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  1. The meditation app revolution.

    Article • American Psychologist, August 2025, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Simon Goldberg

  2. Is employment status associated with baseline symptoms, engagement, and outcomes in naturalistic psychotherapy? Evaluation in a large community mental health agency.

    Article • Psychotherapy, August 2025, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Simon Goldberg

  3. Can psychedelic use benefit meditation practice? Examining individual, psychedelic, and meditation-related factors

    Article • PLOS One, February 2025, PLOS

    Simon Goldberg

  4. Developing therapists’ multicultural orientation using web-based deliberate practice: An initial feasibility, usability, and acceptability study.

    Article • Professional Psychology Research and Practice, August 2024, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Simon Goldberg

  5. Does it matter how meditation feels? An experience sampling study.

    Article • Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, August 2024, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Simon Goldberg

  6. How often should I meditate? A randomized trial examining the role of meditation frequency when total amount of meditation is held constant.

    Article • Journal of Counseling Psychology, March 2024, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Simon Goldberg

  7. Contemplative science comes of age: Looking backward and forward 20 years after Baer (2003).

    Article • Clinical Psychology Science and Practice, March 2024, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Simon Goldberg

  8. Automating the assessment of multicultural orientation through machine learning and natural language processing.

    Article • Psychotherapy, February 2024, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Simon Goldberg

  9. Revealing subgroup-specific mechanisms of change via moderated mediation: A meditation intervention example.

    Article • Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, September 2023, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Simon Goldberg

  10. Let’s decide what would be convincing, conduct randomized trials with rigorous comparison conditions, and report tests of moderation and publication bias in meta-analyses

    Article • PLOS Digital Health, November 2022, PLOS

    Simon Goldberg

  11. Threat alert: The effect of outliers on the alliance–outcome correlation.

    Article • Journal of Counseling Psychology, September 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Simon Goldberg

  12. A randomized controlled trial of a smartphone-based well-being training in public school system employees during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Article • Journal of Educational Psychology, March 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Matt Hirshberg, Simon Goldberg

  13. A mindfulness-based mobile health (mHealth) intervention among psychologically distressed university students in quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic: A randomized controlled trial.

    Article • Journal of Counseling Psychology, March 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Shufang Sun, Simon Goldberg

  14. Mobile phone-based interventions for mental health: A systematic meta-review of 14 meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials

    Article • PLOS Digital Health, January 2022, PLOS

    Simon Goldberg

  15. Treatment receipt patterns among individuals with co-occurring posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance use disorders.

    Article • Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, November 2020, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Simon Goldberg, Tracy Simpson

  16. Does mindfulness practice promote psychological functioning or is it the other way around? A daily diary study.

    Article • Psychotherapy, September 2020, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Adam Hanley, Simon Goldberg

  17. Machine learning and natural language processing in psychotherapy research: Alliance as example use case.

    Article • Journal of Counseling Psychology, July 2020, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Simon Goldberg

  18. Allegiance effects in mindfulness-based interventions for psychiatric disorders: A meta-re-analysis

    Article • Psychotherapy Research, September 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Simon Goldberg

  19. Still facial photographs of long-term meditators are perceived by naïve observers as less neurotic, more conscientious and more mindful than non-meditating controls

    Article • PLOS One, August 2019, PLOS

    Simon Goldberg

  20. Does practice quality mediate the relationship between practice time and outcome in mindfulness-based stress reduction?

    Article • Journal of Counseling Psychology, July 2019, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Simon Goldberg

  21. A positive screen for military sexual trauma is associated with greater risk for substance use disorders in women veterans.

    Article • Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, June 2019, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Simon Goldberg

  22. Mental Health Treatment Delay: A Comparison Among Civilians and Veterans of Different Service Eras

    Article • Psychiatric Services, May 2019, American Psychiatric Association

    Simon Goldberg

  23. Routine monitoring of therapeutic alliance to predict treatment engagement in a Veterans Affairs substance use disorders clinic.

    Article • Psychological Services, February 2019, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Simon Goldberg

  24. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for the treatment of current depressive symptoms: a meta-analysis

    Article • Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, February 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Simon Goldberg, Tracy Simpson

  25. The zentensive: A psychodynamically oriented meditation retreat for psychotherapists.

    Article • Practice Innovations, March 2018, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Simon Goldberg

  26. Why mindfulness belongs in counseling psychology: A synergistic clinical and research agenda

    Article • Counselling Psychology Quarterly, April 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Simon Goldberg