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Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics

Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics is a research topic within Clinical Psychology. Science Explorer counts 20k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the Open Dialogue Approach and its application in mental health treatment, emphasizing solution-focused brief therapy, narrative analysis, and family therapy. It delves into the principles, outcomes, and long-term stability of acute psychosis treatment, as well as the use of dialogical therapy and social constructionism in therapeutic conversations. The cluster also examines the effectiveness of different methodologies and interventions in addressing psychosis and promoting mental health within communities.

  • Open Dialogue Approach
  • Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
  • Narrative Analysis
  • Family Therapy
  • Mental Health
  • Social Constructionism
  • Therapeutic Conversation
  • Dialogical Therapy
  • Psychosis Treatment
  • Community Care
Research works
20k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-1%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
45% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics

Which countries lead Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (921 and 394 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 921 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 394 works
  3. 3 Canada 140 works
  4. 4 Australia 128 works
  5. 5 Germany 92 works
  6. 6 Norway 88 works
  7. 7 China 79 works
  8. 8 Spain 71 works
  9. 9 Italy 62 works
  10. 10 Denmark 59 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 45.3%United Kingdom: 19.4%Canada: 6.9%Australia: 6.3%6 others listed: 22.2%45%largest
United States921 · 45.3%United Kingdom394 · 19.4%Canada140 · 6.9%Australia128 · 6.3%6 others listed452 · 22.2%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Toronto publishes the most Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics research, followed by VID Specialized University and Aalborg University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of TorontoCanada 17 works
  2. 2 VID Specialized UniversityNorway 15 works
  3. 3 Aalborg UniversityDenmark 13 works
  4. 4 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 12 works
  5. 5 Health AffairsUnited States 11 works
  6. 6 Aarhus UniversityDenmark 11 works
  7. 7 University of HelsinkiFinland 11 works
  8. 8 Film IndependentUnited States 11 works
  9. 9 University of OsloNorway 11 works
  10. 10 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 10 works

Who are the leading researchers in Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics include Albert Bandura, Dan J. Stein and Virginia Braun.

  1. 1 Albert Bandura United States 370k citations
  2. 2 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  3. 3 Virginia Braun New Zealand 286k citations
  4. 4 Victoria Clarke United Kingdom 285k citations
  5. 5 Pierre Bourdıeu France 268k citations
  6. 6 Paul M. Thompson United States 196k citations
  7. 7 John W. Creswell United States 186k citations
  8. 8 Roy Frederick Baumeister United States 183k citations
  9. 9 Chris Frith United Kingdom 175k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics?

The most cited paper in Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics is "Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: An Experiential Approach to Behavior Change" (Steven C. Hayes, Kirk D. Strosahl, Kelly G. Wilson, 1999), with 5,970 citations. Next come "Transtheoretical therapy: Toward a more integrative model of change." (3,953) and "Self-schemata and processing information about the self." (3,806).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: An Experiential Approach to Behavior Change Steven C. Hayes, Kirk D. Strosahl, Kelly G. Wilson 15 Aug 1999 5,970
2 Transtheoretical therapy: Toward a more integrative model of change. James O. Prochaska, Carlo C. DiClemente · Psychotherapy Open access 1982 3,953
3 Self-schemata and processing information about the self. Hazel Rose Markus · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Feb 1977 3,806
4 THE McMASTER FAMILY ASSESSMENT DEVICE* Nathan B. Epstein, Lawrence M. Baldwin, Duane S. Bishop · Journal of Marital and Family Therapy Apr 1983 3,532
5 Relation of the therapeutic alliance with outcome and other variables: A meta-analytic review. Daniel Martin, John P. Garske, M. Katherine Davis · Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 2000 3,290
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Where is Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics research done?

The largest centres of Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Oslo (Norway) and Melbourne (Australia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Oslo.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 108 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 57 works
  3. 3 OsloNorway 38 works
  4. 4 MelbourneAustralia 29 works
  5. 5 Los AngelesUnited States 28 works
  6. 6 TorontoCanada 27 works
  7. 7 PhiladelphiaUnited States 22 works
  8. 8 MadridSpain 21 works
  9. 9 Washington D.C.United States 20 works
  10. 10 SantiagoChile 19 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. OsloNO · 37.8 works9.2×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Toronto, University of Oslo and King's College London score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%mean 12.27%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of OsloKing's College LondonUniversity of TorontoUniversity of Helsinki
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Citation excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of TorontoCanada 80.013.0%3.3×17 +5.3%
2University of OsloNorway 69.519.0%6.5×11 -10.2%
3King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 63.913.5%4.3×9 +108.6%
4University of HelsinkiFinland 62.711.3%6.0×11 +1.6%
5University of JyväskyläFinland 58.310.2%19.9×9 +8.5%
6University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom 57.613.5%4.4×9 +4.2%
7VID Specialized UniversityNorway 54.73.7%232.5×15 +176.2%
8University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 54.010.9%2.7×10 +202.5%
9Indiana UniversityUnited States 49.612.3%3.9×10 +7.3%
10University College LondonUnited Kingdom 46.915.3%2.3×10 -17.3%

Universities only. The score blends citation excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics, country by country

Is Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0099% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics0.013% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics10.2% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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