OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Marital and 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Collaborative Care at a Distance: Student Therapists' Experiences of Learning and Delivering Relationally Focused Telemental Health	37
Couple and family therapy for substance use disorders: Evidence‐based update 2010–2019	25
Couple teletherapy in the era of COVID‐19: Experiences and recommendations	21
Moral distress of medical family therapists and their physician colleagues during the transition to COVID‐19	21
Helping couples achieve relationship success: A decade of progress in couple relationship education research and practice, 2010–2019	20
Attachment‐based family therapy in the age of telehealth and COVID‐19	17
A 20‐Year Review of Common Factors Research in Marriage and Family Therapy: A Mixed Methods Content Analysis	16
Videoconferencing psychotherapy for couples and families: A systematic review	15
Relational teletherapy experiences of couple and family therapy trainees: “Reading the room,” exhaustion, and the comforts of home	14
“It’s splendid once you grow into it:” Client experiences of relational teletherapy in the era of COVID‐19	14
Toward proficiency in telebehavioral health: applying interprofessional competencies in couple and family therapy	13
A review of the research during 2010–2019 on evidence‐based treatments for couple relationship distress	13
Family based treatment of anxiety disorders: A review of the literature (2010–2019)	12
Introduction to the special issue on the efficacy and effectiveness of couple and family interventions: Evidence base update 2010–2019	12
The sexual wholeness model: An initial evaluation with two samples	12
Satisfaction or connectivity?: Implications from the strong relationality model of flourishing couple relationships	12
Deconstructing cissexism: The journey of becoming an affirmative family therapist for transgender and nonbinary clients	11
The transition to teletherapy in marriage and family therapy training settings during COVID‐19: What do the data tell us?	11
Adult ADHD and romantic relationships: What we know and what we can do to help	11
Therapeutic alliance as a predictor of behavioral outcomes in a relationally focused, family‐centered telehealth intervention	10
Competency‐based training in the supervision of relational telemental supervision	10
Family‐of‐origin rejection on suicidal ideation among a sexual minority sample	10
Review of family‐based treatments from 2010 to 2019 for suicidal ideation and behavior	10
“The troublesome other and I”: Parallel stories of separated parents in prolonged conflicts	9
Reducing mental health disparities among racially and ethnically diverse populations: A review of couple and family intervention research methods (2010–2019)	9

Standing and Responding in Solidarity with Disenfranchised Immigrant Families in the United States: An Ongoing Call for Action	9
Conceptual framework for telehealth strategies to increase family involvement in treatment and recovery for youth opioid use disorder	9
Systemic teletherapists' meaningful experiences during the first months of the coronavirus pandemic	9
The effects of gender identity change efforts on Black, Latinx, and White transgender and gender nonbinary adults: Implications for ethical clinical practice	9
Way of being and the therapeutic pyramid: Expanding the application of a common factors meta‐model	8
Couple and family interventions for high mortality health conditions: A strategic review (2010–2019)	8
A call to action: Online learning and distance education in the training of couple and family therapists	8
Individual mental health and couple functioning following couple relationship education participation: Exploring prospective cross‐lagged influences among changes	8
Using systemic interventions to reduce intimate partner violence or child maltreatment: A systematic review of publications between 2010 and 2019	8
The politics of vulnerable masculinity in couple therapy	8
Online relationship education programs improve individual and relationship functioning: A meta‐analytic review	8
Eliciting Stance and Mitigating Therapist Authority in Open Dialogue Meetings	7
Family‐based treatments for disruptive behavior problems in children and adolescents: An updated review of rigorous studies (2014–April 2020)	7
Trauma, social media, and #WhyIDidntReport: An analysis of twitter posts about reluctance to report sexual assault	7
Couple and family interventions for depressive and bipolar disorders: Evidence base update (2010–2019)	7
The role of relationship dissatisfaction in the dyadic associations between attachment insecurity and intimate partner violence among couples seeking therapy	7
Treated together–changed together: The application of dyadic analyses to understand the reciprocal nature of alliances and couple satisfaction over time	7
Acceptability of an online relational intimacy and sexual enhancement (iRISE) intervention after breast cancer	7
Family‐based treatments for attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A review of family functioning outcomes in randomized controlled trials from 2010 to 2019	6
Satisfying and stable couple relationships: Attachment similarity across partners can partially buffer the negative effects of attachment insecurity	6
