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Overview

Adam O. Horvath is affiliated with Simon Fraser University in Canada and specializes in the field of Psychology, with a focus on Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Applied Psychology, Language and Linguistics, and Aerospace Engineering.

Their research extensively covers topics such as Attachment and Relationship Dynamics, Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications, Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics, Personality Disorders and Psychopathology, Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies, Psychological Testing and Assessment, and Mental Health Research Topics.

Horvath has published multiple research papers, with recent works including:

  • The reciprocal relationship between alliance and early treatment symptoms: A two-stage individual participant data meta-analysis, 2020, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
  • Examining therapist effects in the alliance-outcome relationship: A multilevel meta-analysis, 2021, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
  • Assessing the alliance-outcome association adjusted for patient characteristics and treatment processes: A meta-analytic summary of direct comparisons, 2020, Journal of Counseling Psychology
  • Getting to "Yes": Overcoming Client Reluctance to Engage in Chair Work, 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
  • The evolution of patients' concept of the alliance and its relation to outcome: A dynamic latent-class structural equation modeling approach, 2021, Journal of Counseling Psychology

The venues where Horvath frequently publishes include:

  • Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
  • Journal of Counseling Psychology
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Communication & Medicine
  • International Journal of Business and Management Invention

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations are:

  • Christoph Flückiger
  • Peter Muntigl
  • A. C. Del Re
  • Bruce E. Wampold
  • Julian Rubel

In addition to journal articles, Horvath has contributed to book publications. Notably, in 2024, they published "Innovative studies in organized helping: Transforming relations, emotions and referents through sequentially structured practices" with Frontiers Media.

Best Publications

  • Development and validation of the Working Alliance Inventory.

    Adam O. Horvath;Leslie S. Greenberg

  • Relation between Working Alliance and Outcome in Psychotherapy: A Meta-Analysis.

    Adam O. Horvath;B. Dianne Symonds

  • Alliance in individual psychotherapy.

    Adam O. Horvath;AC Del Re;Christoph Flückiger;Dianne B. Symonds

  • The alliance in adult psychotherapy: A meta-analytic synthesis.

    Christoph Flückiger;A. C. Del Re;Bruce E. Wampold;Adam O. Horvath

  • The role of the therapeutic alliance in psychotherapy.

    Adam O. Horvath;Lester Luborsky

  • The working alliance: Theory, research, and practice.

    Adam O. Horvath;Leslie S. Greenberg

  • How central is the alliance in psychotherapy? A multilevel longitudinal meta-analysis.

    Christoph Flückiger;A. C. Del Re;Bruce E. Wampold;Dianne Symonds

  • The development of the Working Alliance Inventory.

    Adam O. Horvath;Leslie S. Greenberg

  • The therapeutic relationship.

    Alexandra Bachelor;Adam Horvath

  • Therapist effects in the therapeutic alliance–outcome relationship: A restricted-maximum likelihood meta-analysis☆

    A.C. Del Re;Christoph Flückiger;Adam O. Horvath;Dianne Symonds

  • The therapeutic relationship : From transference to alliance

    Adam O. Horvath

  • The therapeutic relationship: Research and theory : An introduction to the Special Issue

    Adam O. Horvath

  • The alliance in context: Accomplishments, challenges, and future directions

    Adam O. Horvath

  • Empirical validation of Bordin's pantheoretical model of the alliance: The Working Alliance Inventory perspective.

    Adam O. Horvath

  • System for Observing Family Therapy Alliances: A Tool for Research and Practice.

    Myrna L. Friedlander;Valentín Escudero;Adam O. Horvath;Laurie Heatherington

  • Research on the alliance.

    Adam O. Horvath

  • The Great Psychotherapy Debate: Models Methods and Findings

    A. O. Horvath

  • Optimizing the alliance in couple therapy.

    Dianne Symonds;Adam O. Horvath

  • How collaboration in therapy becomes therapeutic: the therapeutic collaboration coding system.

    Eugénia Ribeiro;António P. Ribeiro;Miguel M. Gonçalves;Adam O. Horvath

  • The reciprocal relationship between alliance and early treatment symptoms: A two-stage individual participant data meta-analysis.

    Christoph Flückiger;Julian Rubel;A. C. Del Re;Adam O. Horvath

  • Research on the alliance: Knowledge in search of a theory

    Adam O. Horvath

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce E. Wampold
Bruce E. Wampold University of Wisconsin–Madison
Leslie S. Greenberg
Leslie S. Greenberg York University
William B. Stiles
William B. Stiles Miami University
Lynne Angus
Lynne Angus York University
Lester Luborsky
Lester Luborsky University of Pennsylvania
Jonathan D. Huppert
Jonathan D. Huppert Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Myrna L. Friedlander
Myrna L. Friedlander University at Albany, State University of New York
Paul Crits-Christoph
Paul Crits-Christoph University of Pennsylvania
Matthew P. Martens
Matthew P. Martens University of Missouri
Julian A. Rubel
Julian A. Rubel Osnabrück University

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