Publications
Here you can find a list of related publications (emotion-focused, psychotherapy, and psychotherapy research methodology).
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Books:
Kwatra, A., Timulak, L., Lu Huixian, S., Joyce, C., & Creaner, M. (2022). Transforming emotional pain: An emotion-focused workbook. Routledge.
Timulak, L. & Keogh, D. (2021, October). Transdiagnostic emotion-focused therapy: A clinical guide for transforming of emotional pain. American Psychological Association.
Elliott, R. & Timulak, L. (2021). Essentials of descriptive-interpretive qualitative research: A generic approach. American Psychological Association.
Timulak, L. & McElvaney, J. (2017). Transforming generalized anxiety: An emotion-focused approach. Hove, East Sussex: Routledge.
Timulak, L. (2015). Transforming emotional pain in psychotherapy: An emotion-focused approach. Hove, East Sussex: Routledge.
Timulak, L. (2011). Developing your counselling and psychotherapy skills and practice. London: Sage.
Timulak, L. (2008). Research in Psychotherapy and Counselling. London: Sage Publications.
Timuľák, L. (2006). Základy vedenia psychoterapeutického rozhovoru. Praha: Portál. [Basics of conducting psychotherapy interview].
Timuľák, L. (2005). Současný výzkum v psychoterapii. Praha: Triton. [Current psychotherapy research].
Research Reports:
Timulak, L., Buckroyd, J., Klimas, J., Creaner, M., Wellsted, D., Bunn, F., Bradshaw, S. and Green, G. (2013). Helpful and unhelpful aspects of eating disorders treatment involving psychological therapy. Lutterworth: British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Gardner, C., Dermody, A., Browne, R., and Timulak, L. (2015). Responding to Self-Harm - An Evaluation of the Self-Harm Intervention Programme (SHIP). Health Service Executive: Waterford.
Chapters in books:
2021
Elliott, R., Watson, J. C., Timulak, L., & Sharbanee, J. (2021). Research on humanistic-experiential psychotherapies. In M. Barkham & W. Lutz (Ed.)., Bergin & Garfield‘s Handbook of Psychotherapy and Behaviour Change. 7th Ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
2020
Keogh, D. & Timulak, L. (2020). The therapeutic relationship. In N. Moller, A. Vossler, D. W. Jones, & D. Kaposi (Eds.), Understanding Mental Health and Counselling. Open University & Sage.
2018
Timulak, L. & Iwakabe, S., & Elliott, R. (2018). Clinical implications of quantitative, qualitative and case study research on emotion-focused therapy. In L. S. Greenberg & R. N. Goldman (Eds.), Clinical handbook of emotion-focused therapy. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Watson, J. C., Timulak, L., & Greenberg, L. S. (2018). Emotion-focused therapy for generalized anxiety disorder. In L. S. Greenberg & R. N. Goldman (Eds.), Clinical handbook of emotion-focused therapy. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
2017
Timulak, L. (2017). Emotion-focused therapy. In C. Feltham, T. Hanley, And L. Winter (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of counselling and psychotherapy. 4th Ed. London: Sage.
Creaner, M. & Timulak, L. (2017). Supervision in counselling psychology. In D. Murphy (ed.). Counselling psychology: A textbook for study and practice (British Psychological Society - Textbooks in psychology series). London: Wiley.
Gillon, E., & Timulak, L., Creaner, M. (2017). Training models in counselling psychology. In D. Murphy (ed.). Counselling psychology: A textbook for study and practice (British Psychological Society - Textbooks in psychology series). London: Wiley.
Pre-2016
Creaner, M. & Timulak, L. (2016). Supervision in pluralistic counselling and psychotherapy. In M. Cooper & W. Dryden (eds.). The handbook of pluralistic counselling and psychotherapy. (pp. 314-325). London: Sage.
Timulak, L. (2014). Introduction to research methodology. In A. Vossler & N. Moller (Eds.), The Counselling & Psychotherapy Research Handbook. London: Sage.
