Our Research

Published articles and book chapters that draw on data collected by the Strathclyde Counselling and Psychotherapy Research Clinic

Capaldi, K. & Elliott. R. (2023). Negative treatment of self in socially anxious clients.  Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies. [Latest articles] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14779757.2023.2201937

Elliott, R. (2012). Therapist negative reactions: A person-centered-experiential psychotherapy perspective.  In A.W. Wolf, M.R. Goldfried, & J.C. Muran, Managing negative reactions to clients: From frustration to compassion (pp. 69-90).  American Psychological Association. https://pureportal.strath.ac.uk/en/publications/therapist-negative-reactions-a-person-centred-experiential-psycho

Elliott, R. (2013). Person-centered/experiential psychotherapy for anxiety difficulties: Theory, research and practice. Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies, (12)1, 16-32https://doi.org/10.1080/14779757.2013.767750  

Elliott, R., & Greenberg, L.S. (2016). Humanistic-Experiential Psychotherapy in Practice: Emotion-Focused Therapy. In L.E. Beutler, A.J. Consoli, & B Bongar (eds.), Comprehensive textbook of psychotherapy: Theory and practice (2nd ed.) (pp. 106-120).  New York: Oxford University Press. https://pureportal.strath.ac.uk/en/publications/emotion-focused-therapy-2

Elliott, R., & Greenberg, L.S. (2021).   Emotion-Focused Counselling in Action.  Sage.

Elliott, R., & Macdonald, J. (2021). Relational dialogue in emotion-focused therapy.  Journal of Clinical Psychology, 77(2), 414-428. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.23069

Elliott. R., Wagner, J., Sales, C.M.D., Rodgers, B., Alves, P. & Café, M.J. (2016) Psychometrics of the Personal Questionnaire: A client-generated outcome measure. Psychological Assessment, 28(3), 263–278. https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0000174  

Freire, E., Elliott, R. & Westwell, G. (2014). Person-Centred and Experiential Psychotherapy Scale: Development and reliability of an adherence/competence measure for person-centred and experiential psychotherapies. Counselling & Psychotherapy Research 14(3), 220-226. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733145.2013.808682

Macdonald, J., Elliott, R., & Couto, A.B. (2022).  Relational dialogue in emotion focused therapy: Process analysis and comparison to the alliance-focused training model.  In C.F. Eubanks, L.W. Samstag & J.C. Muran (eds.), Ruptures and repairs in psychotherapy (pp 187-220). APA.

MacLeod, R., & Elliott, R. (2012). Emotion-Focused Therapy for Social Anxiety: A Hermeneutic Single-Case Efficacy Design Study of a Low-Outcome Case. Counselling Psychology Review, 27: 7 - 22. https://doi.org/10.53841/bpscpr.2012.27.2.7

MacLeod, R. & Elliott, R. (2014). Nondirective Person-centered therapy for social anxiety: a hermeneutic single-case efficacy design study of a good outcome case. Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies 13(4), 294-311. https://doi.org/10.1080/14779757.2014.910133

MacLeod, R., Elliott, R. & Rodgers, B (2012). Process-experiential/emotion-focused therapy for social anxiety: A hermeneutic single-case efficacy design study. Psychotherapy Research, 22(1), 67-81.  https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2011.626805

Murphy, D., Elliott, R. & Carrick, L. (2019). Identifying and developing therapeutic principles for trauma-focused work in person-centred and emotion-focused therapies.  Counselling & Psychotherapy Research, 19(4), 497-507.  https://doi.org/10.1002/capr.12235

Smoliak, O., MacMartin, C., Le Couteur, A., Hepburn, A., Elliott, R., & Quinn-Nilas, C. (2022).  Authority in therapeutic interaction: A conversation analytic study.  Journal Marital & Family Therapy, 48(4), 961-981. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12471

Smoliak, O., Strong, T., & Elliott, R (2018). Discursive ethics in therapeutic encounters.  In O. Smoliak & T. Strong (Eds.), Therapy as discourse: Practice and research (pp. 187 – 218). Palgrave/MacMillan.

Stephen, S. (2023). Congruent functioning: the continuing resonance of Rogers’ theory. Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies, 22(4), 397-416. https://doi.org/10.1080/14779757.2022.2164334

Stephen, S., Bell, L., Khan, M., Love, R., MacIntosh, H., Martin, M., Moran, R., Price, E., Whitehead, B. & Elliott, R. (2022). Comparing helpful and hindering processes in good and poor outcome cases: A qualitative metasynthesis of eight Hermeneutic Single Case Efficacy Design studies. Psychotherapy Research, 32(3), 389-403. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2021.1934746  

Stephen, S. & Elliott, R. (2022). The Strathclyde Inventory: Development of a Brief Instrument for Assessing Outcome in Counseling According to Rogers’ Concept of the Fully Functioning Person. Measurement & Evaluation in Counseling & Development, 55(3), 187-206. https://doi.org/10.1080/07481756.2021.1955213

Stephen, S., Elliott, R. & MacLeod, R. (2011). Person-centred therapy with a client experiencing social anxiety difficulties: A hermeneutic single case efficacy design. Counselling & Psychotherapy Research, 11(1), 55-66.  https://doi.org/10.1080/14733145.2011.546203

Stone, C., & Elliott, R. (2011). Clients‘ experience of research within a research clinic setting. Counselling Psychology Review - British Psychological Society, 26(4), 71-86. https://pure.strath.ac.uk/admin/editor/dk/atira/pure/api/shared/model/researchoutput/editor/contributiontojournaleditor.xhtml   

Sutherland [Smoliak], O., Peräkylä, A., & Elliott, R. (2014). Conversation Analysis of the Two-Chair Self-Soothing Task in Emotion-Focused Therapy.  Psychotherapy Research, 24, 738-751.  https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2014.885146