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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Issue Information	81
“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	36
“One man, one life, one marriage”: A qualitative analysis of Hmong women's divorce experiences	32
An exploration of potential pressures to engage in parenting accommodation of PTSD symptoms for military couples	30
Differentiation of Self, Attachment Experiences, and Dyadic Adjustment: An APIM Approach With Spanish‐Speaking Couples	25
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	23
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Reframing Mental Health Through a Developmental–Ecological Lens: Childhood Adversity, Discrimination, and Family Connections in a Racially Diverse Maternal Sample	20
Stress Perception and Marital Instability Across the Family Life Cycle: An Actor‐Partner Perspective	20
Prevalence and predictors of help‐seeking steps in a nationally representative Dutch sample of romantic couples	19
An intergenerational study of parental bonding on perceptions of parental and spousal criticism and marital relationship quality in Singapore	18
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
Transgenerational association of mentalization with child mental health: A scoping review	17
The bidirectional connection between family functioning and psychopathology: A network analysis in a large sample of adolescents with anorexia nervosa and their parents	16
Desire discrepancy in long‐term relationships: A qualitative study with diverse couples	16
Dealing with couple infidelity in romantic relationships: A group intervention feasibility study	16
Family Resilience and Perceived Stress: A Three‐Level Meta‐Analysis	16
Issue Information	15
One way or another…or both: Different roles of fathers, mothers, and adolescents in the intergenerational transmission of inclusive attitudes	15
The role of veterans' PTSD symptoms in veteran couples' insomnia	14
We Gon' Be Alright: Examining Culturally Relevant Coping Strategies as Promotive Factors for Black Romantic Relationships	14
Risk Factors Disrupting Wholistic Wellness Among Indigenous Families During COVID ‐19	14
Do couples who play together stay together? A longitudinal dyadic examination of shared leisure, financial distress, and relationship outcomes	14
Development and psychometric properties of the Chinese Invalidating Family Scale	13
A Process Framework of Family AI Use in Early Education and Care	13

Longitudinal associations between relational and sexual well‐being in couples transitioning to parenthood	13
Latina mothers' cultural orientation and child self‐esteem: The mediating role of cultural socialization	13
Resolving relationship dissolution—What predicts emotional adjustment after breakup?	13
Coparenting support in the context of difficult children: Mother and father differences	13
Effectiveness of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy in a Multidisciplinary Veterans Health Care Setting	12
Partners Now Parents: Supporting Couples During the Journey to Parenthood	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
Multisystemic Therapy for Youths With Problem Sexual Behaviors: Development and Dissemination of a Family‐Based Treatment	12
Preparing for parenthood: Validating a mixed method approach to assessing the coparenting capacity of young expectant fathers and mothers	12
Issue Information	12
Power dynamics in couple relationships: A review and applications for systemic family therapists	12
Subjective emotion trajectories in couple therapy and associations with improvement in relationship satisfaction	11
The impact of cultural stress on family functioning among Puerto Rican displaced families and the effect on mental health	11
The use of emotionally focused therapy with polyamorous relationships	11
Examining the stability of emotional regulation and psychological distress for low‐income individuals: A latent transition analysis	11
Issue Information	11
Construction of Fatherhood Among Socioeconomically Disadvantaged and Predominantly Black Fathers: A Grounded Theory Study	10
Using questionnaires as conversational tools to bolster the therapeutic alliance in family therapy practice	10
Past to Present: The Role of ACEs in Emotion Regulation and Emotion Regulation's Subsequent Association With Relationship Satisfaction in Couple Therapy	10
A longitudinal comparative study of a multicouple group and single‐couple psychosocial intervention while experiencing infertility	10
The family alliance as a facilitator of therapeutic change in systemic relational psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder: A case study	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
