OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of American Journal of Family Therapy 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The Experiences of Marriage and Family Therapists Working in Incarcerated Settings	25
Coparenting from Prison: An Examination of Incarcerated Fathers’ Consensus of Coparenting	24
Clinical Implications for Culturally Informed Counseling with Incarcerated Individuals	24
Differentiation of Self Predicts Life Satisfaction through Marital Adjustment	19
The Tadros Theory of Change with Incarcerated Populations	14
The Importance of the ‘Village’: Examining the Association between Social Supports and Hazardous Alcohol Use among Mothers with an Incarcerated Coparent	12
Striving to Thrive: A Qualitative Study on Fostering a Relational Perspective Through Narrative Therapy in Couples Facing Cancer	10
The Not-Forgotten Child: Alienated Adult Children’s Experience of Parental Alienation	10
A Call for Mental Health Treatment in Incarcerated Settings with Transgender Individuals	9
Systemic Racism and Family Therapy	8
Are Barriers to Psychotherapy Treatment Seeking Indicators of Social Determinants of Health?: A Critical Review of the Literature	8
Evaluation of Family Burden and Quality of Life of Parents with Children with Disability	8
Differentiation of Self and Its Relationship with Emotional Self-Regulation and Anxiety in a Spanish Sample	7
Providing Immediate Hope to Survivors of Natural Disasters: A Miracle Question Intervention	7
Exploring the Nature of Loneliness among Older People in Rural Ghana	7
Stress Experienced and Meaning-Making of Couples with Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Phenomenological Study	6
The Costs of Caregiving: Exploring the Perceived Burden of Dementia among Bangladeshi Caregivers in Britain	6
A Summative Content Analysis of Stress and Coping among Parents of Children with Autism	6
Changes in Relationship Quality in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Associations with Pandemic Stressors and Couple Communication	5
Addressing Problematic Pornography Use in Adolescent/Young Adult Males: A Literature Review and Recommendations for Family Therapists	5
The Structural Model of Marital Quality Based on Secure Attachment Style through the Mediating Role of Self-Compassion, Resilience, and Perspective-Taking	5
Perceived Discrimination as a Mediator of ACEs and Psychological Distress	4
Identifying Experiences and Hopelessness Levels of Women Receiving Infertility Treatment: A Mixed Method Study	4
Discrimination, Depression, and Dyads: Experiences of Discrimination Influence the Partner Relationship	4
The Mediating Role of Dyadic Coping on the Effects of Covid-19 and Relationship Satisfaction among Turkish Couples	4

Recurrent Misinformation Regarding Parental Alienation Theory	4
Marriage or Career? Young Adults’ Priorities in Their Life Plans	4
The Differentiation of Self Inventory – Revised: A Validation Study in the Greek Cultural Context	4
Differentiation of Self, Couple Adjustment and Family Life Cycle: A Cross-Sectional Study	4
Examining the Role of the Attachment Bond in the Process of Recovering from an Affair	4
Effects of Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) Techniques and Psychoeducation on Self-Efficacy and Care Burden in Families of Patients with Schizophrenia	3
The Association between Familial and Parental Factors and the Impostor Phenomenon—A Systematic Review	3
The Effect of Problem-Solving Based Family Therapy on Emotional Intimacy and Marital Quality of Cultural Couples in Tabriz	3
Nuclear Family Emotional Functioning and Marital Satisfaction: The Cultural Lens of Self-Construal	3
Reviewing the Social GRACES: What Do They Add and Limit in Systemic Thinking and Practice?	3
Black and White Couples: Exploring the Role of Religiosity on Perceived Racial Discrimination and Relationship Satisfaction	3
The Impact of Materialism, Counseling, and Financial Status on Physical Health	3
How is Family Therapy Discussed in the Literature on Incarceration?: A Systematic Review	3
The Role of the Solution-Focused Brief Therapist in Client-Led Problem Talks	3
The Global Outcomes of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: A Revision	3
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	3
The Relationship between the Presence of Depression and Attachment Styles of Mothers with Autistic Children	3
Culturally Competent Therapy with Latinxs: Addressing Isolation	3
Academic Well-Being of Immigrants with Pre-Migration War Traumas: The Role of Parents, Teachers and Language Proficiency	2
Investigation of the Effectiveness of the Combined Couple Therapy for Couples on the Improvement of Intimacy and PTSD	2
Variables of Parental Role Satisfaction: Social Support, Spousal Support, Parental Stress and Life Satisfaction	2
Integrating a Process-Orientation into Multicultural Training for Marriage and Family Therapists: A Systematic Review and Critique	2
Marital Problem Solving Interaction and Satisfaction: A Microanalytic Study	2
The Lived Experience of Marriage and Family Therapy Doctoral Graduates: A Phenomenological Study	2
