process as
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Integrating between-session homework in psychotherapy: A systematic review of immediate in-session and intermediate outcomes. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Truls Ryum,Mia Bennion,Nikolaos Kazantzis
[Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 60(3) of Psychotherapy (see record 2023-99100-002). In the article (https://doi.org/10.1037/ pst0000488), the number of included studies in Figure 2 omitted two studies that were added to the literature synthesis. Therefore, the following has been added to the Reports excluded box in Figure 2: A further two studies were added to the
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Working with dreams and nightmares: A review of the research evidence. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Patricia T Spangler,Wonjin Sim
In this article, we describe methods for working with dreams and nightmares in individual psychotherapy, provide clinical examples, and review research evidence of immediate and distal outcomes of each method. An original meta-analysis of eight studies using the cognitive-experiential dream model with 514 clients showed moderate effect sizes for session depth and insight gains. In the nightmare treatment
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Consensus on the perceived presence of transtheoretical principles of change in routine psychotherapy practice: A survey of clinicians and researchers. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Conal Twomey,Gary O'Reilly,Marvin R Goldfried
Goldfried (1982) hypothesized that there are five transtheoretical principles of change that guide routine psychotherapy practice. This survey investigated if there is consensus on the perceived presence of these principles in the approaches of a professionally diverse pool of psychotherapy clinicians and researchers. One thousand nine hundred ninety-eight participants, aged 21-85 years (M = 50.4 years
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Skills and methods that work in psychotherapy: Observations and conclusions from the special issue. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2023-04-10 Clara E Hill,John C Norcross
We draw recommendations and conclusions from the articles presented in this special issue and the companion special section in Psychotherapy Research on evidence-based therapist skills and methods. For distal (end-of-treatment) outcome, 10 skills/methods were judged to be demonstrably effective (affirmation/validation, paradoxical interventions, homework, routine outcome monitoring, strength-based
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Silences in psychotherapy: An integrative meta-analytic research review. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Heidi M Levitt,Zenobia Morrill
There is research evidence, from both qualitative and quantitative studies, that silences in psychotherapy have established associations with good and poor outcomes that include and extend beyond symptom measures to processes such as insight, symbolization, and disengagement. Research also has demonstrated that therapists attend to clients' silences, seeking to comprehend the processes therein and
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A systematic review of the association between interpretations and immediate, intermediate, and distal outcomes. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Sigal Zilcha-Mano,Hadar Fisher,Tohar Dolev-Amit,John R Keefe,Jacques P Barber
Interpretations are a hallmark of psychodynamic treatment and a method used in other theoretical orientations as well. Therapists use interpretations to increase patients' insight concerning unconscious and preconscious elements in their lives, with the ultimate aim to reduce mental pain and suffering and improve mental health. This systematic review focuses on the association between the therapists'
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Group psychotherapy for chronic pain: A meta-analysis. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Cameron Alldredge,Gary Burlingame,Jenny Rosendahl
Chronic pain is common among adults and frequently interferes with regular functioning while reducing quality of life. Though pharmacological approaches are used most frequently to treat pain-related issues, the side effects often lead to other problems. Group therapy has been used and studied for decades in treating pain although its general efficacy in this is not clear. We conducted a meta-analysis
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The sum of competing parts: Religious and sexual identity disparities in therapist effectiveness. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Laurice Cabrera,Joanna M Drinane,Jake Van Epps,Lauren Weitzman
The discussion of the influence of culture in psychotherapy is expanding to honor and incorporate the ways identities intersect within complex social systems. Some clients present for therapy with two or more identities that are in conflict, whereby the values or needs associated with different parts of the self are at odds. The resulting tension can be a significant driver of distress. This study
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A systematic research review of collaborative assessment methods. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Filippo Aschieri,Arnold A P van Emmerik,Carlijn J M Wibbelink,Jan H Kamphuis
Collaborative assessment methods (CAMs) involve working with clients during all phases of the assessment process, from goal definition to interpretation of the testing results to the recommendations and conclusions. In this article, we define CAMs, provide clinical examples, and then meta-analyze the published literature to assess their effectiveness on distal treatment outcomes. Our meta-analytic
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Examining between- and within-person effects of the self-stigma of seeking psychological help on the therapeutic working alliance: The moderating role of psychological distress. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Andrew J Seidman,David L Vogel,Daniel G Lannin
The self-stigma (i.e., shame) associated with psychotherapy is a prominent barrier to seeking psychological help, but less is known about its effects after treatment begins. Evidence suggests that self-stigma may interfere with the formation of the therapeutic alliance, but no studies have examined this throughout the course of psychotherapy. Self-stigma's erosion of the alliance may be most pronounced