Social Support for Grief, Attachment, and Mental Health Among Bereaved Spouses During COVID‐19 Pandemic	9
Redefining Parental Dynamics: Exploring Mental Health, Happiness, and Positive Parenting Practices	9
The elusive nature of neutrality: The role of values in couple therapy	9
Introduction to the Special Section on Contextual Therapy	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
For richer, for poorer: Financial behaviors, power (im)balance, and relational aggression among different‐gender newlyweds in the U.S.	9
Gendering of care and care inequalities 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
Benefits and burdens of daily sacrifices and commitment in same‐ and different‐gender couples: Explorations of proximity and direction of effects	9
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Seeking connection can trigger shame loops in couples: An attachment‐based understanding	9
Reciprocal Relationships Among Household Chaos, Parenting Stress, and Children's Behavioral Self‐Regulation From Early to Middle Childhood	8
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Sources of attitudes towards parent–child co‐sleeping and their effects: A systematic scoping review	8
Conflict and Father Involvement: The Unique Role of Postpartum Destructiveness for Fathers' Direct Care in Toddlerhood	8
Moderating Effect of Family Function Between Dysfunctional Thoughts and Emotional Distress in Dementia Caregivers: Kinship Differences	8
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Discrepancies in perceptions of PTSD symptoms among veteran couples: Links to poorer relationship and individual functioning	8
Dyadic Reports of Interparental Relationship Quality and Intentions to Continue Fostering Among Coupled Foster Caregivers	8
The Additive Labor of Survival: A Scoping Review of Black Familial Strategization in Preparation for Police Interactions	8
Caregiving stress and maternal mental health during the COVID‐19 pandemic	8
Some subtleties of whiteness in the workplace: Steps for shifting the paradigm	8
Sexual beliefs in couple relationships: Exploring the pathways of mindfulness, communication, and sexual functioning on sexual passion and satisfaction	8
Family Environment: Protective but Reactive Associations With Cumulative Stress and Arrest Following Multisystemic Therapy	7
A Critical Review of Reciprocal Cognitive Decline and Marital Quality Among East Asian Couples With Dementia: Implications for Research and Practice	7

“Family Connections”, a program for relatives of people with borderline personality disorder: A randomized controlled trial	7
Power and dialogue: A review of discursive research	7
Interventive Interviewing Revisited: An Updated Framework	7
Family Connections: The Impact of an Education Program for Carers of Individuals With Borderline Personality Disorder in Italian Mental Health Services	7
A conversation analysis of therapist repeats in open dialogue network meetings	7
Anatomy of the Relational Reframe in Attachment‐Based Family Therapy	7
Relational Memory Reconsolidation: A New Lens on Change Mechanisms in EFT for Couples	7
Searching for who benefits most and least: An analysis of moderators of the TRUE Dads fatherhood intervention	7
Early‐life family and school impacts on adolescent conduct problems: A path analysis	7
Attachment Behaviors in Couples: Therapeutic Considerations for Systemic Therapists From the Revised Adult Attachment Behavior Q‐Set (AABQ‐R)	7
Silencing or silent transmission? An exploratory study on trauma communication in Kurdish refugee families	7
Culturally humble and anti‐racist couple and family interventions for African Americans	7
How adult children of incarcerated parents experience ambiguous loss	7
A closer look at the demographics of same‐sex marriage in the United States: Implications for research, practice, and policy	7
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I can still hear my baby crying: The ambiguous loss of American Indian/Alaska Native birthmothers	7
Validation Study of the Portuguese Version of the Walsh Family Resilience Questionnaire	7
Emancipatory approaches in couples' intervention research	7
A structural equation model of parenting and child's resilience after the earthquake in Türkiye	7
Introduction to special section: Federally funded, community‐based healthy marriage and responsible fatherhood program impact studies	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
Session‐to‐session bidirectional associations of alliance with depressive symptoms and relationship satisfaction	6
The essence of contextual therapy, its place in the field of family therapy, and its role in the future	6
Emotion regulation of the family therapist	6
