The association between quality of therapeutic alliance and treatment outcomes in teletherapy: A systematic review and meta-analysis

K Aafjes-van Doorn, DS Spina, S Horne… - Clinical Psychology …, 2024 - Elsevier
Objective The strength of the therapeutic alliance is widely understood to impact treatment
outcomes, however, the alliance-outcome relationship in teletherapy has remained relatively …

Less is more: Decreasing the frequency of maladaptive coping predicts improvements in DBT more consistently than increasing the frequency of adaptive coping

MW Southward, KP Howard, JS Cheavens - Behaviour research and …, 2023 - Elsevier
It is well-established that participation in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) results in
patients using adaptive coping strategies more frequently. Although coping skill instruction …

A Review of Transdiagnostic Mechanisms in Cognitive Behavior Therapy

MW Southward, ML Kushner, DR Terrill… - Psychiatric …, 2024 - psych.theclinics.com
Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is a psychological treatment in which patients are taught
skills to regulate their emotions and more effectively manage their symptoms. 1 Relative to …

Disentangling between-and within-patients effects of emotion regulation on outcome in naturalistic psychotherapy.

J Fernández-Álvarez, A Babl, C Botella… - Journal of Consulting …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: The aim of this study was to disaggregate the between-patient and within-patient
effects of emotion regulation (ER) on treatment outcome and explore relevant trait-like …

The effects of the Unified Protocol and Unified Protocol skills on loneliness in the COVID‐19 pandemic

MW Southward, DR Terrill… - Depression and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Loneliness is a significant public health concern with no established first‐line
intervention although modular, transdiagnostic, cognitive‐behavioral interventions, such as …

[HTML][HTML] Do unified protocol modules exert general or unique effects on anxiety, depression, and transdiagnostic targets?

MW Southward, SP Lane, SE Shroyer… - Journal of mood and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Several transdiagnostic cognitive-behavior therapies include multiple treatment
components. However, it is unclear whether some components are more efficacious than …

Assessing theories of state and trait change in neuroticism and symptom improvement in the Unified Protocol

NE Stumpp, MW Southward, S Sauer-Zavala - Behavior Therapy, 2024 - Elsevier
Researchers have shown neuroticism decreases with treatment (Roberts et al., 2017),
although it is unclear if this reflects fleeting state-level changes (state-artifact position) or trait …

Investigating psychiatric symptoms as predictors of the reasons people do not regulate their emotions in daily life.

KE Daniel, MW Southward, BA Teachman - Emotion, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Investigations into emotion dysregulation predominantly focus on ineffective strategy
selection and implementation. However, little empirical attention has been given to the …

A preliminary evaluation of the unified protocol among trauma-exposed adults with and without PTSD

CO Hood, MW Southward, C Bugher… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether the Unified Protocol (UP)—a
mechanistically transdiagnostic psychological treatment—provides benefit to individuals …

Within-person changes in aversive reactivity predict session-to-session reductions in anxiety and depression in the unified protocol

SA Semcho, MW Southward, NE Stumpp… - Psychotherapy …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Unified Protocol (UP) theoretically leads to reductions in emotional disorder
symptoms by reducing aversive reactions to emotions. However, aversive reactions can take …