Objective Client experience of psychotherapy is an important resource for our understanding
of psychotherapy and deserves relevant attention in psychotherapy research. Emotion …

AimsPsychiatric treatments have specific and non-specific components. The latter has been
addressed in an extensive literature on the placebo-effect in pharmacology and on common …

Abstract The World Health Organization has underlined the significance of expediting the
preventive measures for crime against women and children to attain the United Nations …

Objective The present paper focuses on therapist responsiveness during the initial therapy
session with clients with borderline personality disorder (BPD), aiming to analyze therapist …

With the rapid development of deep learning, training Big Models (BMs) for multiple
downstream tasks becomes a popular paradigm. Researchers have achieved various …

A large body of research identifies therapist expressed empathy as one of the most
important predictors of psychotherapy outcome. Deliberate practice (DP) is an effective …

The current study explored how applied sport psychology practitioners adopting client-led
stances described two of their athlete interactions. Applied sport psychology practitioners (8 …

Autistic adults are at high risk for co‐occurring mental health problems and need access to
effective and appropriate mental health treatment. However, the relative effectiveness or …

Empathy is one of the most consistent outcome predictors in contemporary psychotherapy
research. The function of empathy is particularly important for the development of a positive …

Several decades of research have examined the change processes (what happens during
therapy sessions that might be associated with treatment outcome) and change mechanisms …