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Publications

Peer-Reviewed papers:​​

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  1. Notsu, H., Kivity, Y., Levy, K. N., Kolly, S., & Kramer, U. (in press). Stable instability: The relation between unstable working alliance and treatment outcome in borderline personality disorder. American Journal of Psychotherapy. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20230032​

  2. Shemesh Lev Ari, H., Hay, D. E., Bernstein, Z. L., Kagan, L., Kivity, Y., Gilboa-Schechtman, E., & Tuval-Mashiach, R. (in press). A meta-analysis of client-therapist perspectives on the therapeutic alliance: Examining the moderating role of eating disorders vs. anxiety disorders, treatment orientation, and measurement time points. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration.

  3. Alfi-Yogev, T., Kivity, Y., Atzil-Slonim, D., Paz, A., Igra, L., Lavi-Rotenberg, A., & Hasson-Ohayon, I. (2024). Transdiagnostic effects of therapist self-disclosure on diverse emotional experiences of clients with emotional disorders and schizophrenia. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 80, 678-691. 

  4. Herr, N. R., Kivity, Y., Ramadurai, R., Covington, A. M., & Gunthert, K. C. (2024). Empathic accuracy of romantic partner negative affect is influenced by borderline personality symptoms. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 15(1), 74-83. 

  5. Kivity, Y., Levy, K. N., Johnson, B. N., Rosenstein, L. K., & LeBreton, J. M. (2024). Mentalizing in and out of awareness: A meta-analytic review of implicit and explicit mentalizing. Clinical Psychology Review, 108, 102395.

  6. Moshe-Cohen, R., Kivity, Y., Huppert, J. D., Barlow, D. H., Gorman, J. M., Shear, K., & Woods, S. (2024). Agreement in patient-therapist alliance ratings and its relation to dropout and outcome in a large sample of cognitive behavioral therapy for panic disorder. Psychotherapy Research, 34, 28-40. 

  7. Sheena, L., Kivity, Y., Shimshi, S., Tuval-Mashiach, R., & Peri, T. (2024). How does change occur in psychotherapy? Innovative moments predict a stronger therapeutic alliance and functional improvement in a psychodynamic case study. Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 37, 7-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/10720537.2023.2248529

  8. Steinberg, N., Moshe-Cohen, R., Sheena, L., & Kivity, Y. (2024). Capturing a mentalized moment: A pilot study of the psychometric properties of a novel assessment method of mentalizing in daily life. Current Psychology, 43, 7596-7611. 

  9. Zabag, R., Kivity, Y., Gilboa-Schechtman, E., & Levy-Gigi, E. (2024). Better social reversal learning is associated with a more social approach across time. Scientific Reports, 14, 8443.

  10. Alfi-Yogev, T., Kivity, Y., Yehezkel, I., Ziv-Beiman, S., Hasson-Ohayon, I., & Atzil-Slonim, D. (2023). Client-therapist temporal congruence in perceiving immediate therapist self-disclosure and its association with treatment outcome. Psychotherapy Research, 33, 704-718. 

  11. Gordon, I., Gilboa-Schechtman, E., Gilboa, A, Cohen, S., & Kivity, Y. (2023). Catching that playful beat: Social anxiety and synchronous group functioning. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 47, 449-470. 

  12. Grossman-Giron, A., Maoz, H., Nitsan, U., Kivity, Y., Zilcha-Mano, S., Bloch, Y., Mendlovic, S., & Tzur-Bitan, D. (2023). Intranasal oxytocin as add-on treatment for inpatients with severe mental disorders: A randomized clinical trial. Neuropsychobiology, 82, 14-23. https://doi.org/10.1159/000528314

  13. Hay, D. E., Azoulay, R., Bleicher, S., Kivity, Y., & Gilboa-Shechtman, E. (2023). Affective and Cognitive Impact of Enhanced Social Inclusion: A Meta-Analytic Review of Cyberball Studies. Cognition & Emotion, 37, 412-429. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2022.2163619

  14. Igra, L., Shilon, S., Kivity, Y., Atzil-Slonim, D., Lavi-Rotenberg, A., & Hasson-Ohayon, I. (2023). Examining the associations between emotion regulation and functional and symptomatic outcome measures among people with different psychiatric disorders. Frontiers in Psychology. 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.944457

  15. Lavi-Rotenberg, A., Kivity, Y., Igra, L., Atzil-Slonim, D., & Hasson-Ohayon, I. (2023). A dyadic session-by-session assessment of therapeutic alliance and short-term outcome among clients with schizophrenia in comparison to people with emotional disorders. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 96, 1029-1043. https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12494

  16. Gofman, M., Kivity, Y., & Peri, T. (2022). Beyond the conditioned fear model: Narrative reconstruction for a woman with PTSD. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 32(2), 210-224. 

