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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2000 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Robert Elliott is affiliated with the University of Strathclyde in the United Kingdom and specializes in the field of psychology, with a focus on clinical psychology. Their research covers various subfields, including social psychology, psychiatry and mental health, philosophy, and general health professions.

Their primary research topics include psychotherapy techniques and applications, counseling, therapy and family dynamics, child therapy and development, psychology, coaching and therapy, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, attachment and relationship dynamics, and mental health and psychiatry.

Several recent papers authored or co-authored by Robert Elliott illustrate their research interests:

  • "Person-centred experiential therapy versus cognitive behavioural therapy delivered in the English Improving Access to Psychological Therapies service for the treatment of moderate or severe depression (PRaCTICED): a pragmatic, randomised, non-inferiority trial" (2021) published in The Lancet Psychiatry
  • "The Strathclyde Inventory: Development of a Brief Instrument for Assessing Outcome in Counseling According to Rogers' Concept of the Fully Functioning Person" (2021) published in Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development
  • "Efficacy of Emotion-Focused Parenting Programs for Children's Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms: A Randomized Clinical Study" (2022) published in Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology
  • "Relational dialogue in emotion-focused therapy" (2020) published in Journal of Clinical Psychology
  • "Client-identified outcomes of individual psychotherapy: a qualitative meta-analysis" (2024) published in The Lancet Psychiatry

Robert Elliott frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Jeanne C. Watson, Rhonda N. Goldman, Leslie S. Greenberg, Michaela Ladmanová, and Tomáš Řiháček.

Their work is often published in the following venues:

  • Psychotherapy Research
  • Journal of Marital and Family Therapy
  • The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Counselling and Psychotherapy Research
  • Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies

Robert Elliott has contributed to book publications, with a notable work titled Learning emotion-focused therapy: A comprehensive guide (2nd ed.) scheduled for 2025 by the American Psychological Association.

In recognition of their contributions to the field, Robert Elliott was named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association in 2000.

Best Publications

  • Evolving guidelines for publication of qualitative research studies in psychology and related fields.

    Robert Elliott;Constance T. Fischer;David L. Rennie

  • Research Methods in Clinical Psychology: An Introduction for Students and Practitioners

    Chris Barker;Nancy Pistrang;Robert Elliott

  • Facilitating Emotional Change: The Moment-by-Moment Process

    Leslie S. Greenberg;Laura North Rice;Robert K. Elliott

  • Descriptive and interpretive approaches to qualitative research

    Robert Elliott;Ladislav Timulak

  • Learning Emotion-Focused Therapy: The Process-Experiential Approach to Change

    Robert Elliott

  • ASSIMILATION OF PROBLEMATIC EXPERIENCES BY CLIENTS IN PSYCHOTHERAPY

    William B. Stiles;Robert Elliott;Susan P. Llewelyn;Jenny A. Firth-Cozens

  • Helpful and nonhelpful events in brief counseling interviews: An empirical taxonomy.

    Robert Elliott

  • Are all psychotherapies equivalent

    William B. Stiles;David A. Shapiro;Robert Elliott

  • Utilization of psychotherapy research by practicing psychotherapists.

    Cheryl Morrow-Bradley;Robert Elliott

  • Psychotherapy change process research: realizing the promise.

    Robert Elliott

  • Interpersonal Process Recall (IPR) as a psychotherapy process research method.

    Robert Elliott

  • Research Methods in Clinical and Counselling Psychology

    Chris Barker;Nancy Pistrang;Robert Elliott

  • Research on experiential psychotherapies

    Robert K. Elliott;L.S. Greenberg;G. Lietaer

  • Client Retrospective Recall of Resolved and Unresolved Misunderstanding Events.

    Renee H. Rhodes;Clara E. Hill;Barbara J. Thompson;Robert Elliott

  • Therapist empathy and client outcome: An updated meta-analysis.

    Robert Elliott;Arthur C. Bohart;Jeanne C. Watson;David Murphy

  • Varieties of client experience in psychotherapy: An analysis of the literature

    Robert Elliott;Elisabeth James

  • Qualitative Change Process Research on Psychotherapy: Alternative Strategies.

    Robert Elliott;Emil Slatick;Michelle Urman

  • HERMENEUTIC SINGLE-CASE EFFICACY DESIGN

    Robert Elliott

  • Research on Humanistic- Experiential Psychotherapies

    Robert Elliott;Leslie S. Greenberg;Jeanne C. Watson;Ladislav Timulak

  • "Are all psychotherapies equivalent?".

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  • Parental support and pressure and children's extracurricular activities: relationships with amount of involvement and affective experience of participation

    Jennifer C Anderson;Jeanne B Funk;Robert Elliott;Peg Hull Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Leslie S. Greenberg
Leslie S. Greenberg York University
William B. Stiles
William B. Stiles Miami University
Chris Barker
Chris Barker University College London
Nancy Pistrang
Nancy Pistrang University College London
Gillian E. Hardy
Gillian E. Hardy University of Sheffield
Ladislav Timulak
Ladislav Timulak Trinity College Dublin
Mick Cooper
Mick Cooper University of Roehampton
Lynne Angus
Lynne Angus York University
Michael Barkham
Michael Barkham University of Sheffield

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