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Refael Yonatan‐Leus

Observed names: Refael Yonatan Leus, Refael Yonatan-Laus, Refael Yonatan-Leus
ORCID: 0000-0003-2886-2705
Observed ORCID: 0000-0003-2886-2705
OpenAlex ID: A5030850662
Comparing perceived empathy and intervention strategies of an AI chatbot and human psychotherapists in online mental health support
2024 · Refael Yonatan‐Leus, Hadas Brukner · Counselling and Psychotherapy Research · 48
Therapists’ honesty, humor styles, playfulness, and creativity as outcome predictors: A retrospective study of the therapist effect
2017 · Refael Yonatan-Leus, Orya Tishby, et al. · Psychotherapy Research · 34
Understanding stability and change in depressive symptom trajectories across young adulthood through the lens of career development: A mixed-methods study
2023 · Shmuel Shulman, Refael Yonatan-Leus, et al. · International Journal of Behavioral Development · 21
Psychodynamic psychotherapy is associated with sustained reduction in health care utilization and cost
2020 · Refael Yonatan‐Leus, Asher Y. Strauss, et al. · Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy · 17
The longitudinal correlates of breakup distress in early young adulthood: Future distress and future benefits
2024 · Shmuel Shulman, Refael Yonatan-Leus · Journal of Social and Personal Relationships · 13
Changes in playfulness, creativity and honesty as possible outcomes of psychotherapy
2019 · Refael Yonatan-Leus, Gaby Shefler, et al. · Psychotherapy Research · 13
Do positive features of mental health change together with symptoms and do they predict each other?
2020 · Refael Yonatan-Leus, Gaby Shefler, et al. · Psychotherapy · 11
The long arm of rejection sensitivity and young adults' romantic relationships: An extension and a replication
2023 · Shmuel Shulman, Refael Yonatan‐Leus · Journal of Adolescence · 8
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Trajectories of change among highly challenging patients in intensive long‐term psychoanalytic psychotherapy
2023 · Refael Yonatan‐Leus, Maayan Abargil, et al. · Journal of Clinical Psychology · 7
Using machine learning methods to identify trajectories of change and predict responders and non-responders to short-term dynamic therapy
2024 · Refael Yonatan-Leus, Gershom Gwertzman, et al. · Psychotherapy Research · 6
Empirical examination of long-term and intensive psychodynamic psychotherapy for severely disturbed patients
2023 · Gaby Shefler, Maayan Abargil, et al. · Psychotherapy Research · 6
The why, the how, and the what next: A qualitative investigation of premature termination from psychotherapy
2025 · Lauren M. Lipner, Michael Katz, et al. · Psychotherapy Research · 5
Effectiveness of Two Hospitalization Alternatives Compared to Psychiatric Admission: An Ecological Longitudinal Study
2025 · Refael Yonatan-Leus, Avraham Friedlander, et al. · Mental Illness · 4
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Therapist effects in yearlong psychodynamic therapy: An exploratory study
2019 · Refael Yonatan‐Leus, Orya Tishby, et al. · Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy · 4
Breakup Distress Trajectories Across Emerging Adulthood and the Quality of Romantic Relationships: A Mixed-Method Study
2025 · Shmuel Shulman, Refael Yonatan-Leus, et al. · Emerging Adulthood · 2
Stability of breakup distress following romantic dissolutions during emerging adulthood: individual and mean level
2025 · Refael Yonatan-Leus, Shmuel Shulman · Current Psychology · 2
Consent to voluntary antipsychotic drug treatment—Is it free and informed?
2024 · Refael Yonatan-Leus, Nili Karako-Eyal · Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal · 2
Responsiveness and Clinical Judgment as an Alternative to Drifting: A Narrative Update
2024 · Refael Yonatan-Leus, Orya Tishby · Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy · 2
Casual sexual relationships and their increase over time among Israeli emerging adults: Do these associate with the quality of future relationships?
2023 · Shmuel Shulman, Refael Yonatan-Leus, et al. · Journal of Social and Personal Relationships · 2
The complexities of research ethics when therapists become research subjects: power, privacy, and professional boundaries in psychotherapy research
2025 · Refael Yonatan-Leus, Gaby Shefler · Psychotherapy Research · 1
Patient Voices: Lived Experiences of Decision-Making Process in Long-Term Antipsychotic Medication Treatment
2024 · Refael Yonatan-Leus, Nili Karako-Eyal · Community Mental Health Journal · 1
Are Therapist Effects More Crucial than We Thought?
2024 · Refael Yonatan-Leus, Rena Cooper-Kazaz · Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy · 1
Changes in clients' relational patterns with parents and therapist during psychodynamic psychotherapy: Their association and relation to treatment outcome
2023 · Maayan Abargil, Hadas Wiseman, et al. · Journal of Clinical Psychology · 1
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The combined effect of psychodynamic psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy on healthcare cost
2022 · Refael Yonatan-Leus, Maayan Abargil, et al. · Psychotherapy Research · 1
A retrospective experience of therapists’ self-disclosure in treatments described as successful
2026 · Liv Cohen, Bar Mizrahi, et al. · Psychotherapy Research
Works count: 37
Citation count: 212
H-index: 8
I10-index: 7
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