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Publications

Peer-Reviewed papers:​​

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

  2. Grossman-Giron, A., Maoz, H., Nitsan, U., Kivity, Y., Zilcha-Mano, S., Bloch, Y., Mendlovic, S., & Tzur-Bitan, D. (in press). Intranasal oxytocin as add-on treatment for inpatients with severe mental disorders: A randomized clinical trial. Neuropsychobiology.  
     

  3. Johnson, B.N., Kivity, Y., Rosenstein, L.K., LeBreton, J.M., & Levy, K.N. (in press). 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. 
     

  4. Moshe-Cohen, R., Kivity, Y., Huppert, J. D., Barlow, D. H., Gorman, J. M., Shear, K., & Woods, S. (in press). 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. 
     

  5. 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.
     

  6. *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
     

  7. 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.
     

  8. 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.
     

  9. 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. 
     

  10. 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.
     

  11. 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.
     

  12. *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 
     

  13. *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 
     

  14. 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.
     

  15. 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. 
     

  16. 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.
     

  17. 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. 
     

  18. 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.
     

  19. 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. 
     

  20. 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.
     

  21. *Strauss, A.Y., *Kivity, Y., & Huppert, J.D. (2019). Emotion regulation strategies in cognitive-behavioral therapy for panic disorder. Behavior Therapy, 50, 659-671.
    *Equal contribution; Yogev Kivity is the corresponding author. 
     

  22. 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.
     

  23. 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.
     

  24. 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.
     

  25. 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.
     

  26. 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. 
     

  27. 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. 
     

  28. 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.
     

  29. 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.
     

  30. 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.
     

  31. *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.
    *Equal contribution
     

  32. *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.
    *Equal contribution
     

  33. 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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