OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Family Process is 4. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
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Prevalence and predictors of help‐seeking steps in a nationally representative Dutch sample of romantic couples	41
Stress Perception and Marital Instability Across the Family Life Cycle: An Actor‐Partner Perspective	35
Attending to the larger system in systemic therapy and family research	30
“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 Africa	26
Training of interventionists and cultural adaptation procedures: A systematic review of culturally adapted evidence‐based parenting programs in Africa	25
Issue Information	24
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
Actor–partner interdependence of socially prescribed parenting perfectionism and parental control in Chinese families	18
An exploration of potential pressures to engage in parenting accommodation of PTSD symptoms for military couples	18
“One man, one life, one marriage”: A qualitative analysis of Hmong women's divorce experiences	18
“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	17
Attachment‐based family therapy for sexual and gender minority young adults and their nonaccepting parents	17
The impact of couple and family interventions	17
One way or another…or both: Different roles of fathers, mothers, and adolescents in the intergenerational transmission of inclusive attitudes	16
Resolving relationship dissolution—What predicts emotional adjustment after breakup?	16
Transgenerational association of mentalization with child mental health: A scoping review	16
Treatment efficacy of multiple family therapy in helping Chinese children of depressed parents in Hong Kong, China	15
Family Resilience and Perceived Stress: A Three‐Level Meta‐Analysis	15
Impact evaluation of the family expectations program and moderation by sociodemographic disadvantage	15
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	15
Concurrent randomized control trials of the 1‐year efficacy of two couple relationship education programs: ELEVATE and Couples Connecting Mindfully	14
Do couples who play together stay together? A longitudinal dyadic examination of shared leisure, financial distress, and relationship outcomes	13
An intergenerational study of parental bonding on perceptions of parental and spousal criticism and marital relationship quality in Singapore	13
Desire discrepancy in long‐term relationships: A qualitative study with diverse couples	12

We Gon' Be Alright: Examining Culturally Relevant Coping Strategies as Promotive Factors for Black Romantic Relationships	12
Bidirectional longitudinal relationships between parents' marital satisfaction, parenting stress, and self‐compassion in China	12
Love in the time of COVID‐19: A systematic mapping review of empirical research on romantic relationships one year into the COVID‐19 pandemic	12
Issue Information	12
The bidirectional connection between family functioning and psychopathology: A network analysis in a large sample of adolescents with anorexia nervosa and their parents	11
Preparing for parenthood: Validating a mixed method approach to assessing the coparenting capacity of young expectant fathers and mothers	11
Longitudinal associations between relational and sexual well‐being in couples transitioning to parenthood	11
Dealing with couple infidelity in romantic relationships: A group intervention feasibility study	11
Development and psychometric properties of the Chinese Invalidating Family Scale	11
The role of veterans' PTSD symptoms in veteran couples' insomnia	11
A call for health justice: Striving toward health equity at a community health center	10
Parental worry about children: Scale development and validation among Chinese parents of preschool children	10
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Latina mothers' cultural orientation and child self‐esteem: The mediating role of cultural socialization	10
Coparenting support in the context of difficult children: Mother and father differences	10
Power dynamics in couple relationships: A review and applications for systemic family therapists	9
Effects of a brief parenting intervention on Latinx mothers and their children	9
The impact of cultural stress on family functioning among Puerto Rican displaced families and the effect on mental health	9
The use of emotionally focused therapy with polyamorous relationships	9
Subjective emotion trajectories in couple therapy and associations with improvement in relationship satisfaction	9
Partners Now Parents: Supporting Couples During the Journey to Parenthood	9
Multisystemic Therapy for Youths With Problem Sexual Behaviors: Development and Dissemination of a Family‐Based Treatment	9
Passings	9
Employment and child support outcomes among noncustodial fathers: An evaluation of the Fathers Advancing Community Together program	9
Latina mothers’ mental health: An examination of its relation to parenting and material resources	9