Timulak, L. (2014). Qualitative meta-analysis: a tool for reviewing qualitative research findings in psychotherapy. In W. Lutz & S. Knox, (Eds.), Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Psychotherapy Research (pp. 309-324). London: Routledge.
Timulak, L. (2013). Qualitative meta-analysis. In U. Flick (Ed.)., The Sage Handbook of qualitative data analysis. London: Sage.
Timuľák, L., Halamova, J., & O’Brien, O. (2013). Poradenská psychológia v medzinárodnom kontexte. In H. Smitková (Ed.), Kapitoly z poradenskej psychológie. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského.
Elliott, R., Greenberg, L. S., Watson, J. C., Timulak, L., & Freire, E. (2013). Research on humanistic-experiential psychotherapies. In M. J. Lambert (Ed.)., Bergin & Garfield‘s Handbook of Psychotherapy and Behaviour Change. 6th Ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Timulak, L. & Creaner, M. (2010). Qualitative meta-analysis of outcomes of person-centred/experiential therapies (pp. 65-90). In M. Cooper, J. C. Watson, & D. Holledampf (Eds.), Person-Centred and Experiential Psychotherapies Work. Ross-on-Wye: PCCS Books.
Timuľák, L. (2010). Psychoterapie zaměřená na osobu a prožitková terapie. In Z. Vybíral & J. Roubal (Eds.), Současná psychoterapie. Praha: Portál. [Person-centred and experiential psychotherapy, in Current psychotherapy].
Timuľák, L. (2010). Psychoterapie podložená výzkumem. In Z. Vybíral & J. Roubal (Eds.), Současná psychoterapie. Praha: Portál. [Research-informed psychotherapy, in Current psychotherapy.].
Timuľák, L. (2010). Práce s emocemi v současné psychoterapii. In Z. Vybíral & J. Roubal (Eds.), Současná psychoterapie. Praha: Portál. [Working with emotions in current psychotherapy, in Current psychotherapy.].
Timuľák, L. (2010). Kazuistika – Integratívní terapie zaměřená na emoce. In Z. Vybíral & J. Roubal (Eds.), Současná psychoterapie. Praha: Portál. [Case study – Integrative emotion-focused therapy, in Current psychotherapy].
Timuľák, L. & Vybíral, Z. (2010). Jak víme, že je psychoterpie účinná. In Z. Vybíral & J. Roubal (Eds.), Současná psychoterapie. Praha: Portál. [How do we know that psychotherapy works, in Current psychotherapy].
Elliott, R. & Timulak, L. (2005). Descriptive and interpretive approaches to qualitative research. In J. Miles & P. Gilbert (Eds.), A Handbook of research methods in clinical and health psychology (pp. 147-159). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Timuľák, L. & Bieščad, M. (2005). Metodologické otázky merania psychoterapeutickej zmeny. In Solár, T., Ritomský, A., Metódy empirickej psychológie I. Nitra: Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa. [Methodological questions of assessing psychotherapeutic change].
