Sona Dimidjian

9.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
89 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Sona Dimidjian is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sona Dimidjian has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Clinical Psychology, 32 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 25 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Sona Dimidjian's work include Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (23 papers), Digital Mental Health Interventions (21 papers) and Mental Health Research Topics (19 papers). Sona Dimidjian is often cited by papers focused on Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (23 papers), Digital Mental Health Interventions (21 papers) and Mental Health Research Topics (19 papers). Sona Dimidjian collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Sona Dimidjian's co-authors include Christopher R. Martell, Neil S. Jacobson, Steven D. Hollon, Zindel V. Segal, Robert Gallop, Karen B. Schmaling, David C. Atkins, Michael E. Addis, Manuel Barrera and Ricardo F. Muñoz and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Neuron and American Journal of Psychiatry.

In The Last Decade

Sona Dimidjian

86 papers receiving 5.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Randomized trial of behavioral activation, cognitive therapy, and antidepressant medication in the acute treatment of adults with major depression.

2006 1.1k citations Sona Dimidjian, Steven D. Hollon et al. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology profile →
Behavioral activation treatment for depression: Returning to contextual roots.

2001 689 citations Christopher R. Martell, Sona Dimidjian et al. profile →
The Healthy Activity Program (HAP), a lay counsellor-delivered brief psychological treatment for severe depression, in primary care in India: a randomised controlled trial

2016 280 citations Vikram Patel, Benedict Weobong et al. The Lancet profile →
Effect of Pain Reprocessing Therapy vs Placebo and Usual Care for Patients With Chronic Back Pain

2021 145 citations Yoni K. Ashar, Sona Dimidjian et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sona Dimidjian United States	37	3.6k	2.2k	1.5k	1.2k	739	89	6.0k
Jackie K. Gollan United States	34	3.1k 0.9×	2.4k 1.1×	1.2k 0.8×	880 0.8×	775 1.0×	94	5.6k
Marcus J. H. Huibers Netherlands	47	3.1k 0.9×	3.0k 1.4×	1.4k 0.9×	1.5k 1.3×	1.1k 1.5×	170	7.0k
Derek R. Hopko United States	44	3.0k 0.8×	3.0k 1.3×	1.4k 0.9×	1.5k 1.3×	803 1.1×	88	6.5k
Kenneth M. Carpenter United States	34	3.4k 0.9×	1.5k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	663 0.6×	819 1.1×	71	6.6k
Eirini Karyotaki Netherlands	44	3.5k 1.0×	2.9k 1.3×	1.9k 1.2×	2.3k 2.0×	1.0k 1.4×	149	7.2k
Anu Asnaani United States	25	3.8k 1.0×	2.1k 0.9×	1.5k 1.0×	659 0.6×	584 0.8×	59	6.5k
Amit Bernstein United States	51	5.2k 1.4×	4.0k 1.8×	1.2k 0.8×	976 0.8×	618 0.8×	144	7.5k
David J. A. Dozois Canada	47	5.0k 1.4×	3.6k 1.6×	2.0k 1.3×	802 0.7×	1.1k 1.5×	136	8.0k
Anka A. Vujanovic United States	46	5.3k 1.5×	2.1k 0.9×	900 0.6×	625 0.5×	746 1.0×	226	7.2k
Ariel J. Lang United States	41	4.4k 1.2×	1.4k 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	440 0.4×	655 0.9×	127	6.6k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Dimidjian, Sona, et al.. (2025). Centering justice in the codesign of mindfulness and compassion-based college curricula.. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. 96(2). 235–252. 1 indexed citations

Penuel, William R., et al.. (2024). Humanizing Co-design through attention to educators’ affective and relational experiences. Journal of the Learning Sciences. 33(1). 41–79. 3 indexed citations

Park, Bernadette, et al.. (2024). Stereotypes About Who is Affected by Eating Disorders Disadvantage Risk Perception for Black Girls and Women. Sex Roles. 90(8). 1075–1098. 4 indexed citations

