Research Publications

Affect Phobia Therapy Research Bibliography

• Aafjes-van Doorn, K., Lilliengren, P, Cooper, A., Macdonald, J., & Falkenström, F. (2017) Patients’ affective processes within initial experiential dynamic therapy sessions. Psychotherapy, 54(2), 175-183.
• Aafjes-van Doorn, K., Macdonald, J., Stein, M., Cooper, A. M., & Tucker, S. (2014). Experiential Dynamic Therapy: A Preliminary Investigation Into the Effectiveness and Process of the Extended Initial Session. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 70(10), 914-923.
• Bakker, A., Versteeg C., Alles om het lijf. Het belang van lichaamstaal in de AFT. Tijdschrift voor Psychotherapie, March 2023, Vol. 49(2), 104 – 118.
• Berggraf, L., Ulvenes, P. G., Hoffart, A., McCullough, L., & Wampold, B. E. (2014). Growth in sense of self and sense of others predicts reduction in interpersonal problems in short-term dynamic but not in cognitive therapy. Psychotherapy Research, 24, 456-469. doi: 10.1080/10503307.2013.840401
• Berggraf, L., Ulvenes, P. G., Oktedalen, T., Hoffart, A., Stiles, T., McCullough, L., & Wampold, B. E. (2014). Experience of affects predicting sense of self and others in short-term dynamic and cognitive therapy. Psychotherapy, 51, 246-257.
• Berggraf, L., Ulvenes, P. G., Wampold, B. E., Hoffart, A., & McCullough, L. (2012). Properties of the Achievement of Therapeutic Objectives Scale (ATOS): A generalizability theory study. Psychotherapy Research, 22, 327-347. doi:10.1080/10503307.2011.653997
• Bhatia, M., Rodriguez, M. G., Fowler, D. M., Godin, J. E., Drapeau, M., & McCullough, L. (2009). Desensitization of conflicted feelings: Using the ATOS to measure early change in a single-case affect phobia therapy treatment. Archives of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, 11, 31-38.
• Booth, A., Trimble, T., & Egan, J. (2010). Body-centred counter-transference in a sample of Irish clinical psychologists. Irish Psychologist.
• Carr, Ciaran, & Egan, Jonathan. (2017). Is a therapist’s attachment style predictive of stress and burnout in a sample of Irish therapists? Éisteach The Irish Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy, 17(1).
• Cautela, J.R. & McCullough, L (1978) Covert conditioning: A learning theory perspective on imagery, In J.L. Singer& K.S. Pope (Eds.) The power of the human imagination (pp. 227-254). New York: Plenum Press
• Dehghani, M., Atef-Vahid, M. K., & Gharaee, B. (2011). Efficacy of short–term anxiety-regulating psychotherapy on love trauma syndrome. Iranian Journal of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, 5(2), 18-25.
• Dominic, J., O’Connor, K. (2016) Recasting Psychodynamics into a Behavioral Framework: A Review of the Theory of Psychopathology, Treatment Efficacy, and Process of Change of the Affect Phobia Model. J. Contemp Psychother doi: 10.1007/s10879-016-9324-9
• Donovan, J., Osborn, K., & Rice, S. (2016), Paraverbal Communication in Psychotherapy: Beyond the Words, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Dornelas, E. A., Ferrand, J., Stepnowski, R., Barbagallo, J., & McCullough, L. (2010). A pilot study of affect-focused psychotherapy for antepartum depression. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 20, 364-382. doi:10.1037/a0022035
• Egan, J., Meehan, J., Carr, A., & Hevey, D. (2015). Burnout, is it just a case of immature defence styles?. European Health Psychologist, 17(S), 475.
• Etchebarne, I., Garay, C. & Aafjes-van Doorn, K. (in press). Psychotherapy for Personal Growth? A Comparison of South and North American Practices. International Psychology Bulletin.
• Fitzgerald-Yau, N., & Egan, J. (2018). Defense Styles Mediate the Association Between Empathy and Burnout Among Nurses. The Journal of nervous and mental disease, 206(7), 555-561.
• Fox, S., Conneely, S., & Egan, J. (2017). Emotional expression and eating in overweight and obesity. Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, 5(1), 337-357.
• Frankl, M., Philips, B., Berggraf, L., Ulvenes, P., Johansson, R., Wennberg, P. (2016). Psychometric Properties of the Affect Phobia Test. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 57(5), 482-488.
• Frankl, My, Psychotherapy for Substance Use Disorders – the importance of affects (2017). Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
• Frankl, M., (2019) Wanting Too Much and Too Soon-The Therapist’s Clinical Perspective. Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy, Volume 15, Module 3, Article 1, pp 281-289.
• Frankl, M., Wennberg, P., Berggraf, L., Philips, B., (2019) Affect Phobia Therapy for Mild to Moderate Alcohol Use Disorder: The Cases of “Carey,” “Michelle,” and “Mary.” Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy, Volume 15, Module 3, Article 1, pp 214-257.
• Hamilton, L., Hannigan, B., Egan, J., Trimble, T., Donaghey, C., Osborn, K. (2020) An Exploration of Body-Centred Countertransference in Irish Therapist. Clinical Psychology Today, 4 (2), December pages 27-39.
