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2024

Shimrit Fisher, Timur Guralnik, Peter Fonagy & Sigal Zilcha-Mano (07 Jan 2024): The development of the Epistemic Trust Rating System (ETRS), Psychotherapy Research, DOI: 10.1080/10503307.2023.2299213

2023

Fisher, S., Fonagy, P., Wiseman, H., & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2023). I see you as recognizing me; therefore, I trust you: Operationalizing epistemic trust in psychotherapy. Psychotherapy.

Zilcha-Mano, S., & Webb, C. A. (2023). Identifying who benefits most from supportive versus expressive techniques in psychotherapy for depression: Moderators of within-versus between-individual effects. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.

Bar-Sella, A. Nof, A., Baucom, B., Kaplun, D., Romanov, S., Goldstein, P., Shpakouskaya, I., & Zilcha-Mano, S. (accepted). The prognostic role of emotion regulation dynamics in the treatment of major depressive disorder. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.
Tal, S., Tchizick, A., Shamay-Tsoory, S., Dolev-Amit, T., & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2023, July 13). Biological Marker of Withdrawal Ruptures: Dyadic Pattern of Incongruence in Oxytocin Release. Journal of Counseling Psychology. Advance online
publication. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/cou0000693
Zilcha-Mano, S., Keefe, J. R., Fisher, H., Dolev-Amit, T., Veler-Poleg, N., & Barber, J. P. (2023). Is the use of interpretations associated with treatment outcome? A systematic review and meta-analytic answer. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice.
Fisher, H., Solomonov, N., Falkenström, F., Shahar, B., Shamay-Tsoory, S., & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2023). Therapists’ oxytocin response mediates the association between patients’ negative emotions and psychotherapy outcomes. Journal of Affective Disorders.
‏Yaffe-Herbst, L., Joffe, M., Peysachov, G., Nof, A., Connolly Gibbons, M. B., Crits-Christoph, P., & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2023). The development of a comprehensive coding system for evaluating insight based on a clinical interview: The SUIP-I coding system. Psychotherapy, 60(2), 225.
Zilcha-Mano, S., Orbach, M., Malka, M., & Lebowitz, E. R. (2023). Oxytocin as a Biomarker of Differential Effects to SPACE vs. CBT Treatment of Child Anxiety Disorders. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 1-9.
Bitan, D. T., Grossman-Giron, A., Sedoff, O., Zilcha-Mano, S., Nitzan, U., & Maoz, H. (2023). A double-edged hormone: The moderating role of personality and attachment on oxytocin’s treatment facilitation effect. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 151, 106074.
Huggins, A., Baird, C., Laskowitz, S., Briggs, M., Haswell, C., Sun, D., … & Morey, R. (2023). Smaller total and subregional cerebellar volumes in posttraumatic stress disorder: a mega-analysis by the ENIGMA-PGC PTSD workgroup. Biological Psychiatry, 93(9), S44.
Zilcha-Mano, S., Duek, O., Suarez-Jimenez, B., Zhu, X., Lazarov, A., Helpman, L., … & Neria, Y. (2023). Underlying Hippocampal Mechanism of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Treatment Outcome: Evidence From Two Clinical Trials. Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science.
Bloch‐Elkouby, S., Zilcha‐Mano, S., Rogers, M. L., Park, J. Y., Manlongat, K., Krumerman, M., & Galynker, I. (2023). Who are the patients who deny suicidal intent? Exploring patients’ characteristics associated with self‐disclosure and denial of suicidal intent. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 147(2), 205-216.
Spitzer, M., Dattner, I., & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2023). Digital twins and the future of precision mental health. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14.
Yaffe-Herbst, L., Krapf Forteza-Rey, A., Peysachov, G., & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2023). Pretreatment insight as a predictor of alliance strengthening in supportive vs. supportive-expressive treatment. Psychotherapy Research, 1-9.
Zilcha-Mano, S., Fisher, H., Dolev-Amit, T., Keefe, J. R., & Barber, J. P. (2023). A systematic review of the association between interpretations and immediate, intermediate, and distal outcomes. Psychotherapy.