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Psychotherapist advice, suggestions, recommendations: A research review. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Clara E Hill,Sarah Knox,Changming Duan
Psychotherapists provide at least some advice, suggestions, and recommendations (ASR) in most treatment approaches. We define ASR, offer clinical examples, and review the research evidence for the immediate in-session, immediate delayed, and intermediate effects of ASR, as well as for the moderators of these effects in individual psychotherapy. In seven studies with 327 clients and 131 therapists,
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Research review of psychotherapists' use of metaphors. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Linda M McMullen,Dennis Tay
Therapists' use of metaphor in psychotherapy is ubiquitous. However, compared to theoretical and clinical claims about the potential effectiveness of using metaphor, research investigations pose challenges and remain relatively sparse. We provide examples of metaphors in sessions and then systematically review the empirical literature. This research suggests that collaborative coelaboration of metaphors
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Cognitive restructuring and psychotherapy outcome: A meta-analytic review. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Iony D Ezawa,Steven D Hollon
Cognitive restructuring (CR) is one method that is hypothesized to play a role in the process of change across many psychotherapies and for a variety of clinical presentations. In this article, we define and illustrate CR. We then present a meta-analysis of four studies (including a total of 353 clients) examining the effect of CR measured within session on psychotherapy outcomes. The overall CR-outcome
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A meta-analysis of the effects of role induction in psychotherapy. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Joshua K Swift,Elizabeth A Penix,Ailun Li
Role induction is a pantheoretical method that can be used in the initial phase of psychotherapy to prepare patients for treatment. The purpose of this meta-analysis was to examine the effects of role induction on treatment dropout, and immediate, mid-, and posttreatment outcomes for adult individual psychotherapy patients. A total of 17 studies were identified that met all inclusion criteria. Data
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Measurement-based care professional practice guideline: Don't forget the therapists! Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Matteo Bugatti,Zachary Richardson,Wendy Rasmussen,Douglas Newton,Jesse Owen
Boswell et al. (2022) professional practice guideline builds an excellent, evidence-driven argument in favor of the routine implementation of measurement-based care (MBC). Nonetheless, as learned from the attempted implementation of evidence-based psychotherapies, presenting empirical evidence does not affect therapist behavior. As such, we argue for an actionable and practical professional practice
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Measurement-based care professional practice guideline: Fine, but guidelines do not make good therapy. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Bruce E Wampold,Scott D Miller
Boswell et al. (2022) persuasively make the case for and propose professional practice guidelines (PPG) for measurement-based care (MBC). Although the evidence for MBC is robust, implementing MBC effectively in practice requires skills and processes not discussed in the PPG. We discuss five problems with the PPG for MBC: The "what's in a name?" problem, lack of actionable actions problem, the stopwatch
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Introduction to special section: Addressing racism, anti-blackness, and racial trauma in psychotherapy. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Rayna D Markin,Martin Kivlighan,Andrés E Pérez-Rojas,Rosemary Phelps
This article introduces the special section on "Addressing Racism, Anti-Blackness, and Racial Trauma in Psychotherapy." The special section was organized to highlight research and clinical practices on addressing racism, anti-Blackness, and racial trauma in psychotherapy. We provide an overview of the special section with attention to future research to continue to advance practice and scholarship
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Effectiveness of telemental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: A propensity score noninferiority analysis of outcomes. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Kiran Gurm,Bruce E Wampold,Carley Piatt,Robert Jagodzinski,Derek D Caperton,Robbie Babins-Wagner
The COVID-19 pandemic forced governments to implement a range of public health measures that disrupted the personal and professional lives of many, including an abrupt adoption of telemental health services. Using data from a nonprofit counseling practice, we tested whether telemental health services delivered during the pandemic were inferior to face-to-face services delivered prior to the pandemic
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The use of questions in psychotherapy: A review of research on immediate outcomes. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Elizabeth Nutt Williams
This article defines and illustrates therapist questions in individual psychotherapy and then reviews the naturalistic, empirical research on their effectiveness. The research on immediate impacts of questions in psychotherapy has been mixed. The available research indicates that positive impacts, particularly of open questions, include increased client emotional expressiveness and affective exploration
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V-episodes in the alliance: A single-case application of multiple methods to identify rupture repair. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Lauren M Lipner,Di Liu,Sophie Cassell,Elaine Hunter,Catherine F Eubanks,J Christopher Muran
The therapeutic alliance has been consistently found to be a robust predictor of therapeutic outcome across various modalities of psychotherapy. Alliance ruptures are thought to occur commonly within each therapeutic dyad and, if left unresolved, are associated with premature termination and worsened psychotherapy outcome. Research efforts have identified V-shaped shifts in the alliance, characterized