Examining the stability of emotional regulation and psychological distress for low‐income individuals: A latent transition analysis	9
A longitudinal comparative study of a multicouple group and single‐couple psychosocial intervention while experiencing infertility	8
Comparing individually based and family‐based treatments for internalizing, externalizing, and family symptoms in Latino youth	8
The Multiracial‐Black Socialization Model: Conceptualizing racial socialization in Multiracial‐Black families	8
For richer, for poorer: Financial behaviors, power (im)balance, and relational aggression among different‐gender newlyweds in the U.S.	8
The McMaster Family Assessment Device (FAD) dimensions involved in the prediction of adolescent depressive symptoms and their mediating role in regard to socioeconomic status	8
Using questionnaires as conversational tools to bolster the therapeutic alliance in family therapy practice	8
Introduction to the Special Section on Contextual Therapy	8
Dyadic effects of enacted stigma, internalized homophobia, and communal coping on depressive symptoms among cisgender sexual minority male couples	8
The family alliance as a facilitator of therapeutic change in systemic relational psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder: A case study	7
Moderating Effect of Family Function Between Dysfunctional Thoughts and Emotional Distress in Dementia Caregivers: Kinship Differences	7
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The elusive nature of neutrality: The role of values in couple therapy	7
Within‐family processes among safety nets, maternal parenting stress, and child behavioral problems among low‐income families: The importance of race and ethnicity	7
Benefits and burdens of daily sacrifices and commitment in same‐ and different‐gender couples: Explorations of proximity and direction of effects	7
Redefining Parental Dynamics: Exploring Mental Health, Happiness, and Positive Parenting Practices	7
Gendering of care and care inequalities in couple therapy	7
Past to Present: The Role of ACEs in Emotion Regulation and Emotion Regulation's Subsequent Association With Relationship Satisfaction in Couple Therapy	7
Social Support for Grief, Attachment, and Mental Health Among Bereaved Spouses During COVID‐19 Pandemic	7
Dyadic associations between COVID‐19‐related stress and mental well‐being among parents and children in Hong Kong: An actor–partner interdependence model approach	7
Seeking connection can trigger shame loops in couples: An attachment‐based understanding	7
How effective are ACF‐funded couple relationship education programs? A meta‐analytic study	6
The impact of responsible fatherhood programs on parenting, psychological well‐being, and financial outcomes: A randomized controlled trial	6
Couple variables predicting retention in a brief intervention and research	6
Discrepancies in perceptions of PTSD symptoms among veteran couples: Links to poorer relationship and individual functioning	6

Conflict and Father Involvement: The Unique Role of Postpartum Destructiveness for Fathers' Direct Care in Toddlerhood	6
Silencing or silent transmission? An exploratory study on trauma communication in Kurdish refugee families	6
Family Connections: The Impact of an Education Program for Carers of Individuals With Borderline Personality Disorder in Italian Mental Health Services	6
Reciprocal Relationships Among Household Chaos, Parenting Stress, and Children's Behavioral Self‐Regulation From Early to Middle Childhood	6
Early‐life family and school impacts on adolescent conduct problems: A path analysis	6
Issue Information	6
I can still hear my baby crying: The ambiguous loss of American Indian/Alaska Native birthmothers	6
Dyadic Reports of Interparental Relationship Quality and Intentions to Continue Fostering Among Coupled Foster Caregivers	6
Parental socialization of mental health in Chinese American families: What parents say and do, and how youth make meaning	6
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Validation of the Chinese version of the Walsh Family Resilience Questionnaire	6
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Some subtleties of whiteness in the workplace: Steps for shifting the paradigm	6
Caregiving stress and maternal mental health during the COVID‐19 pandemic	6
Power and dialogue: A review of discursive research	6
Validation Study of the Portuguese Version of the Walsh Family Resilience Questionnaire	6
“Family Connections”, a program for relatives of people with borderline personality disorder: A randomized controlled trial	5
Searching for who benefits most and least: An analysis of moderators of the TRUE Dads fatherhood intervention	5
Family functioning within the context of families with adolescent children in urban India	5
Sources of attitudes towards parent–child co‐sleeping and their effects: A systematic scoping review	5
Family Environment: Protective but Reactive Associations With Cumulative Stress and Arrest Following Multisystemic Therapy	5