2022

Tal, S., Bar-Kalifa, E., Kleinbub, J. R., Leibovich, L., Deres-Cohen, K., & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2022). A multimodal case study utilizing physiological synchrony as indicator of context in which motion synchrony is associated with the working alliance. Psychotherapy. Advance online publication.
Zilcha-Mano, S., & Fisher, H. (2022). Distinct roles of state-like and trait-like patient–therapist alliance in psychotherapy. Nature Reviews Psychology, 1-17.
Aafjes-van Doorn, K., Bar-Sella, A., Zilcha-Mano, S. et al. (2022). Within-patient perceptions of alliance and attunement: Associations with progress in psychotherapy. Clinical Psychology & .Psychotherapy.
Bar-Sella, A., Richter, T., Zilcha-Mano, S., & Okon-Singer, H. (2022). How Social Experiences Affect Interpretation Bias among Individuals with Non-Clinical Depression: The Role of Ostracism. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2.‏
Lebowitz, E. & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2022). Not so common anymore? Beyond the common factor understanding of the role of alliance in youth psychotherapy. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice.
Zilcha-Mano, S. (2022). It matters not only where you come from but also where you’re going, and the interplay between the two. A commentary. American Psychologist.
Kramer, U., Fisher. & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2022). How plan analysis can inform the construction of a therapeutic relationship. Journal of Clinical Psychology.

2021

Zilcha-Mano, S., Goldstein, P., Dolev-Amit, T., Ben David-Sela, T., & Barber, J. P. (2021). A randomized controlled trial for identifying the most suitable treatment for depression based on patients’ attachment orientation. Journal of consulting and clinical psychology, 89(12), 985.‏
Lipsitz‐Odess, I., Benisty, H., Dolev‐Amit, T., & Zilcha‐Mano, S. (2021). Alliance rupture profiles by personality disorder pathology in psychotherapy for depression: Tendencies, development, and timing. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy.‏
Deres-Cohen, K., Dolev-Amit, T., Peysachov, G., Ramseyer, F. T., & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2021).Nonverbal synchrony as a marker of alliance ruptures. Psychotherapy, 58(4), 499–509. https://doi.org/10.1037/pst0000384.
Zilcha-Mano, S., Dolev-Amit, T., Fisher, H., Ein-Dor, T. & Strauss B. (2021). Patients’ individual differences in implicit vs. explicit expectations from the therapist as a function of attachment orientation. Journal of Counseling Psychology.
Zilcha-Mano, S., Shahar, B., Fisher, H., Dolev-Amit, T., Greenberg, L. S., & Barber, J. P. (2021). Investigating patient-specific mechanisms of change in SET vs. EFT for depression: study protocol for a mechanistic randomized controlled trial. BMC psychiatry, 21(1), 1-11.‏
Levi, E., Fischer, S., Fisher, H., Admon, R., & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2021). Patient and Therapist In-Session Cortisol as Predictor of Post-Session Patient Reported Affect. Brain Sciences, 11(11), 1483.
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Békés, V., Aafjes‐van Doorn, K., Zilcha‐Mano, S., Prout, T., & Hoffman, L. (2021). Psychotherapists’ Acceptance of Telepsychotherapy During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: A Machine Learning Approach. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy.
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Helpman, L., Zhu, X., Zilcha-Mano, S., Suarez-Jimenez, B., Lazarov, A., Rutherford, B., & Neria, Y. (2021). Reversed patterns of resting state functional connectivity for females vs. males in posttraumatic stress disorder. Neurobiology of stress, 15, 100389.‏
Etkin, R. G., Zilcha-Mano, S., & Lebowitz, E. R. (2021). Clinical Update: The Role of Family Accommodation in Youth Anxiety Treatment Outcomes. Evidence-Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 1-11.‏
Zilcha-Mano, S., Wallace, M. L., Brown, P. J., Sneed, J., Roose, S. P., & Rutherford, B. R. (2021). Who benefits most from expectancy effects? A combined neuroimaging and antidepressant trial in depressed older adults. Translational psychiatry, 11(1), 1-5.‏
