The alliance-outcome relationship has been consistently linked to positive treatment
outcomes irrespective of psychotherapy modality. However, beyond its general links to …

Outcome measurement in the field of psychotherapy has developed considerably in the last
decade. This review discusses key issues related to outcome measurement, modeling, and …

This conceptual paper describes the current state of mental health services, identifies critical
problems, and suggests how to solve them. I focus on the potential contributions of artificial …

For the past hundred years, mechanisms of change have been the black box of
psychotherapy. Thousands of studies failed to produce consistent findings, even concerning …

The chapter focuses on the empirical research accumulating over the years on
psychodynamic treatment (PDT), especially research published since the previous edition of …

Objectives: A methodological obstacle for the assessment of psychotherapy process
concerns the compatibility between nomothetic versus idiographic approaches. Using …

At a recent symposium on aging biology, a debate was held as to whether or not we know
what biological aging is. Most of the participants were struck not only by the lack of …

Objective: We use a new variable selection procedure for treatment selection which
generates treatment recommendations based on pre-treatment characteristics for adults with …

The COVID-19 crisis has required many therapists to switch to video conferencing
psychotherapy (VCP). Knowledge about the importance of epistemic trust and its …

How important is the timing of the pretreatment evaluation? If we consider mental health to
be a relatively fixed condition, the specific timing (eg, day, hour) of the evaluation is …