  17. Johnson, B.N., Kivity, Y., Rosenstein, L.K., LeBreton, J.M., & Levy, K.N. (2022). The Association Between Mentalizing and Psychopathology: A Meta-Analysis of the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Task Across Psychiatric Disorders. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 29, 423-439. 

  18. *Kivity, Y., *Strauss, A., Elizur, J., Weiss, M., Cohen, L., & Huppert, J.D. (2022). Patterns of alliance development in cognitive behavioral therapy versus attention bias modification for social anxiety disorder: Sawtooth patterns and sudden gains. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 78, 122-136.            * Equal contribution

  19. Kivity, Y., Moshe-Cohen, R., & Livni, T. (2022). How unique is the role of emotions in personality pathology? [Invited commentary on “The emotional underpinnings of personality pathology: Implications for psychotherapy,” by U. Kramer & L. Timulak]. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 29 (3), 291-293. 

  20. Gofman, M., Kivity, Y., Bar-Kalifa, E., Vidan, Z., Hasson-Ohayon, I., Tuval-Mashiach, R., & Peri, T. (2021). Narrative reconstruction as an intervention for PTSD: A pilot delayed intervention randomized controlled trial. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 34, 92-103. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts.22537

  21. Grossman-Giron, A., Becker, G., Kivity, Y., Shalev, S. & Tzur Bitan, D. (2021). Mental pain intensity and tolerance as predictors of psychotherapy process and outcome. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 77(6), 1296-1306. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.23085

  22. Kivity, Y., Cohen, L., Weiss, M., Elizur, J., & Huppert, J.D. (2021). The role of cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression in cognitive behavioral therapy for social anxiety disorder: A study of self-report, subjective, and electrocortical measures. Journal of Affective Disorders, 279, 334-342. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2020.10.021

  23. Kivity, Y., Levy, K.N., Kelly, K. M., & Clarkin, J.F. (2021). In-Session Reflective-Functioning in Psychotherapies for Borderline Personality Disorder: The Emotion Regulatory Role of Reflective-Functioning. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 89(9), 751-761. 

  24. *Kivity, Y., *Strauss, A., Elizur, J., Weiss, M., Cohen, L., & Huppert, J.D. (2021). The alliance mediates outcome in cognitive behavioral therapy for social anxiety disorder, but not in attention bias modification. Psychotherapy Research, 31(5), 589-603.                                                                             * Equal contribution

  25. *Tzur Bitan, D., Ben David, T., Moshe-Cohen, R., & *Kivity, Y. (2021). Patient-therapist congruence and incongruence of process expectations during psychotherapy. Psychotherapy, 58, 493-498.                                                                                                                                                                        * Equal contribution

  26. Flückiger, C., Rubel, J., Del Re, A. C., Horvath, A. O., Wampold, B. E., Crits-Christoph, P., Atzil-Slonim, D., Compare, A., Falkenström, F., Ekeblad, A., Errázuriz, P., Fisher, H., Hoffart, A., Huppert, J. D., Kivity, Y., Kumar, M., Lutz, W., Muran, J. C., Strunk, D., Tasca, G. A., ViÌ‚slă, A., Voderholzer, U., Webb, C., Xu, H., Zilcha-Mano, S., & Barber, J. (2020). The reciprocal relationship between alliance and early treatment symptoms: A two-stage individual participant data meta-analysis. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 88(9), 829–843. 

  27. Kivity, Y., Levy, K.N., Kolly, S., & Kramer, U. (2020). The therapeutic alliance over ten sessions of therapy for borderline personality disorder: Agreement and congruence analysis, and relations with outcome. Journal of Personality Disorders, 34(1), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1521/pedi_2019_33_376

  28. Kivity, Y., Levy, K.N., Wasserman, R.H., Beeney, J.E., Meehan, K.B. & Clarkin, J.F. (2020). Conformity to prototypical therapeutic principles and its relation with change in reflective-functioning in three treatments for borderline personality disorder. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 87(11), 975-988. 

  29. Kivity, Y., Shani Sela, Y., Yariv, A., Koubi, M., Saad, A., Fennig. S., & Bloch, Y. (2020). Transdiagnostic treatment of anxiety disorders in a group format based on the principles of the unified protocol: Protocol description and preliminary examination of outcome and process. International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, 13, 127-145. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1007/s41811-019-00059-1

  30. Tzur Bitan, D., Kivity, Y., Ganor, O., Biran, L., Grossman-Giron, A., & Bloch, Y. (2020). The effect of process and outcome feedback in highly distressed outpatients: A randomized controlled trial. Psychotherapy Research, 30(3), 325-336. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2019.1627014

  31. Kivity, Y. & Huppert, J.D. (2019). Emotion regulation in social anxiety: A systematic investigation using self-report, behavioral, and event-related potentials measures. Cognition & Emotion, 33, 213-230. 