Peer reviewed journals:
2022
Madden, L. & Timulak, L. (2022). It takes three to tango: clients’ experiences of couple therapy: A meta-analysis of qualitative research studies. Counselling Psychology Quarterly. doi: 10.1080/09515070.2022.2151978
Pillai, S., Connolly, A., Hession, N., & Timulak, L. (2022). ’Why mutilate me before I die’: An emotion-focused conceptualization of breast cancer clients’ experiences of anxiety and depression. Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies, doi: 10.1080/14779757.2022.2104750
Kramer, U., & Timulak, L. (2022). The emotional underpinnings of personality pathology: Implications for psychotherapy. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 29(3), 275–286. https://doi.org/10.1037/cps0000080
Marren, C., Mikoška, P., O'Brien, S., & Timulak, L. (2022). A qualitative meta‐analysis of the clients' experiences of emotion‐focused therapy. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpp.2745
Timulak, L., Keogh, D., Chigwedere, C., Wilson, C., Ward, F., Hevey, D., Griffin, P., Jacobs, L., Hughes, S., Vaughan, C., Beckham, K., & Mahon, S. (2022). A comparison of emotion-focused therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy in the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder: Results of a feasibility randomized controlled trial. Psychotherapy, 59(1), 84–95. https://doi.org/10.1037/pst0000427
Chircop Coleiro, A., Creaner, M., & Timulak, L. (2022). The good, the bad, and the less than ideal in clinical supervision: a qualitative meta-analysis of supervisee experiences, Counselling Psychology Quarterly, DOI: 10.1080/09515070.2021.2023098
2021
Ladmanová, M., Řiháček, T. & Timulak, L. (2021). Client-identified impacts of helpful and hindering events in psychotherapy: A qualitative meta-analysis. Psychotherapy Research, doi: 10.1080/10503307.2021.2003885
Brand, C., Ward, F., MacDonagh, N., Cunningham, S., & Timulak, L. (2021). A national evaluation of the Irish public health counselling in primary care service–examination of initial effectiveness data. BMC Psychiatry, 21(1), 1-10.
2020
O’Connell Kent, J. A., Jackson, A., Robinson, M., Rashleigh, C., Timulak, L. (2020). Emotion-focused therapy for symptoms of generalised anxiety in a student population: An exploratory study. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1002/capr.12346
Kramer, U., & Timulak, L. (2020). Introduction to the Special Issue ‘Innovative counselling and psychotherapy research methods’: Defining the future of counselling and psychotherapy research. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research.
Timulak, L., Keogh, D., McElvaney, J., Schmitt, S., Hession, N., Timulakova, K., Jennings, C. and Ward, F. (2020). Emotion-focused therapy as a transdiagnostic treatment for depression, anxiety and related disorders: Protocol for an initial feasibility randomised control trial. HRB Open Research. 3:7 (https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.12993.1)
Hissa, J. & Timulak, L. (2020). Theoretically informed qualitative psychotherapy research: A primer. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1002/capr.12301
2019
Toolan, R., Devereux, M, Timulak, L., & Keogh, D. (2019). Relationship between self‐worrying and self‐critical messages in clients with generalised anxiety engaging in emotion‐focused worry dialogues. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research. https://doi.org//10.1002/capr.12229
Timulak, L., & Keogh, D. (2019). Emotion-focused therapy: A transdiagnostic formulation. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 1-13. https://doi.org//10.1007/s10879-019-09426-7
Timulak, L. & Elliott, R. (2019). Taking Stock of Descriptive-Interpretative Qualitative Psychotherapy Research: Issues and Observations from the Front Line. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 19, 8-15. https://doi.org//10.1002/capr.12197
O’Brien, K., O’Keeffe, N., Cullen, H., Durcan, A., Timulak, L., & McElvaney, J. (2019). Emotion-focused perspective on generalised anxiety disorder: A qualitative analysis of clients’ in-session presentations. Psychotherapy Research, 29, 524-540. https://doi.org//10.1080/10503307.2017.1373206
Hissa, J., Connolly-Zubot, A. Timulak, L. & Hession, N. (2019). Emotion-focused perspective on breast cancer patients’ experiences of comorbid anxiety and depression: A qualitative case analysis of three clients' in-session presentations. Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies. Ahead-of-print.
Connolly-Zubot, A., Timulak, L., Hession, N. & Coleman, N. (2019). Emotion-Focused Therapy for Anxiety and Depression in Women with Breast Cancer. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy. Ahead-of-print.
Qiu, S., Hannigan, B., Keogh, D., & Timulak, L. (2019). Learning Emotion-Focused Therapy: Certified Emotion-Focused Therapists’ Perspectives. Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies. Ahead-of-print.
