Last 5 Years:
In Press/Accepted
Dixon-Gordon, K. L., Waite, E. E., Gaines, A. N., & Constantino, M. J. (in press). Emotion regulation as a mechanism of change in psychotherapy. In A. Samson, D. Sander, & U. Kramer (Eds.), Change in emotion and mental health.
Boswell, J. F., Constantino, M. J., Gaines, A. N., & Smith, A. E. (2023). Responding to key process markers as a focus of psychotherapy training and practice. Clinical Psychology in Europe.
Leong, F. T. L., Constantino, M. J., Zimmerman, J. Callahan, J. L., & Eubanks, C. F. (in press). APA Handbook of Psychotherapy: Introduction. In F. T. L. Leong (Editor-in-Chief). Handbook of Psychotherapy. American Psychological Association.
Eubanks, C. F., & Constantino, M. J. (in press). Introduction to Volume 2, Part I: Evidence-based practice. In F. T. L. Leong (Editor-in-Chief). Handbook of Psychotherapy: Vol 2. American Psychological Association.
Constantino, M. J., & Eubanks, C. F. (in press). Introduction to Volume 2, Part 2: Practice-based evidence and participant-driven/contextual practice. In F. T. L. Leong (Editor-in-Chief). Handbook of Psychotherapy: Vol 2. American Psychological Association.
Constantino, M. J., & Muir, H. J. (in press). Can we prospectively harness therapist effects for therapeutic benefit? In F. T. L. Leong (Editor-in-Chief). Handbook of Psychotherapy: Vol 2. American Psychological Association.
2023
Boswell, J. F., Schwartzman, C., Constantino, M. J., Scharff, A., Muir, H. J., Gaines, A. N., King, B. R., & Kraus, D. R. (2023). A qualitative analysis of stakeholder attitudes regarding personalized provider selection and patient-therapist matching. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10488-023-01302-w
Constantino, M. J., Coyne, A. E., Boswell, J. F., Goldfried, M. R., & Castonguay, L. G. (2023). Training on context-responsive psychotherapy integration: An evidence-informed framework. In L. G. Castonguay & C. E. Hill (Eds.), Becoming better psychotherapists: Advancing training and supervision (pp. 85–105). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000364-005
Kraus, D. R., Williams, A. A., Hobbs, K., Constantino, M. J., Boswell, J. F., & Trudeau, K. J. (2023). Revisiting our approach to behavioral health referrals. Journal of Family Practice, 72(4), E1–E6. https://doi.org/10.12788/jfp.0588
Gaines, A. N., Constantino, M. J., Coyne, A. E., Atkinson, L. R., Bagby, M., Ravitz, P., & McBride, C. (2023). Change in satisfaction with social support as a common outcome in interpersonal psychotherapy and cognitive behavioral therapy for depression. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/int0000303
Constantino, M. J., Boswell, J. F., Coyne, A. E., Muir, H. J., Gaines, A. N., & Kraus, D. R. (2023). Therapist perceptions of their own measurement-based, problem-specific effectiveness. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 91(8), 474–484. https://doi.org/10.1037/ccp0000813
Constantino, M. J., Muir, H. J., Gaines, A. N., & Ouimette, K. (2023). Hope and expectancy factors. In S. D. Miller, D. Chow, S. Malins, & M. A. Hubble (Eds.), The field guide to better results: Evidence-based exercises to improve therapeutic effectiveness (pp. 131–153). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000358-007
Coyne, A. E., Constantino, M. J., Muir, H. J., Gaines, A. N., & Vîslă, A. (2023). Participant factors as correlates of patients’ psychotherapy outcome expectation: A meta-analytic and box-count review. Psychotherapy Research, 33(7), 974–988. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2023.2197629
Constantino, M. J., Castonguay, L. G., Coyne, A. E., Boswell, J. F., & Newman, M. G. (2023). Baseline overly accommodating interpersonal problems in relation to parsed alliance-outcome associations in cognitive behavioral therapy for generalized anxiety disorder. Psychotherapy Research, 33(1), 3–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2022.2086836
Constantino, M. J., Gaines, A. N., Coyne, A. E., Boswell, J. F., & Kraus, D. R. (2023). Existential isolation as a correlate of mental health problems, predictor of treatment outcome, and moderator of a patient-therapist match effect. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 42(1), 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1521/jscp.2023.42.1.1
2022
Coyne, A. E., Constantino, M. J., Ouimette, K. A., Gaines, A. N., Atkinson, L. R., Bagby, M., Ravitz, P., & McBride, C. (2022). Replicating patient-level moderators of CBT and IPT’s comparative efficacy for depression. Psychotherapy, 59(4), 616–628. https://doi.org/10.1037/pst0000458
Liu, G., Isbell, L. M., Constantino, M. J., & Leidner, B. (2022). Quiet ego intervention enhances flourishing by increasing quiet ego characteristics and trait emotional intelligence: A randomized experiment. Journal of Happiness Studies. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-022-00560-z
Constantino, M. J., Gaines, A. N., Coyne, A. E. (2022). Clients’ own perspectives on psychotherapy outcomes and their mechanisms. In J. N. Fuertes (Ed.), The other side of psychotherapy: Understanding clients’ experiences and contributions in treatment (pp. 317–349). American Psychological Association.
