Family Process

Papers
(The median citation count of Family Process is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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The impact of couple and family interventions98
“One man, one life, one marriage”: A qualitative analysis of Hmong women's divorce experiences45
Military couples’ childhood experiences and romantic relationship satisfaction: The role of accepting influence36
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Attending to the larger system in systemic therapy and family research32
An exploration of potential pressures to engage in parenting accommodation of PTSD symptoms for military couples26
“I think it’s communication and trust and sharing everything”: Qualitative evidence for a model of healthy intimate relationships in Black women living with HIV and men in KwaZulu‐Natal, South Africa25
Generating mutual support in multifamily therapy to promote father involvement and family communication quality of Chinese families of adolescents with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A qual24
Training of interventionists and cultural adaptation procedures: A systematic review of culturally adapted evidence‐based parenting programs in Africa22
Actor–partner interdependence of socially prescribed parenting perfectionism and parental control in Chinese families22
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Prevalence and predictors of help‐seeking steps in a nationally representative Dutch sample of romantic couples20
“I miss not being able to offer my couples a box of tissues…”: Couples' and therapists' perspectives on the therapeutic alliance with the transition to online couple therapy20
Attachment‐based family therapy for sexual and gender minority young adults and their nonaccepting parents20
Stress Perception and Marital Instability Across the Family Life Cycle: An Actor‐Partner Perspective17
Dealing with couple infidelity in romantic relationships: A group intervention feasibility study16
One way or another…or both: Different roles of fathers, mothers, and adolescents in the intergenerational transmission of inclusive attitudes15
The role of veterans' PTSD symptoms in veteran couples' insomnia15
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Impact evaluation of the family expectations program and moderation by sociodemographic disadvantage14
Development and psychometric properties of the Chinese Invalidating Family Scale13
Desire discrepancy in long‐term relationships: A qualitative study with diverse couples13
Differential impact of stay‐at‐home orders on mental health in adults who are homeschooling or “childless at home” in time of COVID‐1913
Treatment efficacy of multiple family therapy in helping Chinese children of depressed parents in Hong Kong, China13
Resolving relationship dissolution—What predicts emotional adjustment after breakup?13
The bidirectional connection between family functioning and psychopathology: A network analysis in a large sample of adolescents with anorexia nervosa and their parents13
An intergenerational study of parental bonding on perceptions of parental and spousal criticism and marital relationship quality in Singapore12
Concurrent randomized control trials of the 1‐year efficacy of two couple relationship education programs: ELEVATE and Couples Connecting Mindfully12
Do couples who play together stay together? A longitudinal dyadic examination of shared leisure, financial distress, and relationship outcomes12
I love you no matter what: Negative relationship quality and daily encounters in the parent–child tie and their implications for daily mood across the lifespan12
Longitudinal associations between relational and sexual well‐being in couples transitioning to parenthood12
We Gon' Be Alright: Examining Culturally Relevant Coping Strategies as Promotive Factors for Black Romantic Relationships12
Bidirectional longitudinal relationships between parents' marital satisfaction, parenting stress, and self‐compassion in China12
Transgenerational association of mentalization with child mental health: A scoping review11
Love in the time of COVID‐19: A systematic mapping review of empirical research on romantic relationships one year into the COVID‐19 pandemic11
Coparenting support in the context of difficult children: Mother and father differences11
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Parental worry about children: Scale development and validation among Chinese parents of preschool children10
Preparing for parenthood: Validating a mixed method approach to assessing the coparenting capacity of young expectant fathers and mothers10
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Power dynamics in couple relationships: A review and applications for systemic family therapists10
A call for health justice: Striving toward health equity at a community health center10
Employment and child support outcomes among noncustodial fathers: An evaluation of the Fathers Advancing Community Together program9
Living with spousal loss: Continuing bonds and boundaries in remarried widows’ marital relationships9
Divorced and separated parents during the COVID‐19 pandemic9
Latina mothers' cultural orientation and child self‐esteem: The mediating role of cultural socialization9
Effects of a brief parenting intervention on Latinx mothers and their children8
Family and individual risk factors for triangulation: Evaluating evidence for emotion coaching buffering effects8
