Prof. Dana Atzil-Slonim

Refereed articles in scientific journals 

(* indicates a student working under my supervision)

Atzil-Slonim, D. (2007) Treating Bulimia from the guts. Sihut, Israeli Journal for psychotherapy. March (2).

Atzil-Slonim, D., Shefler, G., Dvir, S., & Tishby, O. (2011). Changes in rigidity and symptoms among adolescents in psychodynamic Psychotherapy. Psychotherapy Research, 21(6), 685-695

Atzil-Slonim, D., Shefler, G., Slonim, N., & Tishby, O. (2013). Adolescents in psychodynamic psychotherapy: changes in internal representations of relationships with parents. Psychotherapy Research, 23(2), 201-217.

Atzil-Slonim, D., Shefler, G., & Tishby, O. (2015). Internal representations of the therapeutic relationship among adolescents in psychodynamic psychotherapy. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 22, 502-515.

Atzil-Slonim, D., Bar-Kalifa, E., Rafaeli, E., Lutz, W., Schiefele, A. K., Rubel, J., & Peri, T. (2015). Therapeutic bond judgments: congruence and incongruence. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 83(4), 773-784.

Atzil-Slonim, D., Reshef, M., Berman, E., Peri, T. & Shulman, S. (2015). Changes in romantic competence and career adaptability among young adults in psychotherapy. Emerging Adulthood.

Atzil-Slonim, D., Wiseman, H., & Tishby, O. (2016). Relationship representations and change in adolescents and emerging adults during psychodynamic psychotherapy. Psychotherapy Research, 26(3), 279-296.

Fisher, H., Atzil-Slonim, D., Bar-Kalifa, E., Rafaeli, E., & Peri, T. (2016). Emotional experience and alliance as common factors that synergistically contribute to therapeutic change. Psychotherapy. 53(1), 105-116.

Chen, R., Atzil-Slonim, D., Bar-Kalifa, E., Hasson-Ohayon, I., & Rafaeli, E. (2016). Therapist Recognition of Alliance Ruptures as a Moderator of Changes in Alliance and Symptoms. Psychotherapy Research. 1-11.

Bar-Kalifa, E. **, Atzil-Slonim, D. **, Rafaeli, E., Peri, T., Rubel, J., &. Lutz, W., (2016). Accuracy and bias in therapists' assessments of clients' functioning. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 84(12). (**equal contribution).

Arnon-Ribenfeld, N.,* Bloom, R., Atzil-Slonim, D., Peri, T., de Jong, S. Hasson-Ohayon, I. (2017).  Metacognitive Reflection and Insight Therapy (MERIT) among people with schizophrenia: lessons from two case studies. American Journal of Psychotherapy. 

Mendlovic, S., Doron, A. Saad, A., Atzil-Slonim, D., Mar'I, S. Bloch, Y., Ben-Yehuda, A. (2017). The MATRIX, a novel tool exploring dynamic psychotherapy: Preliminary psychometric properties. Psychiatry Research. 

Arnon-Ribenfeld, N., * Hasson-Ohayon, I., Lavidor, M., Atzil-Slonim, D., Lysaker, P. (2017). The association between metacognitive abilities and outcome measures among people with schizophrenia: A meta-analysis, European Psychiatry, 46, 33-41.

HaCohen, H., Atzil-Slonim, D.,  Tuval-Mashiach, R., Bar-Kalifa, E., & Rand-Lakritz, S. (2017). Multiplicity and mutuality in the transition of patient and therapist's self-states: comparison of good vs. poor outcome groups. Psychotherapy Research. 1-14.

Galili-Weinstock, L.,* Chen, R., Atzil-Slonim, D., Bar-Kalifa, E., Peri, T., & Rafaeli, E. (2017). The Association between Self-Compassion and Treatment Outcomes: session-level and treatment-level effects. Journal of Clinical Psychology.

Fisher, H.,* Atzil-Slonim, D., Bar-Kalifa, E., Rafaeli, E., & Peri, T. (2017). Growth curves of clients' emotional experience and their association with emotion regulation and symptoms. Psychotherapy Research.

Atzil-Slonim, D., Bar-Kalifa, E.,Fisher, H., Peri, T., Rubel, J., Lutz, W., & Rafaeli, E., (2018). Emotional congruence between clients and therapists and Its effect on treatment outcome. Journal of Counselling Psychology. 65(1), 51.

Rubel, J., Bar-Kalifa, E., Atzil-Slonim, D., Schmidt, S., &. Lutz, W. (2018). Congruence of Therapeutic Bond Perceptions and Its Relation to Treatment Outcome: Within- and Between-Dyad Effects. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.

Chen, R.,* Rafaeli, E. , Bar-Kalifa, E., Gilboa-Schechtman, E., Lutz, W., & Atzil-Slonim, D. (2018). Moderators of congruent alliance between therapists and clients: A Realistic Accuracy Model. Journal of Counselling Psychology.

Mendelovic, S. Saad, A, Tuval-Machiach, R., & Atzil-Slonim, D. (2018). The Association between Patient-Therapist MATRIX Congruence and Treatment Outcome. Psychotherapy Research.