Gaines, A. N., Constantino, M. J., Coyne, A. E., Boswell, J. F., & Kraus, D. R. (2022). Patient-therapist expectancy convergence and outcome in naturalistic psychotherapy. Psychotherapy, 59(4), 584–593. https://doi.org/10.1037/pst0000437
Boswell, J. F., Constantino, M. J., & Coyne, A. E. (2022). What works in therapy when delivered by whom? Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 29(2), 137–139. https://doi.org/10.1037/cps0000072
Zilcha-Mano, S., Constantino, M. J., & Eubanks, C. F. (2022). Evidence-based tailoring of treatment to patients, providers, and processes: Introduction to the special issue. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 90(1), 1–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/ccp0000694
Boswell, J. F., Constantino, M. J., Coyne, A. E., & Kraus, D. R. (2022). For whom does a match matter most? Patient-level moderators of evidence-based patient-therapist matching. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 90(1), 61–74. https://doi.org/10.1037/ccp0000644
2021
Coyne, A. E., Constantino, M. J., Boswell, J. F., & Kraus, D. R. (2021). Therapist-level moderation of within- and between-therapist process-outcome association. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 90(1), 75–89. https://doi.org/10.1037/ccp0000676
Hara, K. M., Westra, H. A., Coyne, A. E., Di Bartolomeo, A. A., Constantino, M. J., & Antony, M. M. (2021). Therapist affiliation and hostility in cognitive-behavioral therapy with and without motivational interviewing for severe generalized anxiety disorder. Psychotherapy Research, 32(5), 598–610. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2021.2001069
Constantino, M. J., Boswell, F. J., & Coyne, A. E. (2021). Patient, therapist, and relational factors. In M. Barkham, W. Lutz, & L. G. Castonguay (Eds.), Bergin and Garfield's handbook of psychotherapy and behavior change (7th ed.; pp. 225–262). Wiley.
Boswell, J. F., & Constantino, M. J. (2021). The essentials of deliberate practice: Cognitive-behavioral therapy. American Psychological Association.
Westra, H. A., Norouzian, N., Poulin, L., Coyne, A. E., Constantino, M. J., Hara, K., Olson, D., & Antony, M. M. (2021). Testing a deliberate practice workshop for developing appropriate responsivity to resistance markers. Psychotherapy, 58(2), 175–185. https://doi.org/10.1037/pst0000311
Vîslă, A., Constantino, M. J., & Flückiger, C. (2021). Predictors of change in patient treatment outcome expectation during cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy for generalized anxiety disorder. Psychotherapy, 58(2), 219–229. https://doi.org/10.1037/pst0000371
Constantino, M. J., Goodwin, B. J., Muir, H. J., Coyne, A. E., & Boswell, J. F. (2021). Context-responsive psychotherapy integration applied to cognitive behavioral therapy. In J. C. Watson & H. Wiseman (Eds.), The responsive psychotherapist: Attuning to clients in the moment. (pp. 151–169). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000240-008
Boswell, J. F., King, B. R., Schwartzman, C. M., Wasserman, R. H., & Constantino, M. J. (2021). Responsiveness in integrative therapies. In J. C. Watson & H. Wiseman (Eds.), The responsive psychotherapist: Attuning to clients in the moment. (pp. 277–296). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000240-014
Constantino, M. J., Boswell, J. F., Kraus, D. R., & Swales, T. (2021). Matching Patients with Therapists to Improve Mental Health Care. Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). https://doi.org/10.25302/07.2021.IHS.150328573
Coyne, A. E., Constantino, M. J., Gaines, A. N., Laws, H. B., Westra, H. A., & Antony, M. M. (2021). The association between therapist attunement to patient outcome expectation and worry reduction in two therapies for generalized anxiety disorder. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 68(2), 182–193. https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000457
Constantino, M. J., Boswell, J. F., Coyne, A. E., Swales, T. P., & Kraus, D. R. (2021). Effect of matching therapists to patients vs assignment as usual on adult psychotherapy outcomes: A randomized clinical trial. JAMA Psychiatry, 78(9), 960–969. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2021.1221
