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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - APA Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research
  • 1990 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Bruce E. Wampold is a researcher affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their primary field of study is Psychology, with a particular focus on Clinical Psychology. Their research also covers subfields including Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Applied Psychology, and General Health Professions.

The main topics of their work encompass Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications, Mental Health Research Topics, Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes, Personality Disorders and Psychopathology, Attachment and Relationship Dynamics, Treatment of Major Depression, and Digital Mental Health Interventions.

Among their recent papers are:

  • The reciprocal relationship between alliance and early treatment symptoms: A two-stage individual participant data meta-analysis., 2020, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
  • The alliance in mental health care: conceptualization, evidence and clinical applications, 2023, World Psychiatry
  • 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
  • It's the therapist and the treatment: The structure of common therapeutic relationship factors, 2021, Psychotherapy Research

Wampold frequently publishes in the following academic venues:

  • Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
  • Journal of Counseling Psychology
  • Psychotherapy Research
  • Psychotherapy
  • Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment

The scientist often collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Pål Ulvenes
  • Christoph Flückiger
  • Helene Amundsen Nissen-Lie
  • Andreas Høstmælingen
  • Mikkel Eielsen

Bruce E. Wampold has been recognized with the APA Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research in 2007 and has been a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) since 1990.

Best Publications

  • The Great Psychotherapy Debate: Models, Methods and Findings

    Bruce E. Wampold

  • Research Design in Counseling

    P. Paul Heppner;Dennis M. Kivlighan;Bruce E. Wampold

  • How important are the common factors in psychotherapy? An update.

    Bruce E. Wampold

  • Evidence-based therapy relationships: research conclusions and clinical practices.

    John C. Norcross;Bruce E. Wampold

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

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

  • A meta-analysis of outcome studies comparing bona fide psychotherapies: Empiricially, "all must have prizes."

    Bruce E. Wampold;Gregory W. Mondin;Marcia Moody;Frederick Stich

  • The Great Psychotherapy Debate

    Bruce E. Wampold;Zac E. Imel

  • Untangling the alliance-outcome correlation: exploring the relative importance of therapist and patient variability in the alliance.

    Scott A. Baldwin;Bruce E. Wampold;Zac E. Imel

  • Mindfulness-based interventions for psychiatric disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Simon B. Goldberg;Raymond P. Tucker;Preston A. Greene;Richard J. Davidson

  • Where oh where are the specific ingredients? A meta-analysis of component studies in counseling and psychotherapy.

    Hyun-nie Ahn;Bruce E. Wampold

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

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

  • Culturally adapted psychotherapy and the legitimacy of myth: a direct-comparison meta-analysis.

    Steven G. Benish;Stephen Quintana;Bruce E. Wampold

  • The heart and soul of change: Delivering what works in therapy, 2nd ed.

    Barry L. Duncan;Scott D. Miller;Bruce E. Wampold;Mark A. Hubble

  • Estimating Variability in Outcomes Attributable to Therapists: A Naturalistic Study of Outcomes in Managed Care.

    Bruce E Wampold;George S Jeb Brown

  • Let's Face Facts: Common Factors Are More Potent Than Specific Therapy Ingredients

    Stanley B. Messer;Bruce E. Wampold

  • Expanding the lens of evidence-based practice in psychotherapy: a common factors perspective.

    Kevin M. Laska;Alan S. Gurman;Bruce E. Wampold

  • Psychotherapy: The humanistic (and effective) treatment.

    Bruce E. Wampold

  • 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

  • Sequential Analysis of Conflict and Accord in Distressed and Nondistressed Marital Partners.

    Gayla Margolin;Bruce E. Wampold

  • Implications of Placebo and Nocebo Effects for Clinical Practice: Expert Consensus.

    Andrea W M Evers;Luana Colloca;Charlotte Blease;Marco Annoni

  • The relative efficacy of bona fide psychotherapies for treating post-traumatic stress disorder: a meta-analysis of direct comparisons

    Steven G. Benish;Zac E. Imel;Bruce E. Wampold

Frequent Co-Authors

Zac E. Imel
Zac E. Imel University of Utah
Asle Hoffart
Asle Hoffart University of Oslo
Adam O. Horvath
Adam O. Horvath Simon Fraser University
Stephanie L. Budge
Stephanie L. Budge University of Wisconsin–Madison
Simon B. Goldberg
Simon B. Goldberg University of Wisconsin–Madison
Donald R. Atkinson
Donald R. Atkinson University of California, Santa Barbara
John C. Norcross
John C. Norcross University of Scranton
Rodney K. Goodyear
Rodney K. Goodyear University of Redlands
Jesse Owen
Jesse Owen University of Denver
Terence J. G. Tracey
Terence J. G. Tracey Arizona State University

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