Grossman Giron, A., Tzur Bitan, D., Zilcha-Mano, S., Nitzan, U., Mendlovic, S., & Maoz, H. (2021). Case Report: Oxytocin and its association with psychotherapy process and outcome. Frontiers in psychiatry, 1549.‏
Bar-Sella, A., Randall, A. K., & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2021). Understanding interdependence of patients’ and therapists’ affect experiencing: Examination at sample and individual difference levels.
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Zilcha-Mano, S., Wang, X., Wajsbrot, D.B., Boucher, M., Pappadopulos, E., Fine, S.A., Rutherford, BR. Trajectories of Function and Symptom Change in Desvenlafaxine Clinical Trials: Toward Personalized Treatment for Depression. Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology.
Deres-Cohen, K., Lipsitz-Odess, I., Fisher, H., Ramseyer, F. T., Lutz, W., & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2021). Shedding light on the effects of supportive techniques on nonverbal synchrony and their moderators in psychotherapy for depression. Psychotherapy Research, 1-14.‏
Shani, R., Tal, S., Derakshan, N., Cohen, N., Enock, P. M., McNally, R. J., … & Okon-Singer, H. (2021). Personalized cognitive training: Protocol for individual-level meta-analysis implementing machine learning methods. Journal of psychiatric research, 138, 342-348.‏
Lipsitz‐Odess, I., Fisher, H., Kartaginer, O., Leibovich, L., & Zilcha‐Mano, S. (2021). When less is more: The perception of psychotherapy techniques as a function of patient personality disorder. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice.
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Rutherford, B. R., Zilcha‐Mano, S., Chrisanthopolous, M., Salzman, C., Zhu, C., Cimino, N., … & Roose, S. P. (2021). Symptom profiles and treatment status of older adults with chronic post‐traumatic stress disorder. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.‏
Lebowitz, E. R., Zilcha‐Mano, S., Orbach, M., Shimshoni, Y., & Silverman, W. K. (2021). Moderators of response to child‐based and parent‐based child anxiety treatment: a machine learning‐based analysis. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
Zhu, X., Suarez‐Jimenez, B., Zilcha‐Mano, S., Lazarov, A., Arnon, S., Lowell, A. L., … & Neria, Y. (2021). Neural changes following equine‐assisted therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder: A longitudinal multimodal imaging study. Human Brain Mapping.
Lebowitz, M. S., Dolev-Amit, T., & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2021). Relationships of biomedical beliefs about depression to treatment-related expectancies in a treatment-seeking sample. Psychotherapy.
Kivlihan, M., Cohen, K., Zilcha-Mano, S., Palgi, S., Zilberstein, A. (2021). Examining State and Trait Alliance in Group Therapy: A Within-Person and Between-Persons Actor-Partner Interdependence Model. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice, 31 pages.
Front, O., Yaffe, L., Wisman H., Viksman P., Kaplan H. & Zilcha-Mano, S (2021). Insight as a dual-perspective construct: Convergence between patients’ and professional evaluators’ perspective on baseline level of insight and on changes in insight. Psychotherapy, 32 pages.
Zilka, G. C., Dolev, T., Ben-David, T., & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2021). From Risk to Advantage: The Role of Active Mediation in the Viewing of Big Brother by Children and Pre-adolescents. Psychological Studies, 66(1), 73-84.
Zilcha-Mano, S., Goldstein, P., Dolev-Amit, T., & Shamay-Tsoory, S. (2021). Oxytocin synchrony between patients and therapists as a mechanism underlying effective psychotherapy for depression. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 89(1), 49.
Dolev-Amit, T., Nof, A., Asaad, A., Tchizick, A., & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2021). The melody of ruptures: identifying ruptures through acoustic markers. Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 1-20.
Prout, T. A., Di Giuseppe, M., Zilcha-Mano, S., Perry, J. C., Conversano, C. (2021). Psychometric Properties of the Defense Mechanisms Rating Scales-Self-Report-30 (DMRS-SR-30): Internal consistency, Validity and Factor Structure. Journal of Personality As