Constantino, M. J., Coyne, A. E., Vîslă, A., Flückiger, C., Goodwin, B. J., Muir, H. J., & Gaines, A. N. (2021). Indirect effect of patient outcome expectation on improvement through alliance quality: A meta-analysis. Psychotherapy Reseearch, 31(6), 711–725. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2020.1851058
Morrison, N. R., Constantino, M. J., Santorelli, G., McVicar, E., & Ametrano, R. M. (2021). Determinants of psychotherapy outcome expectations: Qualitative accounts from socially anxious college students. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 21, 781–791. https://doi.org/10.1002/capr.12411
Boswell, J. F., Constantino, M. J., Oswald, J. M., Bugatti, M., Coyne, A. E., Goodwin, B. J., & Morrison, N. R. (2021). A multi-method study of mental health care patients’ attitudes toward clinician-level performance information. Psychiatric Services, 72(4), 452–456. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202000366
Muir, H. J., Constantino, M. J., Coyne, A. E., Westra, H. A., & Antony, M. M. (2021). Integrating responsive motivational interviewing with cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for generalized anxiety disorder: Direct and indirect effects on interpersonal outcomes. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 31(1), 54–69. https://doi.org/10.1037/int0000194
Norouzian, N., Westra, H. A., Button, M. L., Constantino, M. J., & Antony, M. M. (2021). Ambivalence and the working alliance in variants of cognitive-behavioural therapy for generalised anxiety disorder. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 21(3), 587–596. https://doi.org/10.1002/capr.12332
Gaines, A. N., Goldfried, M. R., & Constantino, M. J. (2021). Revived call for consensus in the future of psychotherapy. Evidence-Based Mental Health, 24, 2–4. http://doi.org/10.1136/ebmental-2020-300208
2020
Bernecker, S. L., Williams, J. J., Caporale-Berkowitz, N., Wasil, A. R., & Constantino, M. J. (2020). Non-professional peer support to improve mental health: Randomized trial of a scalable web-based peer counseling course. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 22(9):e17164. https://doi.org/10.2196/17164
Boswell, J. F., Constantino, M. J., & Goldfried, M. R. (2020). A proposed makeover of psychotherapy training: Contents, methods, and outcomes. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 27, e12340. https://doi.org/10.1111/cpsp.12340
Gómez Penedo, J. M., Coyne, A. E., Constantino, M. J., Krieger, T., Hayes, A. M., & grosse Holtforth, M. (2020). Theory-specific patient change processes and mechanisms in different cognitive therapies for depression. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 88(8), 774–785. https://doi.org/10.1037/ccp0000502
Constantino, M. J., Coyne, A. E., & Muir, H. J. (2020). Evidence-based therapist responsivity to disruptive clinical process. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 27(4), 405–416. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpra.2020.01.003
Mamedova, K., Westra, H. A., Constantino, M. J., Shekarak, N., & Antony, M. M. (2020). Resistance and outcome expectations in cognitive-behavioral therapy for generalized anxiety disorder. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 20(2), 265–275. https://doi.org/10.1002/capr.12289
Constantino, M. J., Aviram, A., Coyne, A. E., Newkirk, K., Greenberg, R. P., Westra, H. A., & Antony, M. M. (2020). Dyadic, longitudinal associations among outcome expectation and alliance, and their indirect effects on patient outcome. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 67(1), 40–50. https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000364
Rousmaniere, T., Wright, C. V., Boswell, J. F., Constantino, M. J., Castonguay, L. G., McLeod, J., Pedulla, D., & Nordal, K. (2020). Keeping psychologists in the driver’s seat: Four perspectives on quality improvement and clinical data registries. Psychotherapy, 57(4), 562–573. https://doi.org/10.1037/pst0000227
2019
Goodwin, B. J., Constantino, M. J., Westra, H. A., Button, M. L., & Antony, M. M. (2019). Patient motivational language as a predictor of symptom change, clinically significant response, and time to response in psychotherapy for generalized anxiety disorder. Psychotherapy, 56(4), 537–548. https://doi.org/10.1037/pst0000269
