OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of American Journal of Family Therapy is 0. 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
Conceptualizing Couples’ Unresolvable Conflicts: An Integrative Therapy Model	11
The Relationship Between Attachment Styles and Marital Quality in College Students: The Mediating Role of Marital Reminiscence Styles	10
When Your Emotions Drain My Flexibility: A Dyadic Analysis of Emotion Regulation, Cognitive Flexibility, and Life Satisfaction in Marriage	8
A Voice in the Minds of Love Addicts: Textual Analysis of Clinical Interviews	7
The Effects of Parental Adverse Childhood Experiences on Their Children: A Theoretical Framework for Applying Attachment-Based Treatment Models with Parents and Adolescents	6
The Associations between Sexual Intimacy, Body Appreciation, and Geriatric Depression Levels in Married Older Adults	5
To Be Released from Debt: An Experiential-Cognitive Case Conceptualization of Forgiveness and Healing for a First Time Couple Infidelity	5
Marriages in the Grip of Phubbed: Dyadic Analysis of FoMO and Dyadic Adjustment	5
Satir’s Experiential Model Informed by Critical Theory: A Trans-Inclusive Case Study Analysis	4
Post-Infidelity Interventions in Couple Therapy: A Systematic Thematic Synthesis of Change Processes Across Therapeutic Approaches	4
The Lived Experience: Individuals, Couples, and Families Who Endured A Natural Disaster	4
Couple Burnout and Marital Satisfaction: Serial Mediation by Mindfulness and Emotion Regulation	4
Changes in Family Planning Methods and Sexual Behaviors after Türkiye’s Earthquake and the Effect of on Quality of Sexual Life	4
The Dyadic Coping Inventory and Mental Health Across Various Stress Contexts: A Decade in Review	3
Money Can’t Buy Healing: Exploring Succession’s Portrayal of Trauma, Identity, and Family Systems	3
The Adoptive Family as a Natural System: Emotional Process and Epigenetics	3
Couple Case Conceptualization	3
The Relationship Between Attachment Styles and Marital Satisfaction: The Mediating Role of Positive Relational Behaviors	3
Indirect Parenting Interventions, Neuroscience and the Parent-Child Relationship: Second-Order Parenting	3
Finding the Supervision Key of Therapists’ Progress	3
‘You’d Still be You, and I Still Love You’: Exploring the Impact of Breast Cancer from a Systemic Perspective	3
Creating Therapeutic Stories Through Case Conceptualizations in Couple Therapy	2
Constructing the Couple: A Constructivist Framework for Creating Treatable Couple Systems	2
Investigating the Mediating Role of Self-Differentiation and Emotion Regulation in the Relationship between Dyadic Perfectionism and Marital Satisfaction	2
Exploratory Analysis of Pursue-Withdraw Patterns, Attachment, and Gender among Couples in Emotionally Focused Therapy	2

Infertility Together: Utilizing Gottman Method Couple Therapy with Couples Navigating Infertility	2
Parental Conflict and Depression: Family Cohesion as a Mechanism Perpetuates Schemas and Affects the Perception of Social Support	2
The Relationship between Maternal Gatekeeping and Fathers’ Involvement in Caring for Preschool Children with Special Needs	2
Exploring a Family-First Approach in Addiction Treatment: A Conceptual Shift	2
Beyond Discipline: How Parental Practices Shape Early Child Development and Self-Regulation	1
Perinatal Suicidal Ideation and Couple Therapy	1
Incorporating Lifestyle Factors into Family Therapy: The Powerful Influence of Sleep, Exercise, and Diet	1
A Task Analysis of Key Processes to Access an Exiled Part in Internal Family Systems	1
Firefighter Relationship Satisfaction: Associations with Mental Health Outcomes	1
The Process of Using the Self of the Therapist in EFT: A Grounded Theory Study	1
Couple Relationship Education Through mHealth: A Two-Year Follow-Up Quasi-Experimental Study	1
Implementing an Interprofessional Education Program in Marriage and Family Therapy: Preparing Students for Interprofessional Practice	1
Assessing Parentification Within a Predominately African American Student Sample: Exploratory Factor Analysis of the Parentification Questionnaire (Session & Jurvokic, 1986)	1
“Nothing Will Ever Be the Same Again”: The Lived Experience of Reconciliation After Filing for Divorce	1