Partners Now Parents: Supporting Couples During the Journey to Parenthood8
Examining the stability of emotional regulation and psychological distress for low‐income individuals: A latent transition analysis8
Latina mothers’ mental health: An examination of its relation to parenting and material resources8
Measuring child‐rearing goals for parents with young children: A scoping review8
Comparing individually based and family‐based treatments for internalizing, externalizing, and family symptoms in Latino youth8
The impact of cultural stress on family functioning among Puerto Rican displaced families and the effect on mental health8
Subjective emotion trajectories in couple therapy and associations with improvement in relationship satisfaction8
The use of emotionally focused therapy with polyamorous relationships8
Within‐family processes among safety nets, maternal parenting stress, and child behavioral problems among low‐income families: The importance of race and ethnicity7
Gendering of care and care inequalities in couple therapy7
How effective are ACF‐funded couple relationship education programs? A meta‐analytic study7
Moderating Effect of Family Function Between Dysfunctional Thoughts and Emotional Distress in Dementia Caregivers: Kinship Differences7
For richer, for poorer: Financial behaviors, power (im)balance, and relational aggression among different‐gender newlyweds in the U.S.7
Reciprocal associations between affectual, associational, and normative solidarity with parents during children’s early to established adulthood7
Dyadic associations between COVID‐19‐related stress and mental well‐being among parents and children in Hong Kong: An actor–partner interdependence model approach7
Validation of the Chinese version of the Walsh Family Resilience Questionnaire7
Benefits and burdens of daily sacrifices and commitment in same‐ and different‐gender couples: Explorations of proximity and direction of effects7
Seeking connection can trigger shame loops in couples: An attachment‐based understanding7
Using questionnaires as conversational tools to bolster the therapeutic alliance in family therapy practice7
The Multiracial‐Black Socialization Model: Conceptualizing racial socialization in Multiracial‐Black families7
The McMaster Family Assessment Device (FAD) dimensions involved in the prediction of adolescent depressive symptoms and their mediating role in regard to socioeconomic status7
The family alliance as a facilitator of therapeutic change in systemic relational psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder: A case study7
The elusive nature of neutrality: The role of values in couple therapy7
Redefining Parental Dynamics: Exploring Mental Health, Happiness, and Positive Parenting Practices7
A longitudinal comparative study of a multicouple group and single‐couple psychosocial intervention while experiencing infertility7
Dyadic effects of enacted stigma, internalized homophobia, and communal coping on depressive symptoms among cisgender sexual minority male couples7
Some subtleties of whiteness in the workplace: Steps for shifting the paradigm6
Couple variables predicting retention in a brief intervention and research6
Social Support for Grief, Attachment, and Mental Health Among Bereaved Spouses During COVID‐19 Pandemic6
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Couple and family therapy (and families) in the digital age6
The impact of responsible fatherhood programs on parenting, psychological well‐being, and financial outcomes: A randomized controlled trial5
How adult children of incarcerated parents experience ambiguous loss5
Silencing or silent transmission? An exploratory study on trauma communication in Kurdish refugee families5
Self‐compassion mediates the link between attachment security and intimate relationship quality for couples navigating pregnancy5
Discrepancies in perceptions of PTSD symptoms among veteran couples: Links to poorer relationship and individual functioning5
Searching for who benefits most and least: An analysis of moderators of the TRUE Dads fatherhood intervention5
Family functioning within the context of families with adolescent children in urban India5
Power and dialogue: A review of discursive research5
Parental socialization of mental health in Chinese American families: What parents say and do, and how youth make meaning5
Sexual beliefs in couple relationships: Exploring the pathways of mindfulness, communication, and sexual functioning on sexual passion and satisfaction5
Caregiving stress and maternal mental health during the COVID‐19 pandemic5
Family Connections: The Impact of an Education Program for Carers of Individuals With Borderline Personality Disorder in Italian Mental Health Services5
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Early‐life family and school impacts on adolescent conduct problems: A path analysis5
Sources of attitudes towards parent–child co‐sleeping and their effects: A systematic scoping review5
I can still hear my baby crying: The ambiguous loss of American Indian/Alaska Native birthmothers5
A structural equation model of parenting and child's resilience after the earthquake in Türkiye5
Conflict and Father Involvement: The Unique Role of Postpartum Destructiveness for Fathers' Direct Care in Toddlerhood5
Emotion regulation of the family therapist4
“Family Connections”, a program for relatives of people with borderline personality disorder: A randomized controlled trial4
Family Environment: Protective but Reactive Associations With Cumulative Stress and Arrest Following Multisystemic Therapy4
