Psychotherapeutic treatment of adolescents requires age-specific approaches and thus
plausibly also involves different change mechanisms than adult psychotherapy. To guide …

Computerized natural language processing techniques can analyze psychotherapy
sessions as texts, thus generating information about the therapy process and outcome and …

Objective: We describe client–therapist relational narratives collected in relationship
anecdotes paradigm (RAP) interviews during psychotherapy and the application of the core …

Emerging adulthood seems to be a period of not only heightened risk for mental health
symptoms, but also growth toward greater well‐being. Mental health disorders are highest …

Aim While childhood adversity is a known risk for depressive symptoms, little is known about
the contributing role of individuation difficulties among young adults. The present study …

This chapter draws on attachment theory and contemporary relational psychoanalytic
concepts in order to shed light on the dynamics of closeness versus distance in the …

This chapter uses attachment theory as a framework to begin the pathway to
conceptualization of therapists' responsiveness to their clients by considering the …

Although pre-treatment assessments of the capacity for the psychotherapy process can aid
in identifying patients experiencing great difficulties in therapy and in tailoring therapies for …

Countertransference may reflect the patients' diagnosis and can be used to better
understand patients' inner worlds and core conflictual relationship themes (CCRTs). Thus …

Case formulation for people with personality disorders is made easy using the core
conflictual relationship theme (CCRT) method. The reason is the tight overlap in our …