Background Within the past decade, health care service and research priorities have shifted
from evidence‐based medicine to personalized medicine. In mental health care, a similar …

Therapist responsiveness is defined as therapist behavior being influenced by emerging
context. Responsiveness is ubiquitous and creates serious problems for a ballistic, cause …

This chapter addresses fundamental issues of change in psychotherapy: how to measure,
monitor, predict change, and provide feedback on treatment outcome. The chapter starts …

Objective: The coordination of patient's and therapist's bodily movement–nonverbal
synchrony–has been empirically shown to be associated with psychotherapy outcome. This …

Objective: The present article proposes a general framework and a set of specific
methodological steps for conducting person-specific dynamic assessments, which yield …

Objective: There is a need for rigorous methods to study the mechanisms that lead to
individual-level change (ie, process-outcome research). We argue that panel data (ie …

Notwithstanding the many methodological advances made in the field of psychotherapy
research, at present a metatheoretical, school-independent framework to explain …

The science of dynamic systems is the study of pattern formation and system change.
Dynamic systems theory can provide a useful framework for understanding the chronicity of …

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

Person-mean centering has been recommended for disaggregating between-person and
within-person effects when modeling time-varying predictors. Multilevel modeling textbooks …