How Long-Term Couples Cope with Chronic Stressors and Adverse Life Course Events in Marriage: A Qualitative Study	1
Treating Adolescent OCD: Recommendations for Systemic Clinical Competence	1
“Family Illness Beliefs - Perspectives of Families Living with Mental Illness”	1
Social Comparison as a Barrier to Relationship Satisfaction through a Weakened Sense of Self	1
Modern Challenges of Individuals in Interracial Relationships in a Racialized Society: A Thematic Analysis	1
Mindfulness in Patients with Cancer is Predictive of Their Partners’ Lowered Cancer-Related Distress: An Actor-Partner Interdependence Model of Spirituality and Mindfulness in Dyads Facing Cancer	1
Attachment and Post-Divorce Growth Among Korean Women: Indirect Pathways via Self-Efficacy Moderated by Social Support	1
The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Intimate Partner Relationships	1
Becoming My Mother’s Mother: Inverted Dependency and the Good Enough Daughter	1
Countering Arguments Against Parental Alienation as A Form of Family Violence and Child Abuse	1
Correction	1
Correction	0
An Exploration of the Relationship Between Family of Origin Belonging, Family Peace, and Marital Instability	0
An Evaluation of Quality of Life and Hopelessness Among Parents of Children with Disabilities	0
Families and Individuals Living with Trauma: A Guide for Therapists, Relatives, and Friends	0
Perceived Family Benefits Overshadowed Parentification in Predicting Life Satisfaction and Relationship Satisfaction	0
An Analysis of Women’s Lived Experience of Their Husbands’ Emotional Support in Crisis Situations	0
Case Conceptualization Using Gottman Method Couple Therapy	0
The Effect of Sexual Counseling for Infertile Couples According to the PLISSIT Model on Sexual Function and Sexual Satisfaction	0
School-Based Family Counseling for Crisis and Disaster: Global Perspectives	0
Becoming Positive Father: Exploring Parent Support Program Based on Positive Psychotherapy	0
The Salience of Attachment Behaviors to Relational Health for Couples across Four Racial Groups	0
Exploring the Unique Associations of Parent–Adult Child Relationships and Ongoing Parental Romantic Relationships with Adult Children’s Romantic Relationships	0
Phubbing as a Mediator Between Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) and Social Media Burnout in Married Couples	0
Married Individuals’ Attitudes Toward Family and Couple Therapy: A Qualitative Study in the Turkish Context	0
Evaluating Amplification Effects in Family Systems Therapies: Challenges for Researchers and Clinicians	0
Childhood Sexual Abuse and Couple Relationships: A Grounded Theory on Healing	0
The Relationship Between Attachment and Spiritual Well-Being with Marital Satisfaction in Women with a History of Child Marriage	0
Marital Adjustment and Mindfulness Among Married Individuals: The Mediating Roles of Emotional Intelligence and Sexual Satisfaction	0
The Satir Growth Model: A Systemic Framework for Supporting Families Affected by Substance Use Disorder	0
The Mediating Role of Maternal Gatekeeping between Father Involvement and Father-Child Relationship	0
The Mediating Role of Sense of Coherence and Self-Critical Rumination Between Mindful Parenting and Psychological Distress in Adolescents and Parents	0
Family Therapy: The Basics	0
Special Issue of the American Journal of Family Therapy: Couple Case Conceptualization	0
Using the 7 A’s to Address Infidelity and Other Relationship Injuries	0
Gambling addiction and the impact on significant others: A systematic review	0

Internet Gaming Disorder in Adolescents: Clinical Considerations and an Attachment-Based Treatment Approach	0
Bowen Family Systems Family Theory for Virtual Treatment of Endometriosis in Spanish: A Case Study	0
Evaluation of Learned Resourcefulness and Marital Adjustment in Individuals With and Without Disabilities	0
Marriage Myths Scale: Development and Validation in a Turkish Cultural Context	0
The Role of Subconscious Factors in Determining the Quality of Marital Life of Iranian Couples: An Imago Relationships Therapy Perspective	0
