OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Family Process is 5. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
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“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 therapy	32
“One man, one life, one marriage”: A qualitative analysis of Hmong women's divorce experiences	29
Prevalence and predictors of help‐seeking steps in a nationally representative Dutch sample of romantic couples	29
An exploration of potential pressures to engage in parenting accommodation of PTSD symptoms for military couples	28
The impact of couple and family interventions	24
Differentiation of Self, Attachment Experiences, and Dyadic Adjustment: An APIM Approach With Spanish‐Speaking Couples	21
Stress Perception and Marital Instability Across the Family Life Cycle: An Actor‐Partner Perspective	20
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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 qual	19
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 lifespan	18
Longitudinal associations between relational and sexual well‐being in couples transitioning to parenthood	18
An intergenerational study of parental bonding on perceptions of parental and spousal criticism and marital relationship quality in Singapore	16
Resolving relationship dissolution—What predicts emotional adjustment after breakup?	15
Transgenerational association of mentalization with child mental health: A scoping review	15
Dealing with couple infidelity in romantic relationships: A group intervention feasibility study	14
Family Resilience and Perceived Stress: A Three‐Level Meta‐Analysis	14
Bidirectional longitudinal relationships between parents' marital satisfaction, parenting stress, and self‐compassion in China	14
The bidirectional connection between family functioning and psychopathology: A network analysis in a large sample of adolescents with anorexia nervosa and their parents	14
Desire discrepancy in long‐term relationships: A qualitative study with diverse couples	14
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One way or another…or both: Different roles of fathers, mothers, and adolescents in the intergenerational transmission of inclusive attitudes	13
Development and psychometric properties of the Chinese Invalidating Family Scale	13
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Do couples who play together stay together? A longitudinal dyadic examination of shared leisure, financial distress, and relationship outcomes	12

Promoting Parental Positive Involvement and Skill Encouragement: Jewels of Clinical Change in a Parenting Program for Latine Immigrants Exposed to Adversity	12
A call for health justice: Striving toward health equity at a community health center	12
Risk Factors Disrupting Wholistic Wellness Among Indigenous Families During COVID ‐19	12
Effectiveness of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy in a Multidisciplinary Veterans Health Care Setting	12
We Gon' Be Alright: Examining Culturally Relevant Coping Strategies as Promotive Factors for Black Romantic Relationships	12
The role of veterans' PTSD symptoms in veteran couples' insomnia	12
The impact of cultural stress on family functioning among Puerto Rican displaced families and the effect on mental health	11
Latina mothers' cultural orientation and child self‐esteem: The mediating role of cultural socialization	11
Power dynamics in couple relationships: A review and applications for systemic family therapists	11
Coparenting support in the context of difficult children: Mother and father differences	11
Subjective emotion trajectories in couple therapy and associations with improvement in relationship satisfaction	11
Preparing for parenthood: Validating a mixed method approach to assessing the coparenting capacity of young expectant fathers and mothers	11
Partners Now Parents: Supporting Couples During the Journey to Parenthood	10
The use of emotionally focused therapy with polyamorous relationships	10
Construction of Fatherhood Among Socioeconomically Disadvantaged and Predominantly Black Fathers: A Grounded Theory Study	10
Multisystemic Therapy for Youths With Problem Sexual Behaviors: Development and Dissemination of a Family‐Based Treatment	10
A longitudinal comparative study of a multicouple group and single‐couple psychosocial intervention while experiencing infertility	10
Introduction to the Special Section on Contextual Therapy	10
Examining the stability of emotional regulation and psychological distress for low‐income individuals: A latent transition analysis	10
Issue Information	10
Younger Maternal Age at Childbirth and Children's Exposure to ACEs : Parental Emotional Support as a Moderator	10
