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The benefits of psychotherapy

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The article was published on 1980-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1784 citations till now.

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Clinical significance: a statistical approach to defining meaningful change in psychotherapy research.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors defined clinically significant change as the extent to which therapy moves someone outside the range of the dysfunctional population or within the ranges of the functional population, and proposed a reliable change index (RC) to determine whether the magnitude of change for a given client is statistically reliable.
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In search of how people change: Applications to addictive behaviors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors summarized research on self-initiated and professionally facilitated change of addictive behaviors using the key transtheoretical constructs of stages and processes of change.
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Relation of the therapeutic alliance with outcome and other variables: a meta-analytic review.

TL;DR: The results of the meta-analysis indicate that the overall relation of therapeutic alliance with outcome is moderate, but consistent, regardless of many of the variables that have been posited to influence this relationship.
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Genetic Epidemiology of Major Depression: Review and Meta-Analysis

TL;DR: A meta-analysis of relevant data from primary studies of the genetic epidemiology of major depression suggested that familial aggregation was due to additive genetic effects, with a minimal contribution of environmental effects common to siblings and substantial individual-specific environmental effects/measurement error.
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Hope theory: Rainbows in the mind.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors defined hope as the perceived capability to derive pathways to desired goals, and motivate oneself via agency thinking to use those pathways, and described the adult and child hope scales that are derived from hope theory.