Mobile Mental Health
Creswell, J. D., & Goldberg, S. B. (in press). The meditation app revolution. American Psychologist.
Hirshberg, M. J., Davidson, R. J., Velarde, L. B., Olvera, J. M., Medina, X., Gonzalez, B. S., Goldberg, S. B., & Chernicoff, L. I. (in press). Effects of a digital wellbeing training with Mexican healthcare professionals: A randomized clinical trial. JAMA Internal Medicine.
Linardon, J., Xie, Q., Swords, C. M., Torous, J., Sun, S., & Goldberg, S. B. (in press). Methodological quality in randomised clinical trials of mental health apps: Systematic review and longitudinal analysis. BMJ Mental Health, 28, e301595.
Torous, J., Linardon, J., Goldberg, S. B., Sun, S., Bell, I., Nicholas, J., Hassan, L., Hua, N., Milton, A., & Firth, J. (2025). The evolving field of digital mental health: Current evidence and implementation issues for smartphone apps, generative artificial intelligence, and virtual reality. World Psychiatry, 42(20, 156-174. doi: 10.1002/wps.21299
Xie, Q., Riordan, K. M., Baldwin, S. A., Simonsson, O., Hirshberg, M. J., Dahl, C. J., Nahum-Shani, I., Davidson, R. J., & Goldberg, S. B. (2024). Is informal practice associated with outcomes in loving-kindness and compassion training? Evidence from pre-post and daily diary assessments. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 177, 104537.
Goldberg, S. B., Jiwani, Z., Bolt, D. M., Riordan, K. M., Davidson, R. J., & Hirshberg, M. (2024). Evidence for bidirectional, cross-lagged associations between alliance and psychological distress in an unguided mobile health intervention. Clinical Psychological Science, 12(3), 517-525. doi: 10.1177/216770262311848
Goldberg, S. B., Lam, S., Simonsson, O., Torous, J., & Sun, S. (2022). Mobile phone-based interventions for mental health: A systematic meta-review of 14 meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials. PLOS Digital Health, 1(1), e0000002. doi: 10.1371/journal.pdig.0000002
Mindfulness- and meditation-based interventions
Riordan, K. M., Simonsson, O., Frye, C., Vack, N. J., Sachs, J., Fitch, D., Goldman, R. I., Chiang, E. S., Dahl, C. J., Davidson, R. J., & Goldberg, S. B. (2024). How often should I meditate? A randomized trial examining the role of meditation frequency when total amount of meditation is held constant. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 71, 104-114. doi: 10.1037/cou0000725
Riordan, K. M., MacCoon, D., Barrett, B., Rosenkranz, M. A., Chungyalpa, D., Lam, S., Davidson, R. J., & Goldberg, S. B. (2022). Does meditation training promote pro-environmental behavior? A cross-sectional comparison and a randomized controlled trial. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 84, 101900. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2022.101900
Jiwani, Z., Lam, S., Davidson, R. J., & Goldberg, S. B. (2022). Motivation for meditation and its association with meditation practice in a national sample of Internet users. Mindfulness, 13, 2641-2651. doi: 10.1007/s12671-022-01985-6
Goldberg, S. B., Riordan, K., Sun, S., & Davidson, R. J. (2022). The empirical status of mindfulness-based interventions: A systematic review of 44 meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 17(1), 108-130. doi: 10.1177/1745691620968771
Goldberg, S.B., Tucker, R.P., Greene, P.A., Davidson, R.J., Wampold, B.E., Kearney, D.J., & Simpson, T.L. (2018). Mindfulness-based interventions for psychiatric disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Clinical Psychology Review, 59, 52-60. doi:10.1016/j.cpr.2017.10.011
Psychotherapy
Rousmaniere, T., Goldberg, S. B., & Torous, J. (in press). Large language models as mental health providers. The Lancet Psychiatry.
Goldberg, S. B., Baldwin, S. A., Flynn, A. W. P., Babins-Wagner, R., Caperton, D. D., Williams, C. Y., Hamm, E. H., Lam, S., Cozart, J. K., Deole, G., Solomonov, N., Kopta, S. M., Anderson, T., Wampold, B. E., & Owen, J. (in press). Multimodal assessments of therapist characteristics are largely unrelated to patient outcomes: A preregistered analysis. Clinical Psychological Science.
Williams, C. Y., Owen, J., Rousmaniere, T., Harris, J., & Goldberg, S. B. (in press). Developing therapists’ multicultural orientation using web-based deliberate practice: An initial feasibility, usability, and acceptability study. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice.
Goldberg, S. B., Flemotomos, N., Martinez, V. R., Tanana, M., Kuo, P., Pace, B. T.,…& Atkins, D. C. (2020). Machine learning and natural language processing in psychotherapy research: Alliance as example use case. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 67(4), 438-448. doi: 10.1037/cou0000382
Goldberg, S.B., Rousmaniere, T., Miller, S.D., Whipple, J., Nielsen, S.L., Hoyt, W.T., & Wampold, B.E. (2016). Do psychotherapists improve with time and experience? A longitudinal analysis of outcomes in a clinical setting. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 63(1), 1-11. doi: 10.1037/cou0000131
Student/trainee co-authors are bold
For a complete list of publications see the Center for Healthy Minds and Google Scholar