The Multiracial‐Black Socialization Model: Conceptualizing racial socialization in Multiracial‐Black families	9
Past to Present: The Role of ACEs in Emotion Regulation and Emotion Regulation's Subsequent Association With Relationship Satisfaction in Couple Therapy	9
The McMaster Family Assessment Device (FAD) dimensions involved in the prediction of adolescent depressive symptoms and their mediating role in regard to socioeconomic status	9
Within‐family processes among safety nets, maternal parenting stress, and child behavioral problems among low‐income families: The importance of race and ethnicity	9
Using questionnaires as conversational tools to bolster the therapeutic alliance in family therapy practice	9
The elusive nature of neutrality: The role of values in couple therapy	8
Redefining Parental Dynamics: Exploring Mental Health, Happiness, and Positive Parenting Practices	8
The family alliance as a facilitator of therapeutic change in systemic relational psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder: A case study	8
Moderating Effect of Family Function Between Dysfunctional Thoughts and Emotional Distress in Dementia Caregivers: Kinship Differences	8
Seeking connection can trigger shame loops in couples: An attachment‐based understanding	8
Issue Information	8
Benefits and burdens of daily sacrifices and commitment in same‐ and different‐gender couples: Explorations of proximity and direction of effects	8
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Reciprocal Relationships Among Household Chaos, Parenting Stress, and Children's Behavioral Self‐Regulation From Early to Middle Childhood	8
Gendering of care and care inequalities in couple therapy	8
For richer, for poorer: Financial behaviors, power (im)balance, and relational aggression among different‐gender newlyweds in the U.S.	8
Social Support for Grief, Attachment, and Mental Health Among Bereaved Spouses During COVID‐19 Pandemic	8
Conflict and Father Involvement: The Unique Role of Postpartum Destructiveness for Fathers' Direct Care in Toddlerhood	7
Dyadic Reports of Interparental Relationship Quality and Intentions to Continue Fostering Among Coupled Foster Caregivers	7
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I can still hear my baby crying: The ambiguous loss of American Indian/Alaska Native birthmothers	7
Interventive Interviewing Revisited: An Updated Framework	7
Silencing or silent transmission? An exploratory study on trauma communication in Kurdish refugee families	7
Sexual beliefs in couple relationships: Exploring the pathways of mindfulness, communication, and sexual functioning on sexual passion and satisfaction	7
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Caregiving stress and maternal mental health during the COVID‐19 pandemic	7
Power and dialogue: A review of discursive research	7
A Critical Review of Reciprocal Cognitive Decline and Marital Quality Among East Asian Couples With Dementia: Implications for Research and Practice	7
Anatomy of the Relational Reframe in Attachment‐Based Family Therapy	7

Validation Study of the Portuguese Version of the Walsh Family Resilience Questionnaire	7
Family Connections: The Impact of an Education Program for Carers of Individuals With Borderline Personality Disorder in Italian Mental Health Services	7
Discrepancies in perceptions of PTSD symptoms among veteran couples: Links to poorer relationship and individual functioning	7
Some subtleties of whiteness in the workplace: Steps for shifting the paradigm	7
A structural equation model of parenting and child's resilience after the earthquake in Türkiye	7
Replication and extension of the military family stress model: The after deployment adaptive parenting tools ADAPT4U study	6
Searching for who benefits most and least: An analysis of moderators of the TRUE Dads fatherhood intervention	6
Early‐life family and school impacts on adolescent conduct problems: A path analysis	6
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Turning Everything Upside Down: The Impact of Illness on Romantic Relationships—A SEM ‐Based Actor‐Partner Interdependence Model	6
A conversation analysis of therapist repeats in open dialogue network meetings	6
“Family Connections”, a program for relatives of people with borderline personality disorder: A randomized controlled trial	6
Family Environment: Protective but Reactive Associations With Cumulative Stress and Arrest Following Multisystemic Therapy	6
How adult children of incarcerated parents experience ambiguous loss	6
Attachment Behaviors in Couples: Therapeutic Considerations for Systemic Therapists From the Revised Adult Attachment Behavior Q‐Set (AABQ‐R)	6