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Efficacy of a mindfulness and compassion-based intervention in psychotherapists and their patients: Empathy, symptomatology, and mechanisms of change in a randomized controlled trial. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Elena Garrote-Caparrós,Óscar Lecuona,Miguel Bellosta-Batalla,Luis Moya-Albiol,Ausiàs Cebolla
In recent years, mindfulness and compassion-based interventions (MCBI) have been found to beneficially influence the acquisition of essential skills in psychotherapy and are a promising way to improve relationships with patients. In this regard, new studies are needed to evaluate the effects of MCBI on psychotherapists and their patients and to analyze the influence of these effects on the processes
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Correction to Jackson et al. (2022). Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2022-12-01
Reports an error in "A pilot test of a treatment to address intersectional stigma, mental health, and HIV risk among gay and bisexual men of color" by Skyler D. Jackson, Krystn R. Wagner, Mike Yepes, Tyler D. Harvey, Jackson Higginbottom and John E. Pachankis (Psychotherapy, 2022[Mar], Vol 59[1], 96-112). In the article, text changes have been made to point (c) in the abstract and in the first and
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A typology for the interpersonal affective focus in dynamic interpersonal therapy based on a contemporary interpersonal approach. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2022-11-10 Tara McFarquhar,Patrick Luyten,Peter Fonagy
Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT) is a brief, time-limited psychodynamic individual therapy in which depressive and anxious symptoms are understood as responses to interpersonal difficulties. Problematic interpersonal representations of the self and others are conceptualized in DIT as the interpersonal affective focus (IPAF), a predominant and recurring interpersonal pattern that is connected to
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Training community-based psychotherapists to maintain a therapeutic alliance: A psychotherapy practice research network study. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2022-11-10 Giorgio A Tasca,Paula Ravitz,Jonathan Hunter,Livia Chyurlia,Stephanie Baker,Louise Balfour,Nancy Mcquaid,Clare Pain,Angelo Compare,Agostino Brugnera,Molyn Leszcz
The goal of this study was to test the efficacy of training community-based psychotherapists who were part of a practice research network to be more attuned to their patients' experiences of the therapeutic relationship. We were particularly interested in the effect of therapist training on the congruence of alliance ratings with their patients. Forty psychotherapists who treated 117 patients were
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The alliance with young people: Where have we been, where are we going? Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2022-11-10 Antonella Cirasola,Nick Midgley
The therapeutic alliance is considered an important mechanism of change in youth psychotherapy. Accordingly, it has become one of the most investigated psychotherapy variables. Yet, the theoretical and empirical literature on the alliance with young people is complex and has received criticism. This article aims to (a) critically review the existing knowledge on the alliance in youth psychotherapy
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A multimodal case study utilizing physiological synchrony as indicator of context in which motion synchrony is associated with the working alliance. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Shachaf Tal,Eran Bar-Kalifa,Johann Roland Kleinbub,Liat Leibovich,Keren Deres-Cohen,Sigal Zilcha-Mano
Interest in the association between patient and therapist's motion synchrony and the working alliance has been growing in recent years. This interest is part of a larger effort in psychotherapy research to study how the working alliance, being central to the therapeutic process, develops over the course of therapy. However, while previous studies suggest that such an association between motion synchrony
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Association of childhood maltreatment with adult body awareness and autonomic reactivity: The moderating effect of practicing body psychotherapy. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Biljana Jokić,Danka Purić,Herbert Grassmann,Christopher G Walling,Evan J Nix,Stephen W Porges,Jacek Kolacz
Research shows the disruptive effects of early maltreatment on the autonomic nervous system (ANS) functioning in adulthood. Psychotherapists not only tend to report higher rates of personal experience with early maltreatment, but also fewer mental problems and disturbances in adulthood, as compared to other professions. However, the role of the ANS in these processes has been understudied despite the
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You never know what you are going to get: Large-scale assessment of therapists' supportive counseling skill use. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Xinyao Zhang,Michael Tanana,Lauren Weitzman,Shrikanth Narayanan,David Atkins,Zac Imel
Supportive counseling skills like empathy and active listening are critical ingredients of all psychotherapies, but most research relies on client or therapist reports of the treatment process. This study utilized machine-learning models trained to evaluate counseling skills to evaluate supportive skill use in 3,917 session recordings. We analyzed overall skill use and variation in practice patterns
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Replicating patient-level moderators of CBT and IPT's comparative efficacy for depression. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2022-09-01 Alice E Coyne,Michael J Constantino,Kimberly A Ouimette,Averi N Gaines,Leslie R Atkinson,R Michael Bagby,Paula Ravitz,Carolina McBride
Although evidence-based psychotherapies, such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT), produce comparable average outcomes, it is plausible that some patients who possess one or more specific characteristics may respond better to one over the other. Addressing this what works best for whom question, researchers have tested the moderating influence of patient characteristics
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Centering and decentering client disclosures: A qualitative study of therapists' responses to clients' experiences of discrimination. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2022-09-01 Patty B Kuo,Halleh Hashtpari,Camara J Chea,Karen W Tao