2020

Zilcha-Mano, S., Shimshoni, Y., Silverman, W. K., & Lebowitz, E. R. (2020). Parent-Child Agreement on Family Accommodation Differentially Predicts Outcomes of Child-Based and Parent-Based Child Anxiety Treatment. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 1-13.
Zilcha-Mano, S., & Webb, C. A. (2020). Disentangling trait-like between-individual vs. state-like within-individual effects in studying the mechanisms of change in CBT. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11.
Cohen, K., Ramseyer, F.T., Tal, S., Zilcha-Mano, S. (2020). The association between motion synchrony and alliance is more complex than we thought: Disentangling the state-like and trait-like effects of the alliance. Clinical Psychological Science, 23 pages.
Dolev-Amit, T., Eubanks, C. F., & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2020). A moderating factor for patients with vindictive interpersonal problems. Psychotherapy.
Nof, A., Amir, O., Goldstein, P., & Zilcha Mano, S. (2020). What Do These Sounds Tell Us About the therapeutic Alliance: Acoustic Markers as Predictors of Alliance. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy.
Ben David-Sela, T., Dolev-Amit, T., Eubanks, C. F., & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2020). Achieving successful resolution of alliance ruptures: for whom and when?. Psychotherapy Research, 1-12.
Prout, T. A., Zilcha-Mano, S., Aafjes-van Doorn, K., Békés, V., Christman-Cohen, I., Whistler, K., … & Di Giuseppe, M. (2020). Identifying predictors of psychological distress during COVID-19: a machine learning approach. Frontiers in psychology, 11.
Brewster, K., Wall, M., Stein, A., Zilcha-Mano, S., & Rutherford, B. R. (2020). Age-Related Hearing Loss, Late-Life Depression, and Risk for Incident Dementia in Older Adults. The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 28(4), S90-S93.
Solomonov, N., Victoria, L. W., Dunlop, K., Respino, M., Hoptman, M. J., Zilcha-Mano, S., … & Alexopoulos, G. S. (2020). Resting State Functional Connectivity and Outcomes of Psychotherapies for Late-life Depression. The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.
Dolev-Amit, T., Leibovich, L., & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2020). Repairing alliance ruptures using supportive techniques in telepsychotherapy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 1-14.
Flückiger, C., Rubel, J., Del Re, A. C., Horvath, A. O., Wampold, B. E., Crits-Christoph, P., … & Errázuriz, P. (2020). The reciprocal relationship between alliance and early treatment symptoms: A two-stage individual participant data meta-analysis. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 88(9), 829.
Fisher, S., Guralnik, T., Fonagy, P., & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2020). Let’s face it: video conferencing psychotherapy requires the extensive use of ostensive cues. Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 1-17.
Di Giuseppe, M., Zilcha-Mano, S., Prout, T. A., Perry, J. C., Orrù, G., & Conversano, C. (2020). Psychological Impact of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Among Italians During the First Week of Lockdown. Front. Psychiatry, 11, 576597.
Zilcha-Mano, S (2020). Toward personalized psychotherapy: The importance of the trait-like / state-like distinction for understanding therapeutic change. American Psychologist.
Zilcha-Mano, S. & Ramseyer, F.T. (2020). Innovative Approaches to Exploring Processes of Change in Counseling Psychology: Insights and Guidelines for Future Research. Journal of Counseling Psychology. (Special Issue).
Ben David-Sela, T., Nof, A., & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2020). “We can work it out”: Working through termination ruptures. Psychotherapy.
Dolev-Amit, T., Rubin, A., & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2020). Is Awareness of Strengths Intervention Sufficient to Cultivate Wellbeing and Other Positive Outcomes?. Journal of Happiness Studies, 1-22.
Zilcha-Mano, S., Zhu, X., Suarez-Jimenez, B., Alison, P., Tal, S., Sara, S., … & Neria, Y. (2020). Diagnostic and Predictive Neuroimaging Biomarkers for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging.
Zilcha-Mano, S., Shimshoni, Y., Silverman, W. K., & Lebowitz, E. R. (2020). Parent-Child Agreement on Family Accommodation Differentially Predicts Outcomes of Child-Based and Parent-Based Child Anxiety Treatment.Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 1-13.
Tzur Bitan, D., Zilcha-Mano, S., Asper, A., & Bloch, Y (2020). Clinical demonstration of the potential of parental feedback in reducing deterioration during group psychotherapy with children. Journal of Mental and Nervous Diseases.
Keefe, J. R., McMain, S. F., McCarthy, K. S., Zilcha-Mano, S., Dinger, U., Sahin, Z., … & Barber, J. P. (2020). A meta-analysis of psychodynamic treatments for borderline and cluster C personality disorders. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 11(3), 157.
Solomonov, N., Kuprian, N., Zilcha-Mano, S., Muran, J. C., & Barber, J. P. (2020). Comparing the interpersonal profiles of obsessive-compulsive personality disorder and avoidant personality disorder: Are there homogeneous profiles or interpersonal subtypes?. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment.
Leibovich, L., Wachtel, P. L., Nof, A., & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2020). “Take a sad song and make it better”: What makes an interpretation growth facilitating for the patient?. Psychotherapy.
Zilcha-Mano, S., Shamay-Tsoory, S., Dolev-Amit, T., Zagoory-Sharon, O., & Feldman, R. (2020). Oxytocin as a biomarker of the formation of therapeutic alliance in psychotherapy and counseling psychology. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 67(4), 523.
Minges, M., Zilcha-Mano, S., Aafjes-van Doorn, K., Gorman, B., & Barber, J. P. (2020). Interpersonal problems of cocaine dependent adults differ from those of a normative sample. Addiction Research & Theory, 28(5), 443-455.
Rubel, J. A., Zilcha-Mano, S., Giesemann, J., Prinz, J., & Lutz, W. (2020). Predicting personalized process-outcome associations in psychotherapy using machine learning approaches—A demonstration. Psychotherapy Research, 30(3), 300-309.
Leibovich, L., Front, O., McCarthy, K., Zilcha-Mano, S. (2020). How Supportive Techniques Bring About Therapeutic Change: The Role of Therapeutic Alliance as a Potential Mediator. Psychotherapy.