Culturally humble and anti‐racist couple and family interventions for African Americans4
A conversation analysis of therapist repeats in open dialogue network meetings4
We are not all the same: The importance of perceived difference in racial ideology and Afrocentricity for African American relationships4
Preliminary Effectiveness of Family Therapy for Perinatal Depressive Symptoms: Results From a Pilot Randomized Trial4
Individual’s pretreatment psychological symptoms and progress in couples therapy: A person‐centered analysis4
Parental involvement in Mexican‐origin adolescents' romantic relationships: An examination of parents' cultural orientations and parent‐youth relationships4
Marital satisfaction, parenting styles, and child outcomes in families of autistic children4
Healthy couple, better sleep: Exploring connections and changes in couple relationship education participants4
A closer look at the demographics of same‐sex marriage in the United States: Implications for research, practice, and policy4
Reducing the incidence of domestic violence: An observational study of an equine‐assisted intervention4
Relationship risk factors for intimate partner violence among sexual and gender minorities: A multilevel analysis4
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Parents in couple therapy: An intervention targeting marital and coparenting relationships4
The therapeutic alliance in couple therapy: Patterns by treatment and sex in a randomized controlled trial of emotionally focused therapy and treatment as usual4
The essence of contextual therapy, its place in the field of family therapy, and its role in the future4
Between Vulnerability and Resilience: Parents of Transgender Young Adults4
Preventing child mental health problems in southeastern Europe: Feasibility study (phase 1 of MOST framework)4
Session‐to‐session bidirectional associations of alliance with depressive symptoms and relationship satisfaction4
Application of Family Stress Theory: Predicting Wellbeing by Demands, Resources and Perceptions Among Caregivers of Older Adults4
When not teaming up puts parents at risk: Coparenting and parental burnout in dual‐parent heterosexual families in Switzerland4
Replication and extension of the military family stress model: The after deployment adaptive parenting tools ADAPT4U study4
Emancipatory approaches in couples' intervention research4
“I was simply trying to make it through the day”: A collaborative autoethnography of couple/marriage and family therapy program directors in a diversity and anti‐racism peer consultation group4
The Co‐Parenting Across Family Structures Scale: Replication for Mandarin parents4
Losing a parent during childhood: The impact on adult romantic relationships4
Better together: Relationship quality and mental health among cardiac patients and spouses4
Introduction to special section: Federally funded, community‐based healthy marriage and responsible fatherhood program impact studies4
Called to repair injustice: Connecting everyday practices to societal phenomena, creating momentum for solidarity and change3
Is it me or my child? The association between maternal depression and children's behavior problems in mothers and their children with or without autism3
Relational concerns and change in relationship satisfaction in a relationship education program3
Hopelessness for family members of individuals with borderline personality disorder3
The roles of self‐regulation and partner regulation on romantic relationship quality3
Attachment Insecurity and Coparenting Relationships: An Exploration of the Effects of a Couple‐Based Intervention for New Parents3
The importance of relational ethics3
Parental self‐efficacy: Examining its mediating and reciprocally predictive roles in supportive emotion socialization3
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Co‐occurring trajectory of housing stability and parenting stress with child behavior problems: A randomized trial of a housing intervention for young mothers experiencing homelessness3
Mobile application for couple relationships: Results of a pilot effectiveness study3
Adolescent Attachment: A Social Relations Perspective on Family Relations3
Caregivers and interventionists: Developing a Dual Role Behaviors Scale for parents of children with autism spectrum disorders3
Parenthood during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Post‐traumatic growth amongst university students3
Bidirectional relationships between parenting stress and child behavior problems in multi‐stressed, single‐mother families: A cross‐lagged panel model3
Two pathways to Mexico: Forced deportation or voluntary return of parents and US citizen children3
The indirect impact of infant negative emotionality on interparental conflict via perceptions of coparenting challenges: What prenatal resources mitigate this risk?3
Actor–Partner Model of Parenting and Co‐Parenting Practices and Youth Resilience During the COVID‐19 Pandemic3
Spillover of Daily Parenting Experiences Into Interparental Relationships in Chinese Families of Children With Autism: Mediated by Daily Affect and Moderated by Trait Mindfulness3
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Unsettled adoptive identity: Understanding relationship challenges in adopted adolescents' identity narratives2
Effect of support groups on caregiver’s quality of life2
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Middle childhood attachment‐based family therapy: Theory and model description2