A Single‐Session Virtual Validation Intervention for Family Members of Youth Experiencing Emotion Dysregulation	6
Spillover of Daily Parenting Experiences Into Interparental Relationships in Chinese Families of Children With Autism: Mediated by Daily Affect and Moderated by Trait Mindfulness	6
Application of Family Stress Theory: Predicting Wellbeing by Demands, Resources and Perceptions Among Caregivers of Older Adults	6
Replication and extension of the military family stress model: The after deployment adaptive parenting tools ADAPT4U study	6
The therapeutic alliance in couple therapy: Patterns by treatment and sex in a randomized controlled trial of emotionally focused therapy and treatment as usual	6
Relationship risk factors for intimate partner violence among sexual and gender minorities: A multilevel analysis	6
The Co‐Parenting Across Family Structures Scale: Replication for Mandarin parents	6
Two pathways to Mexico: Forced deportation or voluntary return of parents and US citizen children	6
Preliminary Effectiveness of Family Therapy for Perinatal Depressive Symptoms: Results From a Pilot Randomized Trial	6
Turning Everything Upside Down: The Impact of Illness on Romantic Relationships—A SEM ‐Based Actor‐Partner Interdependence Model	6
Parental involvement in Mexican‐origin adolescents' romantic relationships: An examination of parents' cultural orientations and parent‐youth relationships	6
“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	6
Losing a parent during childhood: The impact on adult romantic relationships	6
Healthy couple, better sleep: Exploring connections and changes in couple relationship education participants	6
Issue Information	6
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	6
Parenthood during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Post‐traumatic growth amongst university students	5
The Milan Approach today	5
Actor–Partner Model of Parenting and Co‐Parenting Practices and Youth Resilience During the COVID‐19 Pandemic	5
Material Hardship Trajectories From Infancy to Adolescence: Intergenerational Impact on Emerging Adults' Educational Pathways	5
Better together: Relationship quality and mental health among cardiac patients and spouses	5
Affirmative Parenting of Sexual and Gender Diverse Youth: Findings From an Exploratory Qualitative Study	5
Rejunctive Moves Toward Systemic Healing: A Contextual Family Therapy Approach to Father’s Absence	5
Caregivers and interventionists: Developing a Dual Role Behaviors Scale for parents of children with autism spectrum disorders	5
Evidence and couple and family therapy	5
Ways of Supporting Coparenting in Child and Family Services: Discourses of Involvement, Capacity Building and Reconciliation	5
Mothers Under Pressure: Different Types of Pressure and Chinese Mothers' Quality of Homework Involvement in Daily Life	5
Developing Evidence‐Informed Support Groups for Families of Incarcerated People: Findings From a Qualitative Study	5
The indirect impact of infant negative emotionality on interparental conflict via perceptions of coparenting challenges: What prenatal resources mitigate this risk?	5
Parent or Child Driven? Associations Over Time Between Parental Depressive Symptoms, Parental Locus of Control, and Child Negative Emotionality in US Military Families	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
Hopelessness for family members of individuals with borderline personality disorder	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
Neighborhood disadvantage is associated with biological aging: Intervention‐induced enhancement of couple functioning confers resilience	5
Marital satisfaction in covenant versus standard marriages: Is there a difference?	5
The transition to Teletherapy: Experiences of emotionally focused therapists	5
What makes people feel loved? An exploratory study on core elements of love across family, romantic, and friend relationships	5
The importance of relational ethics	5
Maternal satisfaction with joint and sole child physical placement arrangements following separation in Wisconsin and Finland	5
Therapy as the Ethical Resolution of Doubt: Bringing Pragmatism and Reflexive Sociology to Systemic Practice	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
Relational concerns and change in relationship satisfaction in a relationship education program	5
Attachment Insecurity and Coparenting Relationships: An Exploration of the Effects of a Couple‐Based Intervention for New Parents	5
Therapeutic Process Through an Analysis of Significant Events in Psychodramatic Family Therapy	5
Introduction to a special section: Racial disparities in health care	5
Navigating a Romantic Partner's Gender Transition	5