• Johansson, R., Hesslow, T., Ljótsson, B., Jansson, A., Jonsson, L., Färdig, S., . . . Andersson, G. (2017). Internet-based affect-focused psychodynamic therapy for social anxiety disorder: A randomized controlled trial with 2-year follow-up. Psychotherapy, 54(4), 351-360.
• Johansen, P.-O., Krebs, T. S., Svartberg, M., Stiles, T. C., & Holen, A. (2011). Change in defense mechanisms during short-term dynamic and cognitive therapy in patients with cluster C personality disorders. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 199, 712-715. doi:10.1097/NMD.0b013e318229d6a7
• Johansson, R., Björklund, M., Hornborg, C., Karlsson, S., Hesser, H., Ljótsson, B., … & Andersson, G. (2013). Affect-focused psychodynamic psychotherapy for depression and anxiety through the Internet: A randomized controlled trial. PeerJ, 1, e102. doi: 10.7717/peerj.102
• Johansson, R., Frederick, R. J., & Andersson, G. (2013). Using the Internet to provide psychodynamic psychotherapy. Psychodynamic Psychiatry, 41, 385-412.
• Julien, D., O’Connor, K. P. (2016). Recasting Psychodynamics into a Behavioral Framework: A Review of the Theory of Psychopathology, Treatment Efficacy, and Process of Change of the Affect Phobia Model. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy (online first view. doi 10.1007/s10879-016-9324-9.
• Kallestad, H., Valen, J., McCullough, L., Svartberg, M., Hoglend, P., & Stiles, T. C. (2010). The relationship between insight gained during therapy and long-term outcome in short-term dynamic psychotherapy and cognitive therapy for cluster C personality disorders. Psychotherapy Research, 20, 526-534. doi:10.1080/10503307.2010.492807
• Kehoe, E., & Egan, J. (2019). Interpersonal attachment insecurity and emotional attachment to possessions partly mediate the relationship between childhood trauma and hoarding symptoms in a non-clinical sample. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 21, 37-45.
• Koole, Sander L. & Teacher, Wolfgang (2016), A Review and an Integrative Framework for the Therapeutic Alliance, Frontiers in Psychology, 14 June 2016, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00862
• Llewelyn, S., & Aafjes-van Doorn, K. (in press). A very short introduction to Clinical Psychology’. ‘Very Short Introduction’ series. UK: Oxford University Press.
• Llewelyn, S., Hardy, G. & Aafjes-van Doorn, K. (2015) Chapter 11. Psychologists as researchers. In J. Hall (Ed.) Clinical psychology in Britain: Historical perspectives, UK: British Psychological Society.
• Llewelyn, S., Macdonald, J. & Aafjes-van Doorn, K. (2016). Process-Outcome Studies. In (Ed. J. Norcross) Handbook of Clinical Psychology, American Psychological Association.
• McCluskey, Understanding the self and understanding therapy: an attachment perspective. Context Magazine, February 2010.
• McCullough, L., & Magill, M. (2009). Affect-focused short-term dynamic therapy. In R. A. Levy & J. S. Ablon (Eds.), Handbook of evidence-based psychodynamic psychotherapy: Bridging the gap between science and practice (pp. 249-277). Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.
• McCullough, L., Kuhn, N., Andrews, S., Valen, J., Hatch, D., & Osimo, F. (2003). The Reliability of the Achievement of Therapeutic Objectives Scale: A Research and Teaching Tool for Brief Psychotherapy. Journal of Brief Therapy, 2, 75-90
• McCullough, L., Winston, A., Farber, B. A., Porter, F., Pollack, J., Vingiano, W., Trujillo, M. (1991). The relationship of patient-therapist interaction to outcome in brief psychotherapy. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training, 28(4), 525-533. doi: 10.1037/0033-3204.28.4.525.
• McCullough, L. & Winston, A (1991), The Beth Israel Psychotherapy Research Program. In L. Beutler & M. Crago (Eds) Psychotherapy research: An international review of programmatic studies (pp. 15-23). Washington D.C.: American Psychological Association Press
• McManus, F., Van Doorn, K., & Yiend, J. (2011). Examining the effects of thought records and behavioral experiments in instigating belief change. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 43, 540-547.
• Moghadam, M. N., Atef-Vahid, M., Asgharnejad-Farid, A., Shabani, A., & Lavasni, F. (2015). Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy versus Sertraline in Treatment of Social Phobia. Iranian Journal of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Iran J Psychiatry Behav Sci, 9(2).
• Mowlaie, M., Hajloo, N., Sadeghi Hashjin, G., Mikaeili, N., & Heidari, Sh. (2018). The Effectiveness of Empathic Dynamic Psychotherapy and Anxiety-Regulating Psychodynamic Therapy in Treating Adult Separation Anxiety Disorder. Jour- nal of Practice in Clinical Psychology, 6(3), 143-152.