Bidirectional or unidirectional? Longitudinal associations between external stressors, perceived spousal support, and marital instability2
Congruence couple therapy for alcohol use and gambling disorders with comorbidities (part I): Outcomes from a randomized controlled trial2
Assessing the effectiveness and feasibility of the Experienced Carers Helping Others program in relatives of adolescents with eating disorders using an online application format with individual sessio2
Bidirectional associations between parenting stress and coparenting: A longitudinal actor‐partner interdependence analysis2
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Profiles of perceived resources among low‐income, rural mothers: Prospective associations with maternal and child outcomes2
Experiences of fathers caring for children with neurodevelopmental disorders: A meta‐synthesis2
A conditional process analysis of suicidal thoughts and behaviors in outpatient parents: Examining the Narrative Crisis Model by parenthood status2
Introduction to a special section: Racial disparities in health care2
Evidence and couple and family therapy2
Anxiety in the family: A five‐wave random‐intercept cross‐lagged panel analysis of dynamic reciprocal associations between father, mother, and child anxiety2
Electronic and Print Journal Publication2
Sexual intimacy and aging: An integrative framework to promote intimacy resilience in couple therapy2
Rejunctive Moves Toward Systemic Healing: A Contextual Family Therapy Approach to Father’s Absence2
Love in the time of COVID‐19: A brief report on relationship and individual functioning among committed couples in the United States while under shelter‐in‐place orders2
What makes people feel loved? An exploratory study on core elements of love across family, romantic, and friend relationships2
Parent and child adjustment dual trajectories at the beginning of the COVID‐19 syndemic2
Intergenerational solidarity with digital communication and psychological well‐being among older parents during the COVID‐19 pandemic2
Neighborhood disadvantage is associated with biological aging: Intervention‐induced enhancement of couple functioning confers resilience2
Strengthening lower‐income families: Lessons learned from policy responses to the COVID‐19 pandemic2
“I never told my family I was grieving for my mom”: The not‐disclosing‐grief experiences of parentally bereaved adolescents and young adults in Chinese families2
Development and psychometric evaluation of a new domain‐specific coparenting measure: Coparenting Children's Emotion Scale2
Family resources, resilience beliefs, and parental adaptation: A moderated mediation analysis2
The transition to Teletherapy: Experiences of emotionally focused therapists2
“Turning back the clock”: A positive strategy for changing unacceptable youth behavior2
Recruitment and retention of diverse couples in relationship education with integrated economic services2
Is separate the new equal? A meta‐analytic review of correlates of intimate partner violence victimization for Black and White women in the United States2
A qualitative study on how intimate partner violence against women changes, escalates, and persists from pre‐ to postseparation2
Linking child adjustment difficulties with mother's maladaptive parental behavior: The mediating roles of parental cognitions and parenting stress2
Gender identity differences in the experiences of family stressors and violence among transgender and non‐binary individuals in China2
Therapeutic Process Through an Analysis of Significant Events in Psychodramatic Family Therapy2
A latent profile analysis of relationship satisfaction and self‐regulation among low‐income participants who attended relationship education with a partner2
Marital satisfaction in covenant versus standard marriages: Is there a difference?2
Cognitive‐behavioral couple therapy for same‐sex female couples: A pilot study2
Father–Daughter Relationships among Latina Adolescents Who Attempted Suicide: An Exploratory Dyadic Analysis2
The relationship between emotional intimate partner violence and other forms of violence: A metaanalytic review2
The Milan Approach today2
The Alliance–Outcome Association in Couple Therapy: A Common Fate Model2
Maternal satisfaction with joint and sole child physical placement arrangements following separation in Wisconsin and Finland2
Caregivers of individuals with borderline personality disorder: The relationship between leading caregiver interventions and psychological distress/positive mental well‐being2
Sibling relationships among U.S. citizen children of undocumented Mexican parents2
Researching what we practice—The paradigm of systemic family research: Part 12
The third shift: Addressing emotion work in couple therapy2
Friendship as a lifeline: Navigating the precarious landscape of the US employment‐based immigration as women of color psychologists2
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Intergenerational continuity of adverse childhood experiences among Mexican‐origin families: Examination of intra and extra‐familial adversities2
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“Anything Can Happen Here”: Mother–Child Experiences Navigating Life as Residents of an Urban Red‐Light Brothel District in India2
Positive experiences in the parent–child relationship during the COVID‐19 lockdown in Poland: The role of emotion regulation, empathy, parenting self‐efficacy, and social support2