Vanderkruik, Rachel, et al.. (2023). Culturally Adapted Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training for Latinx Caregivers. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice. 31(2). 121–135. 2 indexed citations

Metcalf, Christina A., Robert Gallop, Zindel V. Segal, & Sona Dimidjian. (2023). Mental Health Outcomes and Putative Targets of an Online Mindfulness Program for New and Expectant Mothers: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Technology in Behavioral Science. 8(2). 148–157. 2 indexed citations

Dimidjian, Sona, Robert Gallop, Joseph Josy Lévy, Arne Beck, & Zindel V. Segal. (2023). Mediators of change in online mindfulness-based cognitive therapy: A secondary analysis of a randomized trial of mindful mood balance.. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 91(8). 496–502. 6 indexed citations

Dimidjian, Sona, et al.. (2023). The use of lullaby to support social and emotional wellness among parents during the COVID-19 pandemic. Psychology of Music. 52(2). 199–216. 1 indexed citations

Park, Bernadette, et al.. (2023). Developing the Sense of Belonging Scale and Understanding Its Relationship to Loneliness, Need to Belong, and General Well-Being Outcomes. Journal of Personality Assessment. 106(3). 347–360. 5 indexed citations

Ashar, Yoni K., et al.. (2021). Effects of compassion training on brain responses to suffering others. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 16(10). 1036–1047. 13 indexed citations

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Boeldt, Debra, et al.. (2021). Nuestra Escuela, Nuestras Voces (Our School, Our Voices): Using Photovoice to Understand and Promote Compassion in Schools. Journal of Latinos and Education. 22(4). 1475–1491. 1 indexed citations

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Gallop, Robert, Sona Dimidjian, David C. Atkins, & Vito M. R. Muggeo. (2021). Quantifying Treatment Effects When Flexibly Modeling Individual Change in a Nonlinear Mixed Effects Model. Journal of Data Science. 9(2). 221–241.

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Vanderkruik, Rachel, et al.. (2020). Preventing eating disorders in young women: An RCT and mixed-methods evaluation of the peer-delivered Body Project.. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 88(12). 1105–1118. 9 indexed citations

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Furukawa, Toshi A., Mirjam Reijnders, Sanae Kishimoto, et al.. (2019). Translating the BDI and BDI-II into the HAMD and vice versa with equipercentile linking. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences. 29. e24–e24. 57 indexed citations

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Bos, Fionneke M., Eiko I. Fried, Steven D. Hollon, et al.. (2018). Cross-sectional networks of depressive symptoms before and after antidepressant medication treatment. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 53(6). 617–627. 56 indexed citations

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Weobong, Benedict, Helen A. Weiss, David McDaid, et al.. (2017). Sustained effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the Healthy Activity Programme, a brief psychological treatment for depression delivered by lay counsellors in primary care: 12-month follow-up of a randomised controlled trial. PLoS Medicine. 14(9). e1002385–e1002385. 62 indexed citations

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Patel, Vikram, Benedict Weobong, Helen A. Weiss, et al.. (2016). The Healthy Activity Program (HAP), a lay counsellor-delivered brief psychological treatment for severe depression, in primary care in India: a randomised controlled trial. The Lancet. 389(10065). 176–185. 280 indexed citations breakdown →

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Martell, Christopher R., et al.. (2015). Verhaltensaktivierung bei Depression. 2 indexed citations

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Hubley, Samuel, Eric A. Woodcock, Linda A. Dimeff, & Sona Dimidjian. (2014). Disseminating Behavioural Activation for Depression via Online Training: Preliminary Steps. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy. 43(2). 224–238. 9 indexed citations

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Dimidjian, Sona, Manuel Barrera, Christopher R. Martell, Ricardo F. Muñoz, & Peter M. Lewinsohn. (2011). The Origins and Current Status of Behavioral Activation Treatments for Depression. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology. 7(1). 1–38. 491 indexed citations

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Schmaling, Karen B., Sona Dimidjian, Wayne Katon, & Mark Sullivan. (2002). Response styles among patients with minor depression and dysthymia in primary care.. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 111(2). 350–356. 105 indexed citations

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