A Systemic Treatment of Families with a Child Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder Using a Narrative Lens	2
“Your Exile is Showing”: Integrating Sandtray with Internal Family Systems Therapy	2
The Effectiveness of a ToM Training Program in Promoting Intimacy between Married Couples	2
Treatment of Adolescent Non-Suicidal Self-Injury: A Review of Family Factors and Family Therapy	2
Effect of Self-Healing Intervention Program on Psychological Well-Being and Marital Satisfaction of Women Victimized by Domestic Violence	2
Parental Attitudes and Social Emotional Well-Being Predict Digital Game Addiction in Turkish Children	2
Psychological Adaptation among Marriage Migrant Women in South Korea: Stress and Coping, Culture Learning, and Social Cognition Approaches	2
Understanding Targeted Parents’ Experience of Parental Alienation: A Qualitative Description from Their Own Perspective	2
Relations of Family-of-Origin Communication Patterns to Attachment and Satisfaction in Emerging Adults’ Romantic Relationships	2
Was the Quality of Sexual Life Affected during the COVID-19 Pandemic?	2
Trauma Symptoms and Relationship Satisfaction: An Examination of Self and Partner Contribution in Dual-Trauma Outpatient Clinical Couples	2
The Effectiveness of Attachment Injury Resolution Model (AIRM) on Increasing Trust among the Injured Women with Marital Infidelity: A Case Study Approach	2
The Lived Experiences of Caregivers of Children with Sickle Cell Disease: A Phenomenological Study	2
Can Family Patterns Help Adolescents Establish Intimate Social Relationships with Peers?	2
Mothers’ Experiences of Navigating the Sud Treatment System with Their Young Adult Child	2
Marriage and Family Therapists’ Reporting of Telehealth Use on Practice Websites during COVID-19: A Linguistic Analysis	1
Young Adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa—The Cooperation between Parents and Medical Personnel in Stationary Treatment	1
Family Therapy for School Nonattendance Problems: A Narrative Approach	1
The Effect of Anger Management Training on Tendency to Violence in High School Students: An Experimental Study in Turkey	1
Existential Humanistic Therapy with Couples and its Effect on Meaning of Life and Love Attitudes	1
Parental Alienation: Targeted Parent Experience in Turkey	1
The relationship between marital satisfaction of patients with multiple sclerosis (the patients’ spouses) with the interpersonal dependency and personality type	1
Lay Beliefs about the Possibility of Finding Enduring Love: A Mediator of the Effect of Parental Relationship Quality on Own Romantic Relationship Quality	1
Marital Satisfaction in Relation to Big Five, Punitiveness, Unrelenting Standard and Self-Compassion	1
Exploratory Analysis of Pursue-Withdraw Patterns, Attachment, and Gender among Couples in Emotionally Focused Therapy	1
Gender Differences in the Relationships between Parental Marital Conflict, Differentiation from the Family of Origin, and Children’s Marital Stability	1

Family Function Associated with Psychological Symptoms in Pregnant Women during Pandemic of COVID-19	1
Comparison of Attachment Injury Resolution Model and Integrative Couple Therapy on Trust Reconstruction among the Injured Women by Marital Infidelity	1
Why Am I the Only One You’re Talking to, Talk to Them, They Haven’t Said a Word?	1
Spirituality-Based Counseling Improves Family Relationships and Quality of Life among Cohabiting South Asian Mothers-in-Law and Daughters-in-Law	1
Relationship Context, Body-Esteem, Religiosity, and Sexual Experience: Associations with Well-Being and Relationship Status	1
A Pilot Study on Program Leadership Styles and Student Perceptions of Competency in Marriage and Family Therapy Programs	1
Regaining Courage to Leave Abusive Relationships: Theoretical Framework	1
Building the Pyramid That Leads to Client’s Progress: Supervision, Therapists’ Work, and Client Alliance	1
Marital Communication as Moderators of the Relationship between Marital Conflict Resolution and Marital Satisfaction	1
Exploring the Unique Associations of Parent–Adult Child Relationships and Ongoing Parental Romantic Relationships with Adult Children’s Romantic Relationships	1
Two Good Forgivers? Forgiveness as a Moderator of the Association between Similarity of Financial Values and Relationship Flourishing	1
Breaking Hearts: Ethically Handling Transference and Countertransference in Therapy	1
Parental Conflict and Depression: Family Cohesion as a Mechanism Perpetuates Schemas and Affects the Perception of Social Support	1
The Effect of Cognitive Behavioral Approach-Based Psychoeducation on the Levels of Coping With Hopelessness and Stress of Parents of Children With Cancer	1
Anxiety Explains Self-Differentiation: Implications for Bowenian Approaches to Marriage and Family Therapy	1
The Mediating Role of Five Love Languages between Differentiation of Self and Marital Satisfaction	1
Internet Gaming Disorder in Adolescents: Clinical Considerations and an Attachment-Based Treatment Approach	1