Muir, H. J., Coyne, A. E., Morrison, N. R., Boswell, J. F., & Constantino, M. J. (2019). Ethical implications of routine outcomes monitoring for patients, psychotherapists, and mental health care systems. Psychotherapy, 56(4), 459–469. https://doi.org/10.1037/pst0000246
Constantino, M. J., Sommer, R. K., Goodwin, B. J., Coyne, A. E., & Pinel, E. C. (2019). Existential isolation as a correlate of clinical distress, beliefs about psychotherapy, and experiences with mental health treatment. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 29(4), 389–399. https://doi.org/10.1037/int0000172
Gomez Penedo, J. M., Constantino, M. J., Coyne, A. E., Romano, F. M., Westra, H. A., & Antony, M. M. (2019). Baseline client interpersonal agency moderates the indirect effect of treatment on long-term worry in variants of CBT for generalized anxiety disorder. Behavior Therapy, 50(6), 1063–1074. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beth.2019.01.007
Coyne, A. E., Constantino, M. J., Westra, H. A., & Antony, M. M. (2019). Interpersonal change as a mediator of the within- and between-patient alliance-outcome association in two treatments for generalized anxiety disorder. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 87(5), 472–483. https://doi.org/10.1037/ccp0000394
Lenton-Brym, A. P., Stewart, K. E., Coyne, A. E., Westra, H. A., Constantino, M. J., & Antony, M. M. (2019). Can self-report measures of readiness for change and treatment ambivalence predict outcomes in cognitive-behavioral therapy for generalized anxiety disorder? Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 33(4), 301–319. https://doi.org/10.1891/0889-8391.33.4.301
Ravitz, P., Watson, P., Lawson, A., Constantino, M. J., Bernecker, S. L., Park, J., & Schwartz, H. A. (2019). Interpersonal psychotherapy: A scoping review and historical perspective (1974-2017). Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 27(3), 165–180. https://doi.org/10.1097/HRP.0000000000000219
Coyne, A. E., Constantino, M. J., & Muir, H. J. (2019). Therapist responsivity to patients’ early treatment beliefs and psychotherapy process. Psychotherapy, 56(1), 11–15. https://doi.org/10.1037/pst0000200
Poulin, L. E., Button, M. L., Westra, H. A., Constantino, M. J., & Antony, M. M. (2019). The predictive capacity of self-reported motivation vs. early observed motivational language in cognitive behavioural therapy for generalized anxiety disorder. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, 48(5), 369–384. https://doi.org/10.1080/16506073.2018.1517390
Coyne, A. E., Constantino, M. J., Westra, H. A., & Antony, M. M. (2019). Competing indirect effects in a comparative psychotherapy trial for generalized anxiety disorder. Psychotherapy, 56(4), 549–554. https://doi.org/10.1037/pst0000163
Vîslă, A., Flückiger, C., Constantino, M. J., Krieger, T., & grosse Holtforth, M. (2019). Patient characteristics and the therapist as predictors of depressed patients’ outcome expectation over time: A multilevel analysis. Psychotherapy Research, 29(6), 709–722. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2018.1428379
Gomez Penedo, J. M., Constantino, M. J., Coyne, A. E., Bernecker, S. L., & Smith Hansen, L. (2019). Patient baseline interpersonal problems as moderators of outcome in two psychotherapies for bulimia nervosa. Psychotherapy Research, 29(6), 799–811. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2018.1425931
Button, M. L., Norouzian, N., Westra, H. A., Constantino, M. J., & Antony, M. M. (2019). Client reflections on confirmation and disconfirmation of expectations in cognitive behavioral therapy for generalized anxiety with and without motivational interviewing. Psychotherapy Research, 29(6), 723–736. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2018.1425932
Constantino, M. J., Westra, H. A., Antony, M. M., & Coyne, A. E. (2019). Specific and common processes as mediators of the long-term effects of cognitive-behavioral therapy integrated with motivational interviewing for generalized anxiety disorder. Psychotherapy Research, 29(2), 213–225. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2017.1332794
Castonguay, L. G., Constantino, M. J., & Beutler, L. E. (Eds.). (2019). Principles of change: How psychotherapists implement research in practice. Oxford University Press.