Atzil-Slonim, D., Bar-Kalifa, E., Fisher, H.,  Lazarus, G., Hasson-Ohayon, I., Lutz, W., Rubel, J., & Rafaeli, E. (2019). Therapists` empathic accuracy regarding the clients` emotions on clients` outcomes. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.

Aderka, I., Atzil-Slonim, D., Bar-Kalifa, E., hasson-Ohayon, I., & Gilboa-Schetman, E. (2018). Intra-individual variability in symptoms consistently predicts sudden gains: An examination of three independent datasets. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.

HaCohen, N., Atzil-Slonim, D., Shapira, K., Bar-Kalifa, E., & Tuval-Mashiach, R. (2018). Investigating the Mutual Changing of Patient's and Therapist's Self-States: An Integrative Clinical Research Study of a Single Case. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration.

Atzil-Slonim, D., Bar-Kalifa, E., Fisher, H.,  Lazarus, G., Hasson-Ohayon, I., Lutz, W., Rubel, J., & Rafaeli, E. (2019). Therapists` empathic accuracy regarding the clients` emotions on clients` outcomes. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 87(1), 33

Lazarus, G.,* Atzil-Slonim, D., Bar-Kalifa, E.,  & Rafaeli, E. (2019) Emotional instability and therapists' inferential flexibility predict therapists' session-by-session empathic accuracy. Journal of Counselling Psychology. 66(1), 56. 

Galili-Weinstock, L., *  Lazarus, G., *  Atzil-Slonim, D., Bar- Kalifa, E., Rafaeli, E., & Peri, T.  (in press). Self-compassion among psychotherapy clients is in the details of negative, not positive, emotions. The Journal of Positive Psychology. 

Bar-Kalifa, E., Prinz, J., Atzil-Slonim, D., Rafaeli, E., & Lutz, W., (in press). Physiological Synchrony and Therapeutic Alliance in an Imagery-based Treatment. Journal of Counselling Psychology.

Fisher, H., Rafaeli, E., Bar Kalifa, E., Barber, J., Solomonov, N., Peri, T., & Atzil-Slonim, D. (2019). Therapists' Interventions as a Predictor of Improvement in Clients' Emotional Experience, Self-Understanding, and Treatment Outcomes. Journal of Counselling Psychology.

Galili, L., Chen, R., Atzil-Slonim, D., Rafaeli, E., & Peri, T., (in press). Enhancement of self compassion in psychotherapy- the effect of therapists' interventions. Psychotherapy Research.

Atzil-Slonim, D.,, & Tschacher, W. (2019). Dynamic Dyadic Processes in Psychotherapy: Introduction to a Special Section. Psychotherapy Research.

Lutz, W., Prinz, J., Schwartz,  B., Paulick, J., Schoenherr, D., Deisenhofer, A.K., Terhürne, P.,  Boyle, K., Altmann, U., Strauß, B., Rafaeli, E., Atzil-Slonim, D., Bar-Kalifa, E., Rubel, J. (in press). Patterns of early change in interpersonal problems and their relationship to nonverbal synchrony and multidimensional outcome. Journal of Counselling Psychology. 

Arnon-Ribenfeld, N.,* Atzil-Slonim, D., Bar-Kalifa, E., Silber, Y., Fisher, H., Peri, T., ... & Hasson-Ohayon, I. (2019). Tracing metacognition in psychotherapy: associations with symptoms of general distress and depression. The Journal of nervous and mental disease, 207(11), 936-943.

Chen, R., Rafaeli, E., Ziv-Beiman, S., Bar-Kalifa, e., Solomonov, N., Barber, J.P., Peri, T., & Atzil-Slonim, D. (in press). Therapeutic Technique Diversity is Linked to Quality of Working Alliance and Client Functioning Following Alliance Ruptures. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 

Bar-Kalifa, E., & Atzil-Slonim, D. (in press). Dyadic emotional networks and their association with treatment outcome. Journal of Counselling Psychology.

Bar, M., Saad, A., Atzil-Slonim, D., Tuval-Mashiach, R., Gour, T., Baron, N., Mendlovic, S., (2020).  Patient-therapist congruent exchanges engaged with the potential-to-experience is associated with better outcome of Psychotherapy. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice.

Shapira, N.,* Lazarus, G., Goldberg, Y., Gilboa-Schechtman, E., Tuval-Mashiach, R., & Atzil-Slonim, D.  (2020).  Using Computerized Text-Analysis to Examine Associations Between Linguistic Features and Clients’ Distress during Psychotherapy. Journal of Counseling Psychology.

Chapters in books

Wiseman, H. & Atzil-Slonim, D. (2019). Changes in closeness and distance in the development of the client-therapist therapeutic bond. In O. Tishby & H. Wiseman (Eds.), Significant Moments in the Therapeutic Relationship. Washington, DC: APA Press.

Atzil-Slonim, D. (2019). Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Adolescents. In J. S., Ogrodniczuk & D. Kealy (Eds.) Contemporary Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. Academic Press, Elsevier.

Koole, S., Atzil-Slonim, D., Butler, E., Dikker, S., Tschacher, W., & Wilderjans, T. (2020). In sync with your shrink: Grounding psychotherapy in interpersonal synchrony. In Applications of social psychology - Sydney Symposium in Social Psychology. Psychology Press.