Beyond polyphony: Open Dialogue in a Women’s Shelter in Australia as a possibility for supporting violence‐informed practice	6
Effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) on emotional regulation and loneliness of divorced women in Iran	6
Sexual Passion and Attachment: Sexual Passion Style as a Mediator between Attachment Insecurity and Sexual Satisfaction in Committed Relationships	6
“We’re just two people in a relationship”: A qualitative exploration of emotional bond and fairness experiences between transgender women and their cisgender partners	5
Past is present: Pathways between childhood sexual abuse and relationship satisfaction	5
Interfamily Therapy, a multifamily therapy model settled in infant‐juvenile mental health services of Havana (Cuba): A qualitative study from participants’ perspectives	5
Trait Mindfulness and Relationship Satisfaction: The Role of Forgiveness Among Couples	5
“Y, what do you think about what X just said?” Conversation analysis of stance‐eliciting questions in open dialogue network meetings	5
Psychotherapeutic processes associated with couple therapy discontinuance: An observational analysis using the rapid marital interaction coding system	5
“We're in this together”: Attachment insecurities, dyadic coping strategies, and relationship satisfaction in couples involved in medically assisted reproduction	5
Practicing Emotionally Focused Therapy online: Calling all relationships	5
An Evaluation of Mechanisms of Change in Multisystemic Therapy for Juvenile Justice‐Involved Youths A Decade Following Treatment	4
Christian Mainline Protestant Pastors’ Beliefs About the Practice of Conversion Therapy: Reflections for Family Therapists	4
Systemic interventions for traumatic event exposure: A 2010–2019 decade review	4
The effectiveness of structural family therapy in repairing behavioral problems and improving family functioning in single‐parent families in Iran	4
A latent profile analysis of romantic attachment anxiety and avoidance	4
The value of using emotions in solution focused brief therapy	4
Equine‐assisted psychotherapy with traumatized couples—Improvement of relationship quality and psychological symptoms	4
An Introduction and Illustration of Bayesian Modeling in Couple and Family Therapy Research	4
Improving Measurement in Couple and Family Therapy: An Item Response Theory Primer	4
Evidence base review of couple‐ and family‐based psychosocial interventions to promote infant and early childhood mental health, 2010–2019	4
Experiential family therapy interventions delivered via telemental health: A qualitative implementation study	4
Discerning Motivational Interviewing through a spiritual lens—discovering a Christian MI archetype and native MI language	3
Randomized controlled trial of the Marriage Checkup: Stress outcomes	3
Somatic experience of emotion in emotionally focused couple therapy: Experienced trainer therapists' views and experiences	3
The Experiences of Couple/Marriage and Family Therapists of color: A Survey Analysis	3
Freedom and struggling openly in psychotherapy: A qualitative inquiry with LGBQ young adults from religious families	3
Affair recovery: Exploring similarities and differences of injured and involved partners	3
Trajectories of incarcerated coparenting: Examining differences across race and ethnicity	3
Clients’ perceptions of marriage and family therapists’ way‐of‐being: a phenomenological analysis	3

A primer on sleep for MFTs: Implications and practical considerations	3
“What Next?”: Toward telebehavioral health sustainability in couple and family therapy	3
Family Empowerment (FAME): A feasibility trial of preventive multifamily groups for asylum seeker families in the Netherlands	3
Integrative couple treatment for pathological gamblers with an emphasis on forgiveness processes: A case study with three couples	3
Parental Relationship Quality and Adolescent Depressive Symptoms: Investigating The Role of Parental Warmth and Hostility in United States Military Families	3
Addressing intergenerational trauma in Black families: Trauma‐informed socioculturally attuned family therapy	3
The influence of relationship pattern labeling on intimacy, acceptance, and relationship satisfaction	3
Expanding our international reach: Trends in the development of systemic family therapy training and implementation in Africa	3
Therapy outcomes for neurodiverse couples: Exploring a solution‐focused approach	3
The Couple Relationship Scale: A brief measure to facilitate routine outcome monitoring in couple therapy	3
Resolving Coparenting Dissatisfaction In Couples: A Preliminary Task Analysis Study	3
“Is it us or is it me?”: Family experiences of connectedness following a reflecting team intervention	3
Understanding the emotional landscape in the withdrawer re‐engagement and blamer softening EFCT change events	2
Sexual Health and Integrative Pleasure (SHIP) Model: Using a clinical case example to guide assessment and treatment	2
A pilot study of a family systems oriented telemental health model in rural Brazil	2
Authority in therapeutic interaction: A conversation analytic study	2
A framework for incorporating physical activity in treatment: Competencies, guidelines, and implications for family therapists	2
Measuring the Effectiveness of the Emotionally Focused Therapy Externship Training in Hungary done through Translation	2