Integrative Systemic Supervision: Promoting Supervisees’ Theoretical Integration in Systemic Therapy2
Effects of family therapy for substance abuse: A systematic review of recent research2
Understanding the link between intimate partner violence exposure and children's self‐regulation: The mediating role of parenting stress and warmth2
Mental health profiles of depressive symptoms and personal well‐being among active‐duty military families2
Relationship‐undermining statements by psychotherapists with clients who present with marital or couple problems2
Relationship education for women during pregnancy: The impact of MotherWise on birth outcomes2
Culturally adapting an evidence‐based parenting intervention for the Chilean context: Balancing fidelity, context, and cultural relevance2
Predictors of attitudes toward potentially having a lesbian, gay, or bisexual child among Chinese heterosexual adults2
TRUE Dads: The impact of a couples‐based fatherhood intervention on family relationships, child outcomes, and economic self‐sufficiency2
Mothers Under Pressure: Different Types of Pressure and Chinese Mothers' Quality of Homework Involvement in Daily Life2
Perceived discrimination and Latina college students' depressive symptoms: The roles of dyadic coping with sisters and familism values2
Family profiles based on family life satisfaction in dual‐earner households with adolescent children in Chile2
Bringing Forth Generativities Within Relational Disquiet: An Interview With Karl Tomm1
Developing guidelines on EFT for same‐sex/gender relationships: Recommendations from a Delphi study1
Exploring associations among baseline emotion regulation and change in relationship satisfaction among couples in a randomized controlled trial of emotionally focused therapy compared to usual care1
Husband as Head?: Diverse Perspectives on Gendered Marital Hierarchy From Highly Religious Wives and Husbands1
Talking through the tough: Identifying facilitating factors to preparation for bias and racial–ethnic discrimination conversations among families from minoritized ethnic–racial groups1
Family‐centered profiles of mindful parenting: Longitudinal associations with negative parenting and youth emotional and behavioral problems1
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Impact of a digital relationship intervention for jailed individuals1
Longitudinal impact of caregiver transition and family caregiving on psychiatric symptoms and psychosocial functioning among persons with schizophrenia in rural China1
Etiologic mechanisms in an adapted family‐based preventive intervention for underage alcohol use in Mexico: Results of an exploratory pilot study1
Positive and negative family communication and mental distress: Married service members during a non‐combat deployment1
Observations of parentadolescent interactions relate to food parenting practices and adolescent disordered eating in adolescents at risk for adult obesity1
Adapting a Coparenting‐Focused Prevention Program for Latinx Adolescent Parents in a School Context1
Child‐oriented family therapy in China: A cross‐cultural application of integrative family therapy targeting children aged 4–101
Intervention effects on self‐control decrease speed of biological aging mediated by changes in substance use: A longitudinal study of African American youth1
Attachment and family functioning across three generations1
Experiences of parents of children with mental illnesses: A systematic review and meta‐ethnographic synthesis1
Family reaction to coming out (FRCO): A Spanish adaptation and validation of perceived parental reactions scale1
Parenting experiences of single fathers: A meta‐synthesis1
Bolstering family therapy: Assimilating EMDR into ABFT in youth residential treatment1
Mexican immigrant parents’ hopes for their children and parenting strategies in different immigration climates1
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The Korean integrative family therapy model1
Pressurizing or encouraging: Health behaviors among long‐distance couples1
Addressing power in couples therapy: Integrating socio‐emotional relationship therapy and emotionally focused therapy1
A special section: Contributions of family science to anti‐racism efforts1
Humanizing Clients With Internalized Neoliberal Ideology Using Contextual Therapy1
Lost in translation: Therapeutic Alliance as a mediator in the relationship between teletherapy and marital satisfaction1
Vulnerability to loneliness among fathers of children with autism spectrum disorder: The role of interpersonal and familial resources1
Obituary: Honoring and remembering—Dr. Evan Imber‐Black (May 19, 1944–May 29, 2024)1
The relationship between familial factors and youth mental health outcomes in Korean American families: The mediation effects of youth's negative emotionality1
Profiles of racial discussions and associations with parent sociocultural factors and internalized racism in Asian American families1
Correction to Effectiveness of functional family therapy in a non‐Western context: Findings from a randomized‐controlled evaluation of youth offenders in Singapore1
Marital satisfaction, parenting stress, and family alliance: Parental perspective taking as a moderator1
Researching what we practice—The paradigm of systemic family research: Part 21
The Development of a Brief Session‐Level Process Measure for Emotion‐Focused Couple Therapy1
Couple differentiation and health‐related quality of life1
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