Castonguay, L. G., Constantino, M. J., & Beutler, L. E. (2019). Implementing evidence-based principles of therapeutic change: A bidirectional collaboration between clinicians and researchers. In L. G. Castonguay, M. J. Constantino, & L. E. Beutler (Eds.), Principles of change: How psychotherapists implement research findings in practice (pp. 3–12). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/med-psych/9780199324729.003.0001
McAleavey, A., Xiao, H., Bernecker, S. L., Holt, H., Morrison, N. R., Stein, M., Youn, S., Castonguay, L. G., Constantino, M. J., & Beutler, L. E. (2019). An updated list of principles of change that work. In L. G. Castonguay, M. J. Constantino, & L. E. Beutler (Eds.), Principles of change: How psychotherapists implement research findings in practice (pp. 13–37). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/med-psych/9780199324729.003.0002
Castonguay, L. G., Constantino, M. J., & Beutler, L. E. (2019). Depression cases. In L. G. Castonguay, M. J. Constantino, & L. E. Beutler (Eds.), Principles of change: How psychotherapists implement research findings in practice (pp. 41–56). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/med-psych/9780199324729.003.0003
Johnson, B., Vivian, D., Wolf, A. W., Beutler, L. E., Castonguay, L. G., & Constantino, M. J. (2019). Conceptual, clinical, and empirical perspectives on principles of change for depression. In L. G. Castonguay, M. J. Constantino, & L. E. Beutler (Eds.), Principles of change: How psychotherapists implement research findings in practice (pp. 167–211). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/med-psych/9780199324729.003.0007
Castonguay, L. G., Constantino, M. J., & Beutler, L. E. (2019). Anxiety disorders cases. In L. G. Castonguay, M. J. Constantino, & L. E. Beutler (Eds.), Principles of change: How psychotherapists implement research findings in practice (pp. 215–230). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/med-psych/9780199324729.003.0008
Papiasvile, E. D., Spayd, C. S., Wolf, A. W., Weinberg, I., Beutler, L. E., Castonguay, L. G., & Constantino, M. J. (2019). Conceptual, clinical, and empirical perspectives on principles of change for anxiety disorders. In L. G. Castonguay, M. J. Constantino, & L. E. Beutler (Eds.), Principles of change: How psychotherapists implement research findings in practice (pp. 325–362). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/med-psych/9780199324729.003.0012
Castonguay, L. G., Constantino, M. J., & Beutler, L. E. (2019). Harvesting the fruits of a clinician-researcher collaboration and planting seeds for new partnerships. In L. G. Castonguay, M. J. Constantino, & L. E. Beutler (Eds.), Principles of change: How psychotherapists implement research findings in practice (pp. 365–376). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/med-psych/9780199324729.003.0013
Castonguay, L. G., Constantino, M. J., & Xiao, H. (2019). Integrating research and practice. In J. C. Norcross & M. R. Goldfried (Eds.), Handbook of psychotherapy integration (3rd ed., pp. 432–447). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/med-psych/9780190690465.003.0020
Westra, H. A., & Constantino, M. J. (2019). Integrative psychotherapy for generalized anxiety disorder. In J. C. Norcross & M. R. Goldfried (Eds.), Handbook of psychotherapy integration (3rd ed., pp. 284–302). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/med-psych/9780190690465.003.0013
Constantino, M. J., Vîslă, A., Coyne, A. E., & Boswell, J. F. (2019). Cultivating positive outcome expectation. In J. C. Norcross & M. J. Lambert (Eds.), Psychotherapy relationships that work: Volume 1. Evidence-based therapist contributions (3rd ed., pp. 461–494). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/med-psych/9780190843953.003.0013
Constantino, M. J., Coyne, A. E., Boswell, J. F., Iles, B., & Vîslă, A. (2019). Promoting treatment credibility. In J. C. Norcross & M. J. Lambert (Eds.), Psychotherapy relationships that work: Volume 1. Evidence-based therapist contributions (3rd ed., pp. 495–521). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/med-psych/9780190843953.003.0014
Coyne, A. E., Muir, H. J., & Constantino, M. J. (2019, June). Responsivity to patients’ early treatment beliefs as a form of evidence-based decision making. [Web article]. Retrieved from https://societyforpsychotherapy.org/responsivity-to-patients-early-treatment-beliefs-as-a-form-of-evidence-based-decision-making