2019

Bakbani-Elkayam, S., Dolev-Amit, T., Hemed, E., Zilcha-Mano, S., & Eitam, B. (2019). Intact Motivation in Major Depression: Normative Responsiveness to Action-Effectiveness Demonstrated in a Clinical Sample. Available at SSRN 3472084.
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Zilcha-Mano, S., Eubanks, C.F., Bloch-Elkouby, S., & Muran, J.C. (2019). Can we agree we just had a rupture? Patient-therapist congruence on ruptures and its effects on outcome in brief relational therapy vs. cognitive behavioral therapy. Journal of Counseling Psychology.
Shani, R., Tal, S., Zilcha-Mano, S., & Okon-Singer, H. (2019). Can machine learning approaches lead toward personalized cognitive training?. Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 13, 64.
Zilcha-Mano, S., Errázuriz, P., Yaffe-Herbst, L., German, R. E., & DeRubeis, R. J. (2019). Are there any robust predictors of “sudden gainers,” and how is sustained improvement in treatment outcome achieved following a gain?.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology, 87(6), 491.
Nof, A., Leibovich, L., Harel, J., & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2019). If you believe that breaking is possible, believe also that fixing is possible: a framework for ruptures and repairs in child psychotherapy. Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process and Outcome, 22(1).
Penedo, J. M. G., Zilcha-Mano, S., & Roussos, A. (2019). Interpersonal Profiles in Emotional Disorders Predict the Importance of Alliance Negotiation for Early Treatment Outcome.
Zilcha-Mano, S., Wager, T., Wang, Z., Wall, M., Roose, S. P., Brown, P., & Rutherford, B. R. (2019). Neural mechanisms of expectancy-based placebo effects in antidepressant clinical trials. Journal of psychiatric research.
Aafjes-van Doorn, K., Zilcha-Mano, S., Graham, K., Caldari, A., Barber, J. P., Chambless, D. L., & Milrod, B. (2019). The Role of Safety Behaviors in Panic Disorder Treatment: Self-Regulation or Self-Defeat?. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 1-10.
Cohen, K., Leibovich, L., Markin, R., & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2019). The process of change in psychotherapy with a pregnant patient following perinatal losses: An analysis of a case study. Journal of Clinical Psychology.
Zilcha-Mano, S., Eubanks, C. F., & Muran, C. J. Sudden gains in the alliance in cognitive behavioral therapy vs. alliance-focused therapy. (2019). Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.
Zilcha-Mano, S., Roose, S. P., Brown, P. J., & Rutherford, B. R. (2019). Not just nonspecific factors: the roles of alliance and expectancy in treatment, and their neurobiological underpinnings. Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 12, 293.

