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Cooper, Mick; Di Malta, Gina; Knox, Sarah; Oddli, Hanne and Swift, Joshua (2023). Patient Perspectives on Working with Preferences in Psychotherapy: A Consensual Qualitative Research Study. Psychotherapy Research, 33(8) pp. 1117–1131.

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Cooper, Mick and Di Malta, Gina (2023). Person-Centered Theory in Psychotherapy. In: Callahan, Jennifer ed. APA Handbook of Psychotherapy, Volume 1. American Psychological Association (In Press), pp. 71–90.

Di Malta, Gina; Cooper, Mick; Bond, Julian; Raymond-Barker, Brett; Oza, Marsha and Pauli, Regina (2024). The Patient-Perceived Helpfulness of Measures Scale: Development and Validation of a Scale to Assess the Helpfulness of Using Measures in Psychological Treatment. Assessment, 31(5) pp. 994–1010.

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Di Malta, Gina; Cooper, Mick; Knox, Rosanne and Cox, Steve (2024). The relational approach to person-centred therapy. In: Cooper, Mick ed. The Tribes of the Person-Centred Nation (3rd Edition): An introduction to the world of person-centred therapies. Monmouth: PCCS books.

Di Malta, Gina; Bond, Julian; Raymond-Barker, Brett; Moller, Naomi and Cooper, Mick (2024). The Impact of Relational Depth on Subjective Well-being in Close Relationships in the Community. Journal of Humanistic Psychology (Early Access).

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Di Malta, Gina; Cooper, Mick; Gololob, Yana; O'Hara, Maureen and Stephen, Susan (2024). The person-centred approach today and tomorrow: Seeds of a peaceful revolution. In: Di Malta, Gina; Cooper, Mick; Gololob, Yana; O'Hara, Maureen and Stephen, Susan eds. The Handbook of Person-Centred Psychotherapy and Counselling (3rd ed.). London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic (In Press), pp. 1–16.

Di Malta, Gina; Anderson, Ruth and Cooper, Mick (2024). Relational Depth. In: Di Malta, Gina; Cooper, Mick; Gololob, Yana; O'Hara, Maureen and Stephen, Susan eds. The Handbook of Person-Centred Psychotherapy and Counselling (3rd ed.). London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic (In Press), pp. 239–251.

Di Malta, Gina; She, Zhuang; Raymond-Barker, Brett and Cooper, Mick (2023). Extended validation of the Relational Depth Frequency Scale: Retest reliability, divergent and criterion validity, and measurement invariance in UK‐ and US‐stratified samples. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 79(9) pp. 2040–2052.

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Di Malta, Gina; Bond, Julian; Conroy, Dominic; Smith, Katy and Moller, Naomi (2022). Distance education students’ mental health, connectedness and academic performance during COVID-19: A mixed-methods study. Distance Education, 43(1) pp. 97–118.

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Di Malta, Gina; Cooper, Mick; Vos, Joel and Van Der Veer, Kees (2020). An Application of the Three-Step Test-Interview (TSTI) in the Validation of the Relational Depth Frequency Scale. Journal of Humanistic Psychology

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Di Malta, Gina; Oddli, Hanne W. and Cooper, Mick (2019). From intention to action: A mixed methods study of clients' experiences of goal-oriented practices. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 75(10) pp. 1770–1789.

Di Malta, Gina; Evans, Chris and Cooper, Mick (2019). Development and validation of the relational depth frequency scale. Psychotherapy Research, 30(2) pp. 213–227.

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Di Malta, Gina (2017). The Development and Validation of the Relational Depth Frequency Scale. PhD thesis University of Roehampton.

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Freire, Elizabeth and Di Malta, Gina (2024). Empathy. In: Di Malta, Gina; Cooper, Mick; Gololob, Yana; O'Hara, Maureen and Stephen, Susan eds. The Handbook of Person-Centred Psychotherapy and Counselling (3rd ed.). London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic.

Farr, Joanna; Di Malta, Gina and Cooper, Mick (2020). Pilot Randomised controlled trial of counselling in a community mental health setting: Pitfalls and learnings. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 20(1) pp. 3–8.

Jones, Katie; Folliard, Kelda; Di Malta, Gina; Oates, John; Gilbert, Leah and Harrison, Virginia (2024). Risk factors associated with Postpartum Anxiety in Australia, Europe, and North America: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis [Conference Poster]. In: ESRC Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership Annual Conference 2024, 4-5 Jun 2024, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

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Moller, Naomi and Di Malta, Gina (2021). Understanding Sadness and Worry. In: Moller, Naomi; Vossler, Andreas; Jones, David and Kaposi, David eds. Understanding Mental Health and Counselling. London: Sage Publishing, pp. 129–158.

Pacini, Adele; Stickland, Annabel; Iniguez, Krystal and Di Malta, Gina (2023). Implementation of home practice support strategies for older adults attending an online mindfulness based cognitive therapy course: An adaptive intervention protocol. In: Proceedings of the 5th UK Implementation Science Research Conference, 2023.

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Renedo Illarregi, Erika; Alexiou, Katerina; Di Malta, Gina and Zamenopoulos, Theodore (2023). Is designing therapeutic? A case study exploring the experience of co-design and psychosis. Psychosis, 15(3) pp. 277–291.

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She, Zhuang; Xi, Juzhe; Cooper, Mick; Norcross, John C. and Di Malta, Gina (2023). Validation of the Cooper-Norcross Inventory of Preferences (C-NIP) in Chinese lay clients and mental health professionals: Factor structure, measurement invariance, and scale differences. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 70(4) pp. 436–447.

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Sims, Michael and Di Malta, Gina (2021). The Humanistic Approach. In: Moller, Naomi; Vossler, Andreas; Jones, David and Kaposi, David eds. Understanding Mental Health and Counselling. SAGE.

Wright, Nicholas D.; Bahrami, Bahador; Johnson, Emily; Di Malta, Gina; Rees, Geraint; Frith, Christopher D. and Dolan, Raymond J. (2012). Testosterone disrupts human collaboration by increasing egocentric choices. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 279(1736) pp. 2275–2280.

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Zarzycka, Beata; Jankowski, Tomasz; Szostek, Dorota; Di Malta, Gina and Cooper, Mick (2022). Relational depth from the perspective of the psychotherapy dyad: Psychometric properties of the Relational Depth Frequency Scale. Psychotherapy Research, 32(7) pp. 910–921.

Řiháček, Tomáš; Cooper, Mick; Cígler, Hynek; She, Zhuang; Di Malta, Gina and Norcross, John (2024). The Cooper-Norcross Inventory of Preferences: Measurement Invariance across International Datasets and Languages. Psychotherapy Research, 34(6) pp. 804–816.

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