Increased Relationship Quality in Couples Relieves Individual Suffering Following Systemic Therapy: A Hierarchical Mediation Analysis	0
Parenting Warmth, Trait Emotional Intelligence, Positive Conflict Resolution and Marital Quality: Structural Equation Modeling	0
Examining the Association Between Engagement in Shared Relationship Activities, Couple Quality, and Negative Interactions	0
A Therapeutic Team’s Interventions and Their Perception of Parental Reactions Towards Them: A Child’s Psychiatric Inpatient Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa	0
Associations Between Mindfulness and Conflict Resolution in Couple Relationships: Dyadic Data Analysis	0
Premarital Concerns Among Iranian Couples: A Four-Dimensional Thematic Analysis and Implications for Counseling	0
Correction	0
Variables of Parental Role Satisfaction: Social Support, Spousal Support, Parental Stress and Life Satisfaction	0
Case Conceptualization Using Emotionally Focused Therapy with Couples	0
The Effect of Telehealth Marriage Checkup on Improvement of Marital Quality in Newlywed Couples	0
Psychological Dating Violence, Self-Compassion, and Depression in Turkish Women: Validation of the PDV-Q	0
Exploring Couple and Family Therapy Approaches for Addressing Intergenerational Trauma in Iran: A Mixed-Methods Study	0
Evaluating Reunification Therapy from the Child’s Perspective: Family Reunification and Restoration Program (FRRP)	0
The Effect of Mothers’ Attachment Styles on Separation Anxiety in Children with Autism	0
Using Case Conceptualizations in Imago Relationship Therapy	0
Financial Factors and Couple Relationship Satisfaction: A Systematic Review Using the TCCM Framework	0
Adult Parental Attachment and Adolescent Psychological Problems: Mediating Role of Adult Emotional Processes in the Family	0
Impact of Expectant Father’s Depression on Health-Promoting Behaviors and Marital Adjustment	0
Mapping the Landscape of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: A Bibliometric Analysis	0
Relations of Family-of-Origin Communication Patterns to Attachment and Satisfaction in Emerging Adults’ Romantic Relationships	0
Social Justice Pedagogy for Master’s Level Marriage and Family Therapy Students	0
Self-Compassion Through a Relational Lens: An Analysis of How the Rewards Extend Beyond the Individual	0
A Network Analysis of the Relationship Between Interpersonal Mindfulness, Emotion Regulation, and Emotional Divorce Among Iranian Couples	0
Addressing Internet Addiction Among Adolescents: A Literature Review and a Proposal of Guidelines for Psychotherapists and Mental Health Workers	0
The Relationship Between Attachment Styles and Marital Satisfaction: The Mediating Role of Storytelling Enjoyment and Narrative Mindset	0
Online Shopping Carts Are Full, Relationships Empty? Spouse Burnout as a Mediator Between Online Shopping Addiction and Marital Satisfaction	0
Book Review: Charlie, Are You Daydreaming Again?	0
Evaluating Experimental Studies in Couple Therapy: Some Implications for Assessment and Best Practices	0
The Effectiveness of Integrated Transcendental Group Therapy on Marital Satisfaction	0
Predicting Marital Satisfaction Based on Self-Compassion and Attachment to God: The Mediating Role of Cognitive Emotion Regulation	0
Assessing Marital and Couple Systems: Some Pragmatic Considerations	0
The Effect of Mindfulness-Based Training on the Level of Depression in Mothers of Children with Down Syndrome	0
The Mediating Role of the Disconnection and Rejection Schema in the Relationship Between Family of Origin Experiences and Coping Attitudes	0
Winning Together: In-Session Change with Chronically Conflictual Couples	0
Adlerian Life Style Investigation & Case Conceptualization for Couples Counseling	0
The Structural Model of the Relationship Between Emotion Regulation and Romantic Relationship Quality: The Mediating Role of Relationship Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (ROCD)	0
The Couple Therapist-Supporting and Undermining Behavior Scale: An Exploratory Factor Analysis	0
Using Family Systems Theory in Counseling Mixed-Faith Latter-Day Saint Couples After a Religious Disaffiliation	0
Parental Attitudes and Social Emotional Well-Being Predict Digital Game Addiction in Turkish Children	0