2018

Zilcha-Mano, S., Dolev, T., Leibovich, L., & Barber, J. P. (2018). Identifying the most suitable treatment for depression based on patients’ attachment: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial of supportive-expressive vs. supportive treatments. BMC psychiatry, 18(1), 362.‏
Adler, G., Shahar, B., Dolev, T., & & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2018). The development of the working alliance and its ability to predict outcome in emotion-focused therapy for social anxiety disorder. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.
Dolev, T., & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2018). The role of the therapeutic relationship in the association between interpersonal behaviors and outcome: Comparison of two competing models. Psychotherapy Research, 1-12.
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Tzur Bitan, D., Zilcha-Mano, S., Ganor, O., Biran, L., & Bloch, Y. (2018). Routine measurement and feedback in support groups for parents of children with autistic spectrum disorder. Psychotherapy, 55(2), 191.‏
Dolev, T., Zilcha-Mano, S., Chui, H., Barrett, M. S., McCarthy, K. S., & Barber, J. P. (2018). The process of change in ethnic minority males undergoing psychodynamic psychotherapy: a detailed comparison of two cases. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 32(2), 157-180.‏
Zilcha-Mano, S., Roose, S. P., Brown, P., & Rutherford, B. R (2018). Abrupt Symptom Improvements in Antidepressant Clinical Trials: Transient Placebo Effects or Therapeutic Reality? Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.
Leibovich, L., Nof, A., Auerbach-Barber, S,‏ & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2018). A practical suggestion for strengthening the alliance based on a supportive-expressive framework. Psychotherapy.
Bat-Or, M., & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2018). The Art Therapy Working Alliance Inventory: The Development of a Measure. International Journal of Art Therapy.
Zilcha-Mano, S., Brown, P., Roose, S. P., Cappetta, K., & Rutherford, B. R. (2018). Optimizing Patient Expectancy in the Pharmacologic Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder. Psychological Medicine.
Levi, E., Collins-Keiner, N., Dolev, T. & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2018). Tourism and Clinical Depression. Letter to the Editor reporting empirical study. Annals of Tourism Research.
Zilcha-Mano, S. (2018). Major developments in methods addressing for whom psychotherapy may work and why. Psychotherapy Research, 1-16.‏
Rubel, J. A., Zilcha-Mano, S., Feils-Klaus, V., & Lutz, W. (2018). Session-to-session effects of alliance ruptures in outpatient CBT: Within-and between-patient associations. Journal of consulting and clinical psychology, 86(4), 354.‏
Haberman, A., Shahar, B., Bar-Kalifa, E., Zilcha-Mano, S., & Diamond, G. M. (2018). Exploring the process of change in emotion-focused therapy for social anxiety. Psychotherapy Research, 1-11.‏
Zilcha-Mano, S., Roose, S. P., Brown, P. J., & Rutherford, B. R. (2018). A machine learning approach to identifying placebo responders in late-life depression trials. The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 26(6), 669-677.
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Zilcha-Mano, S., Porat, Y., Dolev, T., & Shamay-Tsoory, S. (2018). Oxytocin as a Neurobiological Marker of Ruptures in the Working Alliance. Psychotherapy and psychosomatics, 87(2), 126-127.‏
Pirson, M. A., Langer, E., & Zilcha, S. (2018). Enabling a Socio-cognitive Perspective of Mindfulness: The Development and Validation of the Langer Mindfulness Scale. Journal of Adult Development, 1-18.
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Errázuriz, P., & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2018).In psychotherapy with severe patients discouraging news may be worse than no news: The impact of providing feedback to therapists on psychotherapy outcome, session attendance, and the alliance. Journal of consulting and clinical psychology, 86(2), 125.‏
Markin, R. D., & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2018). Cultural processes in psychotherapy for perinatal loss: Breaking the cultural taboo against perinatal grief. Psychotherapy, 55(1), 20.‏
Zilcha-Mano, S., Muran, J. C., Eubanks, C. F., Safran, J. D., & Winston, A. (2018). Not just a non-specific factor: Moderators of the effect of within-and between-clients alliance on outcome in CBT. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 42(2), 146-158.‏
Zilcha-Mano, S., Lipsitz, I., & Errázuriz, P. (2018). When is it effective to focus on the alliance? Analysis of a within-client moderator. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 42(2), 159-171.‏
Rubin, A., Dolev, T., & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2018). Patient demographics and psychological functioning as predictors of unilateral termination of psychodynamic therapy. Psychotherapy Research, 28(5), 672-684.‏
Zilcha-Mano, S., Muran, C. J., Eubanks-Carter. C. F., Safran, J., & Winston. A. (2018). When can therapists’ estimation of treatment process predict patients’ ratings of outcome? The case of the working alliance. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.

2017

Leibovich, L., & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2017). Integration and clinical demonstration of active ingredients of short-term psychodynamic therapy for depression. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 27(1), 93.‏
Zilcha-Mano, S. (2017). Effects of Western and Eastern Perspectives of Mindfulness-Based Interventions during Pregnancy on Birth Outcomes, Maternal Physical Health, and Maternal Mental Health. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 26(6), 1746-1748.‏
Zilcha-Mano, S. (2017).Is the alliance really therapeutic? Revisiting this question in light of recent methodological advances. American Psychologist, 72(4), 311.‏
Zilcha-Mano, S. (2017). Resolution of alliance ruptures: the special case of animal-assisted psychotherapy. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 22(1), 34-45.‏
Barber, J. P., Zilcha-Mano, S., & Constantino, M. J. (2017). Psychodynamic and Interpersonal Psychotherapies. The Oxford Handbook of Mood Disorders, 447.‏
Nof, A., Leibovich, L., & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2017). Supportive-expressive interventions in working through treatment termination. Psychotherapy, 54(1), 29.
Zilcha-Mano, S., & Errá¡zuriz, P. (2017). Early development of mechanisms of change as a predictor of subsequent change and treatment outcome: The case of working alliance. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.
Zilcha-Mano, S., Roose, S. P., Brown, P., & Rutherford, B. R. (2017). Early symptom trajectories as predictors of treatment outcome for citalopram versus placebo. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.

