In this study, we introduce the journal issue devoted to evidence‐based responsiveness and
frame it within the work of the third interdivisional APA Task Force on Evidence‐Based …

Efforts to improve community-based children's mental health care should be based on valid
information about effective practices and current routine practices. Emerging research on …

This text explores how psychotherapists can use deliberate practice to improve their clinical
effectiveness. By sourcing through decades of research on how experts in diverse fields …

The therapeutic relationship and responsiveness/treatment adaptations rightfully occupy a
prominent, evidence-based place in any guidelines for the psychological treatment of …

Psychotherapy does not always follow a linear path. The present study explores the
frequency of sudden gains and losses during the course of outpatient psychotherapy. The …

Not only do treatment, therapist, client, and contextual variables depend partly on each other—
confounding effects supposedly assessed in randomized clinical trials (RCTs) of …

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are currently the dominant methodology for evaluating
psychological treatments. They are widely regarded as the gold standard, and in the current …

Objective: We examined individual overall trajectories of change and the occurrence of
sudden gains in daily self-rated problem severity and the relation of these patterns to …

Objective: The therapeutic alliance is a well-established predictor of psychotherapy
outcome, yet much research has shown that therapists' and patients' views of the alliance …

In this journal's first article, Strupp (1963) pointed to problems specifying independent and
dependent variables as a source of slow progress in psychotherapy outcome research. This …