  32. Levy, K. N., Draijer, N., Kivity, Y., Yeomans, F. E., & Rosenstein, L. K., (2019). Transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP). Current Treatment Options in Psychiatry, 6, 312-324. 

  33. *Strauss, A.Y., *Kivity, Y., & Huppert, J.D. (2019). Emotion regulation strategies in cognitive-behavioral therapy for panic disorder. Behavior Therapy, 50, 659-671. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beth.2018.10.005                                                                                                                                                * Equal contribution; Yogev Kivity is the corresponding author.

  34. Huppert, J.D., Kivity, Y., Cohen, L., Strauss, A., Elizur, Y., & Weiss, M. (2018). A pilot randomized clinical trial of cognitive behavioral therapy versus attentional bias modification for social anxiety disorder: An examination of outcomes and theory-based mechanisms. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 59, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2018.08.002

  35. Kivity, Y. & Huppert, J.D. (2018). Are individuals with social anxiety successful in regulating their emotions? A mixed-method investigation using self-report, behavioral, and event-related potentials measures. Journal of Affective Disorders, 236, 298-305. 

  36. Naim, R., Kivity, Y., Bar Haim, Y., & Huppert, J.D. (2018). Attention and interpretation bias modification training for social anxiety: A randomized clinical trial of efficacy and synergy. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 59, 19-30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2017.10.006

  37. Scala, J. W., Levy, K. N., Johnson, B. N., Kivity, Y., Ellison, W. D., Pincus, A. L., … Wilson, S. J. (2018). The role of negative affect and self-concept clarity in predicting self-injurious urges in borderline personality disorder using ecological momentary assessment. Journal of Personality Disorders, 32, 35-56. https://doi.org/10.1521/pedi.2018.32.supp.36

  38. Levy, K. N., Kivity, Y., Johnson, B. N., & Gooch, C. V. (2018). Adult Attachment as a predictor and moderator of psychotherapy outcome: A meta-analysis. Journal of Clinical Psychology: In Session, 74, 1996-2013. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.22685

  39. Kivity, Y. & Huppert, J.D. (2016). Does cognitive reappraisal reduce anxiety? A daily diary study of a micro-intervention with individuals with high social anxiety. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 84(3), 269-283. 

  40. Kivity, Y. & Huppert, J.D. (2016). Emotional reactions to facial expressions in social anxiety: A meta-analysis of self-reports. Emotion Review, 8(4), 367-375. 

  41. Kivity, Y., Tamir. M., & Huppert, J.D. (2016). Self-acceptance of negative emotions: The positive relationship with effective cognitive reappraisal. International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, 9(4), 279-294. https://doi.org/10.1521/ijct_2016_09_10

  42. Nacasch, N., Huppert, J. D., Su, Y.-J., Kivity, Y., Dinshtein, Y., Yeh, R., et al. (2015). Are 60-minute prolonged exposure sessions with 20-minute imaginal exposure to traumatic memories sufficient to successfully treat PTSD? A randomized noninferiority clinical trial. Behavior Therapy, 46(3), 328-341. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beth.2014.12.002

  43. *Huppert, J. D., *Kivity, Y., Barlow, D. H., Gorman, J. M., Shear, M. K., & Woods, S. W. (2014). Therapist effects and the outcome-alliance correlation in cognitive behavioral therapy for panic disorder with agoraphobia. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 52(1), 26-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2013.11.001                                                                                                                                                                                            * Equal contribution

  44. *Weiss, M., *Kivity, Y., & Huppert, J.D. (2014). How does the therapeutic alliance develop throughout cognitive-behavioral therapy for panic disorder? Saw-tooth patterns, sudden gains, and stabilization. Psychotherapy Research, 24(3), 407-418. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2013.868947                                                                                                                                                                            * Equal contribution

  45. Cohen-Mansfield, J., & Kivity, Y. (2011). The relationships among health behaviors in older persons. Journal of Aging and Health, 23(5), 822-842. 

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Chapters

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  1. Levy, K.N., & Kivity, Y. (in press). Transference-focused psychotherapy. In Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. New York: Springer. 
     

  2. Levy, K. N., Johnson, B. N., Gooch, C., & Kivity, Y. (2019). Attachment Style. In J. C. Norcross & B. Wampold (Eds.), Psychotherapy Relationships That Work, Volume 2: Evidence-based Therapist Responsiveness (3rd ed., pp. 15-55). New York, NY: Oxford University Press2. 
     

  3. Levy, K. N., Kivity, Y., & Yeomans, F. E. (2019). Case formulation in transference-focused psychotherapy (pp. 19-40). In U. Kramer (Ed.), Case Formulation for Personality Disorders: Tailoring Psychotherapy to the Individual Client. Elsevier Inc.: Cambridge, MA.

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