• O Laoide, A., Egan, J., and Osborn, K. (2017). What was once essential, may become detrimental: The mediating role of depersonalization in the relationship between childhood emotional maltreatment and psychological distress in adults. Journal of Trauma & Dissociation. November 2017.
• Osborn, K., (2019) The Impact of Affect Phobia Therapy (APT) on Alcohol Use Disorders (AUD)-Evaluating Three Case Studies. Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy, Volume 15, Module 3, Article 1, pp 258-271.
• Philips, B., (2019) The Quest for Causality in Psychotherapy Research. Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy, Volume 15, Module 3, Article 1, pp 272-280.
• Q.D. van Dam, H.D. Philipszoon. Negatief beeld van het zelf en de ander; tweeledige aanpak bij affectfobietherapie. Tijdschrift voor psychiatrie – Jaargang 63 – November 2021
• Quin van Dam & Willemijn de Jong. Affectfobietherapie bij verslavende liefdesrelaties. PsyXpert. juni 2022 nummer 2
• Rosén, E. (2020). Learning how to learn: Psychology Trainees’ Self-compassion while implementing Deliberate Practice, with FIT at a Psychotherapy Training Clinic. Specialization paper. Swedish Psychological Association.
• Ryum, T., Stiles, T. C., Svartberg, M., & McCullough, L. (2010). The role of transference work, the therapeutic alliance, and their interaction in reducing interpersonal problems among psychotherapy patients with Cluster C personality disorders. Psychotherapy: Theory, research, practice, training, 47, 442-453. doi:10.1037/a0021183
• Ryum, T., Store-Valen, J., Svartberg, M., Stiles, T. C., & McCullough, L. (2014). Factor analysis of the Achievement of Therapeutic Objectives Scale (ATOS) in short-term dynamic psychotherapy and cognitive therapy. Psychological Assessment, 26, 925-934. doi: 10.1037/a0036570
• Schanche, E., Nielsen, G. H., McCullough, L., Valen, J., & Mykletun, A. (2010). Training graduate students as raters in psychotherapy process research: Reliability of ratings with the Achievement of Therapeutic Objectives Scale (ATOS). Nordic Psychology, 62, 4-20. doi:10.1027/1901- 2276/a000013
• Schanche, E., Stiles, T. C., McCullough, L., Svartberg, M., & Nielsen, G. H. (2011). The relationship between activating affects, inhibitory affects, and self-compassion in patients with Cluster C personality disorders. Psychotherapy, 48, 293-303. doi:10.1037/a0022012
• Silberschatz, G. & Aafjes-van Doorn, K. (in press). Pathogenic beliefs mediate the relationship between adverse parenting and psychopathology. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma.
• Snyder, J. & Aafjes-van Doorn, K. (2016). Utilizing Measure-Based Feedback in Control-Mastery Theory: A Clinical Error. Psychotherapy, (53), 291-296.
• Svartberg, M., Stiles, T. C., & Seltzer, M. H. (2004). Randomized, controlled trial of the effectiveness of short-term dynamic psychotherapy and cognitive therapy for Cluster C personality disorders. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 161, 810-817. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.161.5.810
• Town, J. M., Hardy, G. E., McCullough, L., & Stride, C. (2012). Patient affect experiencing following therapist interventions in short-term dynamic psychotherapy. Psychotherapy Research, 22, 208- 219. doi:10.1080/10503307.2011.637243
• Town, J. M., McCullough, L., & Hardy, G. E. (2012). Therapist interventions in short-term dynamic psychotherapy: Six expert treatments. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 40, 31-42. doi:10.1080/03069885.2011.621518
• Ulvenes, P. G., Berggraf, L., Hoffart, A., Levy, R. A., Ablon, J., McCullough, L., & Wampold, B. E. (2012). Can two psychotherapy process measures be dependably rated simultaneously? A generalizability study. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 59, 638-644.
• Ulvenes, P. G., Berggraf, L., Hoffart, A., Stiles, T. C., Svartberg, M., McCullough, L., & Wampold, B. E. (2012). Different processes for different therapies: Therapist actions, therapeutic bond, and outcome. Psychotherapy, 49, 291-302. doi:10.1037/a0027895
• Ulvenes, P. G., Berggraf, L., Wampold, B. E., Hoffart, A., Stiles, T., & McCullough, L. (2014). Orienting patient to affect, sense of self, and the activation of affect over the course of psychotherapy with cluster C patients. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 61, 315-324. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/cou0000028
• Valen, J., Ryum, T., Svartberg, M., Stiles, T. C., & McCullough, L. (2011). The Achievement of Therapeutic Objectives Scale: Interrater reliability and sensitivity to change in short-term dynamic psychotherapy and cognitive therapy. Psychological Assessment, 23, 848-855. doi:10.1037/a0023649
• Van Doorn, K., McManus, F., & Yiend, J. (2012). An analysis of matching cognitive-behavior therapy techniques to learning styles. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. 43, 1039-1044.
• Winston, A, Laikin M, Pollack J, Samstag L, McCullough L, Muran C. Short-Term Psychotherapy of Personality Disorders: 2 year follow-up. American Journal of Psychiatry, 1994, 151(2):190-194.