2016

Stern-Ellran, K., Zilcha-Mano, S., Sebba, R., & Levit-Binnun, N. (2016). Disruptive Effects of a Colorful versus Non-Colorful Play Area on the Performance of Preschoolers during Structured Play – a Pilot Study. Frontiers.
Zilcha-Mano, S. & Barber, J. P. (2016). Facilitating the sense of feeling understood in patients with maladaptive interpersonal relationships. In Tishby., O and Wiseman, H., (Eds.), Developing the therapeutic relationship – integrating case studies, research and practice‏. APA Books.
Zilcha-Mano, S., Keefe, J. R., Chui, H., Rubin, A., Barrett, M. S., & Barber, J. P. (2016). Reducing Dropout in Treatment for Depression: Translating Dropout Predictors Into Individualized Treatment Recommendations. The Journal of clinical psychiatry, 77(12).
Zilcha-Mano, S. (2016). New analytic strategies help answer the controversial question of whether alliance is therapeutic in itself. World Psychiatry, 15(1), 84-85.
Kanat-Maymon, Y., Antebi, A., & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2016). Basic psychological need fulfillment in human-pet relationship and well-being. Personality and Individual Differences, 9, 69-73.
Zilcha-Mano, S., Chui, H., Dolev, T., McCarthy, K. S., Dinger, U., & Barber, J. P. (2016) Changes in causal attributions and relationship representations: Are they specific or common mechanisms in the treatment of depression? Journal of Affective Disorders, 193, 73-80.
Zilcha-Mano, S., Snyder, J., & Silberschatz, G. (2016). The effect of congruence in patient and therapist alliance on patient’s symptomatic levels. Psychotherapy Research, 1-10.
Zilcha-Mano, S., Muran, C. J., Hungr, C., Eubanks-Carter. C. F., Safran, J., & Winston. A. (2016). The relationship between alliance and outcome: Analysis of a two-person perspective on alliance and session outcome. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 84(6), 484-496.
Solonomov, N., Kuprian, N., Zilcha-Mano, S., Gorman S.B., & Barber J. P. (2016). What do psychotherapy experts actually do in their sessions: an analysis of psychotherapy integration in prototypical demonstrations. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 26(2), 202-216.
Chui, H., Zilcha-Mano, S., Dinger, U., Barrett, M. S., & Barber, J. P. (2016). Dependency and Self-Criticism in Treatments for Depression. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1-22.
Zilcha-Mano, S., & Langer, E. (2016). Mindful Attention to Variability Intervention and Successful Pregnancy Outcomes. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1-35.‏
Leibovich, L., & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2016). What is the right time for supportive vs expressive interventions in supervision? An illustration based on a clinical mistake. Psychotherapy, 1-18.

2015

Shahar, B., Szsepsenwol, O., Zilcha‐Mano, S., Haim, N., Zamir, O., Levi‐Yeshuvi, S., & Levit‐Binnun, N. (2015). A wait‐list randomized controlled trial of loving‐kindness meditation program for self‐criticism. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 22(4), 346-3.
Zilcha-Mano, S., Roose, S. P., Barber, J. P., & Rutherford, B. R. (2015). Therapeutic Alliance in Antidepressant Treatment: Cause or Effect of Symptomatic Levels? Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 84(3), 177-182.
Dinger, U., Barrett, M. S., Zimmermann, J., Schauenburg, H., Wright, A. G., Renner, F., Zilcha-Mano, S., & Barber, J. P. (2015).Interpersonal Problems, Dependency, and Self Criticism in Major Depressive Disorder. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 71(1), 93-104.
Zilcha-Mano, S., McCarthy, K. S., Dinger, U., Milrod, B., Chambless, D., & Barber J. P. (2015). Are there subtypes of panic disorder? An interpersonal perspective. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 83, 938-950.
Zilcha-Mano, S., & Errázuriz, P. (2015). One size does not fit all: Examining heterogeneity and identifying moderators of the alliance–outcome association. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 62(4), 579-591.
Zilcha-Mano, S., Solomonov, N., Chui, H., McCarthy, K. S., Barrett, M. S., & Barber, J. P. (2015). Therapist-reported alliance: Is it really a predictor of outcome? Journal of Counseling Psychology, 62(4), 568-578.