2018
Timulak, L., Keogh, D., Chigwedere, C., Wilson, C., Ward, F., Hevey, D., Griffin, P., Jacobs, L., & Irwin, B. (2018). A comparison of emotion-focused therapy and cognitive-behavioural therapy in the treatment of generalised anxiety disorder: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. 19, 506. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-018-2892-0
Timulak, L. (2018). Humanistic‐experiential therapies in the treatment of generalised anxiety: A perspective. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 18, 233-236. https://doi.org//10.1002/capr.12172
Dillon, A., Timulak, L., & Greenberg, L. S. (2018). Transforming core emotional pain in a course of emotion-focused therapy for depression: A case study. Psychotherapy Research, 28(3), 406-422. https://doi.org//10.1080/10503307.2016.1233364
2017
Timulak, L., McElvaney, J., Keogh, D. Martin, E., Clare, P., Chepukova, E., & Greenberg, L. S. (2017). Emotion-focused therapy for generalized anxiety disorder: An exploratory study. Psychotherapy, 54, 361-366. doi: 10.1037/pst0000128. http://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fpst0000128
Timulak, L. & Keogh, D. (2017). The client’s perspectives on (experiences of) psychotherapy: A practice friendly review. Journal of Clinical Psychology: In session, 73, 1556-1567. doi: 10.1002/jclp.22532 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jclp.22532/full
Murphy, J., Rowell, L., McQuaid, A., Timulak, L., O'Flynn, R., & McElvaney, J. (2017). Developing a model of working with worry in emotion‐focused therapy: A discovery‐phase task analytic study. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 17, 56-70. https://doi.org//10.1002/capr.12089 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/capr.12089/abstract
2016
Creaner, M. & Timulak, L. (2016) Clinical supervision and counseling psychology in the Republic of Ireland, The Clinical Supervisor, 35, 192-209. https://doi.org//10.1080/07325223.2016.1218812
L’Estrange, K., Timulak, L., Kinsella, L., & D’Alton, P. (2016). Experiences of Changes in Self-Compassion Following Mindfulness-Based Intervention with a Cancer Population. Mindfulness, 7, 734-744.
Timulak, L., & McElvaney, J. (2016). Emotion-Focused Therapy for Generalized Anxiety Disorder: An Overview of the Model. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 46, 41-52. https://doi.org//10.1007/s10879-015-9310-7
2015
Ellis, M. V., Creaner, M., Hutman, H. & Timulak, L. (2015). A comparative study of clinical supervision in the Republic of Ireland and the United States. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 62, 621-631.
Angus, L., Watson, J. C., Elliott, R., Schneider, K., & Timulak, L. (2015). Humanistic psychotherapy research 1990–2015: From methodological innovation to evidence-supported treatment outcomes and beyond. Psychotherapy Research, 25, 330-347. https://doi.org//10.1080/10503307.2014.989290
Timulak, L., & Pascual‐Leone, A. (2015). New developments for case conceptualization in emotion‐focused therapy. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 22, 619-636. https://doi.org//10.1002/cpp.1922
2014
Timulak, L. (2014). Witnessing client’s emotional change in psychotherapy: An emotion-focused therapists experience of providing therapy. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 70, 741-752. https://doi.org//10.1002/jclp.22109
Biescad, M. & Timulak, L. (2014). Measuring psychotherapy outcomes in routine practice: Examining Slovak versions of three commonly used outcome instruments. European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 16, 140-162. https://doi.org//10.1080/13642537.2014.895772
McNally, S., Timulak, L., & Greenberg, L. S. (2014). Transforming emotion schemes in emotion-focused therapy: a case study investigation. Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies, 13, 128-149. https://doi.org//10.1080/14779757.2013.871573
2013
Timulak, L. & Creaner, M. (2013). Experiences of conducting qualitative meta-analysis, Counselling Psychology Review, 28, 94-104.
McElvaney J., & Timulak, L. (2013). Clients’ experience of therapy and its outcomes in quantitatively “good outcome” and “poor outcome” psychological therapy in a primary care setting. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 13, 246-253. https://doi.org//10.1080/14733145.2012.761258