Clients who are societally marginalized because of their identities may seek support from therapists to process experiences of discrimination and oppression. Therapist navigation of these cultural conversations is a crucial skill. However, there is limited research examining how therapists immediately respond to clients when they disclose experiences of discrimination. In this study, 66 participants
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Disaggregating between- and within-patient effects of ruptures and resolutions on the therapeutic alliance and symptom severity. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2022-09-01 Anna Babl,Thomas Berger,Juan Martín Gómez Penedo,Martin Grosse Holtforth,Franz Caspar,Catherine F Eubanks
The therapeutic alliance is considered a robust predictor of psychotherapy outcome. Ruptures and resolutions in the alliance have been the focus of recent alliance literature. Most previous studies investigated their between-patient effects. We used hierarchical linear models to disaggregate the between- and within-patient effects of ruptures on the alliance from patient- and therapist perspective
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"Psychological treatments for persistent depression: A systematic review and meta- analysis of quality of life and functioning outcomes:" Correction to McPherson and Senra (2022). Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2022-09-01
Reports an error in "Psychological treatments for persistent depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis of quality of life and functioning outcomes" by Susan McPherson and Hugo Senra (Psychotherapy, Advanced Online Publication, Jun 27, 2022, np). In the article, there were errors in the abstract. The confidence interval in the sentence Quality of life at follow-up: pooled g = 0.21 should appear
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Patients' experiences of being "ghosted" by their psychotherapists. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Barry A Farber,Emily Hubbard,Daisy Ort
Psychotherapist ghosting is a type of inappropriate, therapist-initiated termination of treatment in which the therapist ceases communication with their patient without prior notice. A total of 77 patients (M age = 34) who reported being ghosted by their therapist completed a web-based therapist ghosting survey (TGS) that assessed their perceptions of multiple aspects of this event. Results indicated
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Trauma-informed inpatient care for marginalized women. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Ellen R Gutowski,Koree S Badio,Nadine J Kaslow
Although optimal trauma-informed care in inpatient settings is relationally oriented, gender-sensitive, racially and culturally responsive treatment, this often is not the reality. Instead, inpatient settings frequently create experiences of retraumatization, which likely are associated with poor outcomes. This article extends the literature on trauma-informed care by drawing from existing models for
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Enhancing the evidence base for spiritually integrated psychotherapies: Progressing the paradigm of practice-based evidence. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2022-08-01 P Scott Richards,Michael Barkham
Spiritually integrated approaches to psychological therapies enable practitioners to be responsive to clients' religious and spiritual concerns and have been combined with most mainstream therapeutic approaches. As such, although evidence is required regarding their efficacy, with randomized controlled trials having a privileged status, a single research paradigm is unlikely to deliver both a robust
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"Where have you been in this world?" a qualitative study of clients' curiosity about their psychotherapists. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2022-07-25 Jazmín M González,Andrés E Pérez-Rojas,Megan E Darby,Ellen C Marks
Curiosity is widely seen as a basic human drive, important to the development of relationships as well as to the process of change in psychotherapy. Less attention, however, has been directed toward examining curiosity in the client-therapist relationship. In particular, we lack a comprehensive understanding of what occurs for clients when they become curious about their therapists. As a result, we
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The need for a measurement-based care professional practice guideline. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2022-06-30 James F Boswell,Kimberly A Hepner,Kathleen Lysell,Nan E Rothrock,Nick Bott,Amber W Childs,Susan Douglas,Nicole Owings-Fonner,C Vaile Wright,Kari A Stephens,David E Bard,Syed Aajmain,Bruce L Bobbitt
Professional practice guidelines (PPGs) are intended to promote a high level of professional practice and serve as an educational resource, providing pragmatic guidance in a clinical area for psychologists. Measurement-based care (MBC) is an evidence-based psychological practice with accumulating empirical support and alignment with patient-centered care. In connection with the American Psychological
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Therapist emotion and emotional change with clients: Effects on perceived empathy and session quality. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2022-06-30 Harold Chui,Xu Li,Sarah Luk
Therapists' emotion and therapist-client emotional congruence are associated with psychotherapy process and outcome. However, their presession emotional states are not consistently accounted for across studies, and the underlying mechanism is unclear. This study introduces the concepts of directional correspondence (DC), where therapists' and clients' emotions move in a similar direction from pre to
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Psychological treatments for persistent depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis of quality of life and functioning outcomes. Psychotherapy (IF 3.218) Pub Date : 2022-06-27 Susan McPherson,Hugo Senra
[Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 59(3) of Psychotherapy (see record 2022-94545-001). In the article, there were errors in the abstract. The confidence interval in the sentence Quality of life at follow-up: pooled g = 0.21 should appear as follows: 95% CI, 0.10-0.32. In the sentence The psychological interventions were associated with improvements in patients' functioning