2014

Dinger, U., Zilcha‐Mano, S., Dillon, J., & Barber, J. P. (2014). Therapist adherence and competence in psychotherapy research. The encyclopedia of clinical psychology, 1-5.‏
Barber, J. P., Zilcha-Mano, S., Gallop, R., Barrett, M., McCarthy, K. S., & Dinger, U. (2014). The associations among improvement and alliance expectations, alliance during treatment, and treatment outcome for major depressive disorder. Psychotherapy Research, 24, 257-268.
Zilcha-Mano, S., & Barber, J. (2014). Learning from well-trained and experienced dynamic psychotherapists: research on the efficacy of dynamic psychotherapy and its core therapeutic mechanisms. Journal of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 50, 58-88. Invited article.
Kor, A., Zilcha-Mano, S., Fogel, Y., Mikulincer, M., Reid, R. C., & Potenza, M. N. (2014). Psychometric development of the Problematic Pornography Use scale. Addictive Behaviors, 39, 861-868.
Keefe, J., McCarthy, K. S., Dinger, U., Zilcha-Mano, S., & Barber, J. P. (2014). A meta-analytic review of psychodynamic therapies for anxiety disorders. Clinical Psychology Review, 34(4), 309-323.
Zilcha-Mano, S., Dinger, U., McCarthy, K. S., & Barber, J. P. (2014). Does alliance predict symptoms throughout treatment, or is it the other way around? Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 82(6), 931-935.
Zilcha-Mano, S., Dinger, U., McCarthy, K. S., Barrett, M. S., & Barber, J. P. (2014). Changes in well-being and quality of life in a randomized trial comparing dynamic psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy for major depressive disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders, 193, 73–80.
Zilcha-Mano, S. (2014). The effects of mindfulness-based interventions during pregnancy on the mother’s physical and mental health and birth outcomes: integrating Western and Eastern approaches to mindfulness. In E. Langer, (Ed.). Handbook of Mindfulness. Wiley-Blackwell, 881-897.
Litman-Ovadia, H., Zilcha-Mano, S., & Langer, E. Vocational personalities and Mindfulness. (2014). Journal of Employment Counseling, 51(4), 170-179.
Zilcha-Mano, S., McCarthy, K. S., Dinger, U., & Barber, J. P. (2014). To what extent is alliance affected by transference? An empirical exploration. Psychotherapy, 51(3), 424-433.
Zilcha-Mano, S., & Barber, J. P. (2014). Instability of Depression Severity at Intake as a Moderator of Outcome in the Treatment for Major Depressive Disorder. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 83(6), 382-383.

2013

Lev-Ari, S., Zilcha-Mano, S., Rivo, L., Geva, R., & Ron, I. (2013). A prospective pilot clinical trial of “The work” meditation technique for survivors of breast cancer. European Journal of Integrative Medicine, 5(6), 487-494.‏
Dinger, U., Zilcha-Mano, S., McCarthy, K. S., Barrett, M. S., & Barber, J. P. (2013). Interpersonal problems as predictors of alliance, symptomatic improvement and premature termination in treatment of depression. Journal of Affective Disorders, 151, 800-803.
Zilcha-Mano, S. (2013). Animal Assisted Psychotherapy from an attachment perspective. In N. Parish-Plass, (Ed.). Animal-Assisted Psychotherapy: Theory, Issues and Practice. Purdue University Press, 111-145.
Lev-Ari, S., Zilcha-Mano, S., Rivo, L., Geva, R., & Ron, I. (2013). Effects of “The Work” Meditation on Psychopathologic Symptoms: A Pilot Study European Journal of Integrative Medicine, 5(6), 487-494.‏
Leufke, R., Zilcha-Mano, S., Feld, A., & Lev-ari, S. (2013). Effects of “The Work” Meditation on Psychopathologic Symptoms: A Pilot Study. Alternative and Complementary Therapies, 19(3), 147-152.

2012

Pirson, M., Langer, E. J., Bodner, T., & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2012). The development and validation of the Langer mindfulness scale-enabling a socio-cognitive perspective of mindfulness in organizational contexts. Fordham University Schools of Business Research Paper.‏
Zilcha-Mano, S., Mikulincer, M., & Shaver, P. R. (2012). Pets as safe havens and secure bases: The moderating role of Pet Attachment Orientations. Journal of Research in Personality, 46, 571-580.

2011

Zilcha-Mano, S., Mikulincer, M., & Shaver, P. R. (2011). An attachment perspective on human-pet relationships: Conceptualization and assessment of Pet Attachment Orientations. Journal of Research in Personality, 45(4), 345-357.
Zilcha-Mano, S., Mikulincer, M., & Shaver, P. R. (2011). Pet in the therapy room: An attachment perspective on animal-assisted therapy. Attachment and Human Development, 13(6), 541-561.