Emancipatory approaches in couples' intervention research	6
Application of Family Stress Theory: Predicting Wellbeing by Demands, Resources and Perceptions Among Caregivers of Older Adults	6
Relationship risk factors for intimate partner violence among sexual and gender minorities: A multilevel analysis	6
A closer look at the demographics of same‐sex marriage in the United States: Implications for research, practice, and policy	6
Mapping the Ecological Landscape: A Systematized Review of Climate‐ and Nature‐Related Content in Couple and Family Therapy Literature From 2009 to 2025	6
Sources of attitudes towards parent–child co‐sleeping and their effects: A systematic scoping review	6
Culturally humble and anti‐racist couple and family interventions for African Americans	6
Hopelessness for family members of individuals with borderline personality disorder	5
Relational concerns and change in relationship satisfaction in a relationship education program	5
Bidirectional relationships between parenting stress and child behavior problems in multi‐stressed, single‐mother families: A cross‐lagged panel model	5
Co‐occurring trajectory of housing stability and parenting stress with child behavior problems: A randomized trial of a housing intervention for young mothers experiencing homelessness	5
Healthy couple, better sleep: Exploring connections and changes in couple relationship education participants	5
The Co‐Parenting Across Family Structures Scale: Replication for Mandarin parents	5
“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 group	5
Parental involvement in Mexican‐origin adolescents' romantic relationships: An examination of parents' cultural orientations and parent‐youth relationships	5
Preliminary Effectiveness of Family Therapy for Perinatal Depressive Symptoms: Results From a Pilot Randomized Trial	5
Called to repair injustice: Connecting everyday practices to societal phenomena, creating momentum for solidarity and change	5
Increasing Parental Well‐Being After the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Through Relational Savoring	5
Maternal satisfaction with joint and sole child physical placement arrangements following separation in Wisconsin and Finland	5
Better together: Relationship quality and mental health among cardiac patients and spouses	5
The indirect impact of infant negative emotionality on interparental conflict via perceptions of coparenting challenges: What prenatal resources mitigate this risk?	5
Issue Information	5
Introduction to special section: Federally funded, community‐based healthy marriage and responsible fatherhood program impact studies	5
A Single‐Session Virtual Validation Intervention for Family Members of Youth Experiencing Emotion Dysregulation	5
The therapeutic alliance in couple therapy: Patterns by treatment and sex in a randomized controlled trial of emotionally focused therapy and treatment as usual	5
Session‐to‐session bidirectional associations of alliance with depressive symptoms and relationship satisfaction	5
Actor–Partner Model of Parenting and Co‐Parenting Practices and Youth Resilience During the COVID‐19 Pandemic	5
Developing Evidence‐Informed Support Groups for Families of Incarcerated People: Findings From a Qualitative Study	5
Is it me or my child? The association between maternal depression and children's behavior problems in mothers and their children with or without autism	5
Therapy as the Ethical Resolution of Doubt: Bringing Pragmatism and Reflexive Sociology to Systemic Practice	5
Attachment Insecurity and Coparenting Relationships: An Exploration of the Effects of a Couple‐Based Intervention for New Parents	5
The essence of contextual therapy, its place in the field of family therapy, and its role in the future	5
Two pathways to Mexico: Forced deportation or voluntary return of parents and US citizen children	5
Emotion regulation of the family therapist	5
Evaluation of the Health‐Related Quality of Life and Mental Health of Parents With Children and Adolescents With a Rare Disease Based on the Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial to Investigate a F	5
Losing a parent during childhood: The impact on adult romantic relationships	5
Affirmative Parenting of Sexual and Gender Diverse Youth: Findings From an Exploratory Qualitative Study	5
Spillover of Daily Parenting Experiences Into Interparental Relationships in Chinese Families of Children With Autism: Mediated by Daily Affect and Moderated by Trait Mindfulness	5
Material Hardship Trajectories From Infancy to Adolescence: Intergenerational Impact on Emerging Adults' Educational Pathways	5