Relationship risk factors for intimate partner violence among sexual and gender minorities: A multilevel analysis	5
Healthy couple, better sleep: Exploring connections and changes in couple relationship education participants	5
Losing a parent during childhood: The impact on adult romantic relationships	5
Application of Family Stress Theory: Predicting Wellbeing by Demands, Resources and Perceptions Among Caregivers of Older Adults	5
Sexual beliefs in couple relationships: Exploring the pathways of mindfulness, communication, and sexual functioning on sexual passion and satisfaction	5
How adult children of incarcerated parents experience ambiguous loss	5
A conversation analysis of therapist repeats in open dialogue network meetings	5
A closer look at the demographics of same‐sex marriage in the United States: Implications for research, practice, and policy	5
When not teaming up puts parents at risk: Coparenting and parental burnout in dual‐parent heterosexual families in Switzerland	5
The essence of contextual therapy, its place in the field of family therapy, and its role in the future	5
Replication and extension of the military family stress model: The after deployment adaptive parenting tools ADAPT4U study	5
Emancipatory approaches in couples' intervention research	5
A structural equation model of parenting and child's resilience after the earthquake in Türkiye	5
Reducing the incidence of domestic violence: An observational study of an equine‐assisted intervention	5
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Culturally humble and anti‐racist couple and family interventions for African Americans	5
Parents in couple therapy: An intervention targeting marital and coparenting relationships	5
Parental involvement in Mexican‐origin adolescents' romantic relationships: An examination of parents' cultural orientations and parent‐youth relationships	5
Mothers Under Pressure: Different Types of Pressure and Chinese Mothers' Quality of Homework Involvement in Daily Life	4
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Relational concerns and change in relationship satisfaction in a relationship education program	4
The roles of self‐regulation and partner regulation on romantic relationship quality	4
Hopelessness for family members of individuals with borderline personality disorder	4
Two pathways to Mexico: Forced deportation or voluntary return of parents and US citizen children	4
Emotion regulation of the family therapist	4
The Co‐Parenting Across Family Structures Scale: Replication for Mandarin parents	4
Preliminary Effectiveness of Family Therapy for Perinatal Depressive Symptoms: Results From a Pilot Randomized Trial	4
Spillover of Daily Parenting Experiences Into Interparental Relationships in Chinese Families of Children With Autism: Mediated by Daily Affect and Moderated by Trait Mindfulness	4
The Milan Approach today	4
Parenthood during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Post‐traumatic growth amongst university students	4
Bidirectional relationships between parenting stress and child behavior problems in multi‐stressed, single‐mother families: A cross‐lagged panel model	4
Attachment Insecurity and Coparenting Relationships: An Exploration of the Effects of a Couple‐Based Intervention for New Parents	4
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	4
The indirect impact of infant negative emotionality on interparental conflict via perceptions of coparenting challenges: What prenatal resources mitigate this risk?	4
Mobile application for couple relationships: Results of a pilot effectiveness study	4
“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	4
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	4
Rejunctive Moves Toward Systemic Healing: A Contextual Family Therapy Approach to Father’s Absence	4
The importance of relational ethics	4
Therapeutic Process Through an Analysis of Significant Events in Psychodramatic Family Therapy	4
What makes people feel loved? An exploratory study on core elements of love across family, romantic, and friend relationships	4
Actor–Partner Model of Parenting and Co‐Parenting Practices and Youth Resilience During the COVID‐19 Pandemic	4
Called to repair injustice: Connecting everyday practices to societal phenomena, creating momentum for solidarity and change	4
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	4
Issue Information	4
Session‐to‐session bidirectional associations of alliance with depressive symptoms and relationship satisfaction	4
The therapeutic alliance in couple therapy: Patterns by treatment and sex in a randomized controlled trial of emotionally focused therapy and treatment as usual	4
Introduction to special section: Federally funded, community‐based healthy marriage and responsible fatherhood program impact studies	4
Better together: Relationship quality and mental health among cardiac patients and spouses	4
Caregivers and interventionists: Developing a Dual Role Behaviors Scale for parents of children with autism spectrum disorders	4