Apart, but still together: Separated parents living in limbo during COVID‐19	2
How long do people wait before seeking couples therapy? A research note	2
Relationship dynamics associated with emotional IPV perpetration and victimization: A meta‐analysis	2
Examining quality time as a mediator of dyadic change in a randomized controlled trial of relationship education for low‐income couples	2
A culturally adapted parenting intervention for the Chilean context: Qualitative indicators of participant satisfaction and contextual and cultural relevance	2
Understanding barriers to couples therapy	2
Changes in couple, parenting, and individual functioning following Family Expectations program participation	2
What are they doing? A national survey of help‐seeking and relationship‐repair behavior of individuals who are thinking about divorce	2
Introduction to the special section—Bigger isn't always better: The benefits of small‐sample research designs	2
A randomized controlled trial of a 5‐year marriage checkup booster session for a subsample of responder couples	2
Romantic relationship experiences and emotion regulation strategies of regular mindfulness meditation practitioners: A qualitative study	2
Infidelity treatment from an integrative behavioral couple therapy perspective: Explanatory model and intervention strategies	2
Clients' Attributions of the Presenting Problem and the Therapeutic Alliance in Couple Therapy: Systemic Versus Intrapersonal Perspectives	2
Impact of repeating somatic cues on the depth of experiencing for withdrawers and pursuers in emotionally focused couple therapy	2
The Loss in Connection with Catastrophes (LICCS) Scale: Understanding couple outcomes	2
Couple Adaptation to the Birth of a Child: The Roles of Attachment and Perfectionism	2
Couples relationship standards and satisfaction in Pakistani couples	2
Multifamily therapy in the community mental health network: A pragmatic randomized and controlled study	1
The impact of discernment counseling on individuals who decide to divorce: experiences of post‐divorce communication and coparenting	1
Engagement and response to a psychoeducation program for family members of inpatients undergoing treatment for substance use disorder	1
Recruiting and training multilingual family therapists: A content analysis of COAMFTE‐accredited marriage and family therapy program websites	1
Training therapists in emotionally focused therapy: A longitudinal and cross‐sectional analysis	1
The impact of a parent‐based prevention intervention on Mexican‐descent youths' perceptions of harm associated with drug use: Differential intervention effects for male and female youths	1
Couple therapy with parents: Results from a pragmatic randomized controlled trial testing the Integrative Brief Systemic Intervention (IBSI)	1
Improvements in depressive symptoms following a brief relationship intervention	1
What MFTs should know about nutrition, psychosocial health, and collaborative care with nutrition professionals	1
Burnout in MFT trainees: Impact of demands and resources	1
Examining intervention hours attended for couples randomly assigned to receive relationship education	1
Parents' reflective functioning and their agreement on treatment goals in attachment‐based family therapy for sexual and gender minority young adults and their nonaccepting parents	1
Engaging in coparenting changes in couple therapy: Two contrasting cases	1
Which therapist perceptions best predict client outcomes? A naturalistic examination	1
Left behind parents: A qualitative study on the experience of parental abduction of a child in Portugal	1
Answering the ethical call of the other: A test of the Strong Relationality Model of Relationship Flourishing	1
A Primer for the Use of Multilevel Models in Couple and Family Therapy Research	1
Family relationships and the interpersonal theory of suicide in a clinically suicidal sample of adolescents	1
Effects of adding video feedback to emotionally focused therapy supervision: A concurrent multiple‐baseline across subjects design	1
“Every time the phone rings, my heart stops”: Mothers’ emotional responses to having a young adult child with a substance use disorder	1
The relationship between therapist interventions and couples' emotional injury resolution in emotion focused couples therapy	1
Emotion‐focused skills training for parents with anxious children. A pilot study	1
Accepting influence in military couples: Implications for couples’ communication and family satisfaction	1
Two‐Year Follow‐Up of the Efficacy of the PREP Training on Iranian Newlyweds	1
The future of divorce support: Is “digital” enough in presence of conflict?	1
Therapist effects on dropout in couple therapy	1
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Introduction to the special issue on telehealth	1
Dyadic effects of interpersonal perception on the quality of couple relationships: Idealization and accuracy matter	1
Processes and outcomes of an emotion‐focused family therapy two‐chair intervention for transforming problematic parenting patterns	1
African American marital confiding relationships: A national survey and a test of an educational intervention	1
Attachment insecurities and under‐commitment in distressed couples: The role of positive and negative partner behaviors	1
Science catching up: Experiential family therapy and neuroscience	1