Journal of Marital and Family Therapy

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Predicting change in relationship distress and depressive symptoms among couples in Taiwan: The role of attachment, emotional expressivity, and gender roles in Emotionally Focused Therapy	30
The explanatory role of psychological distress in the link between role blurring and relationship satisfaction: A dyadic study	25
Dyadic interaction of parentification in Chinese families of maternal depression: A qualitative study	23
Training therapists in emotionally focused therapy: A longitudinal and cross‐sectional analysis	22
Reducing mental health disparities among racially and ethnically diverse populations: A review of couple and family intervention research methods (2010–2019)	19
Gender, attachment, and demand/withdraw patterns in the context of moderate couple conflict in cisgender, heterosexual relationships	19
Applying the Rupture Resolution Rating System to emotion‐focused couple therapy	18
Interfamily Therapy, a multifamily therapy model settled in infant‐juvenile mental health services of Havana (Cuba): A qualitative study from participants’ perspectives	17
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JacobB. Priest. (2021). The Science of Family Systems TheoryNew York: Routledge, 190 pp., $48.95	16
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JMFT Annual Report 2020	13
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LebowJ. L. (2019). Treating the difficult divorce: A practical guide for psychotherapists. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 325 pp., $59.99	12
A comparison of classroom‐based and online multicultural training course within a marriage and family therapy training program	12
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Sanctioned licensing board violations for marriage and family therapists spanning a 10‐year period	12
Emotionally focused therapy with African American couples: Love heals,Paul T.Guillory,New York; London:Routledge.2021. US$42.95 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐0‐367‐37573‐7	11
Developmental couple therapy for complex trauma: Results of an implementation pilot study	10
Development and psychometric properties of the Couple Interaction Pattern Scale	10
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Black and Latiné parents' perspectives on supporting their children's emotional and physical health	10
“No, It's You:” Dyadic perceived need for change predicts relationship education outcomes	10

Words matter: The role of family weight talk in anxiety and depression	9
Satisfaction or connectivity?: Implications from the strong relationality model of flourishing couple relationships	9
Wampler, K.S. & McWey, L.M. (2020). The Handbook of Systemic Family Therapy, Systemic Family Therapy with Children and Adolescents (Vol. 2). John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey.	9
Justifying by degrees: A grounded theory of men's decision‐making process in infidelity	8
Assessing family relations in borderline personality disorder: A relational approach	8
Maternal engagement, relational closeness, and adolescent internalizing symptoms: The association of engaged mothering with adolescent depression and anxiety	8
A latent profile analysis of romantic attachment anxiety and avoidance	8
The role of relationship dissatisfaction in the dyadic associations between attachment insecurity and intimate partner violence among couples seeking therapy	8
Sexual Health and Integrative Pleasure (SHIP) Model: Using a clinical case example to guide assessment and treatment	7
Family‐based treatments for disruptive behavior problems in children and adolescents: An updated review of rigorous studies (2014–April 2020)	7
NicholsMargaret (2021). The modern clinician's guide to working with LGBTQ+ clients: The inclusive therapist. New York, NY: Routledge, pp. 352, $44.95.	6
Cornwell, C., & Woods, S. (Eds.). (2019). Case studies in couple and family therapy: Through the lens of early career professionals. New York, NY: Routledge. 139 pp., $39.95	6
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Understanding the emotional landscape in the withdrawer re‐engagement and blamer softening EFCT change events	5
Multigenerational transmission of differentiation of self – Toward a more in‐depth understanding of Bowen's theory concept	5
Left behind parents: A qualitative study on the experience of parental abduction of a child in Portugal	5
Individual mental health and couple functioning following couple relationship education participation: Exploring prospective cross‐lagged influences among changes	5
Dyadic process and dynamics of caregiving and receiving in suicide recovery among Filipino college‐aged students and their families	5
Engagement and response to a psychoeducation program for family members of inpatients undergoing treatment for substance use disorder	5
Acceptability of an online relational intimacy and sexual enhancement (iRISE) intervention after breast cancer	5
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Is it really that important to you? How the topics of conflict and emotional reactions to conflicts explain the associations between attachment insecurities and relationship satisfaction	4
Relationship satisfaction in Black heterosexual couples: The role of self‐compassion and openness	4
Schmidt H. A. E., & Sibley D. S. (2019). Contextual Therapy for Family Health: Clinical Applications. Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 198 pp. $42.95	4
Canfield, B. (Ed.). (2020). Intercultural perspectives on family counseling. Routledge, 229 pp. $49.95	4
Construction and validation of Rejection Sensitive Expectation, Perception, and Reaction Questionnaire—Partner (RSEPR‐P)	4
Examining engagement in a self‐in‐relationship observation exercise by couples coping with breast cancer: A qualitative analysis of text‐based feedback	4
Recruiting and training multilingual family therapists: A content analysis of COAMFTE‐accredited marriage and family therapy program websites	4
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What to expect physiologically when you're expecting couples in therapy: A Changing Hearts and Minds in relationshiPS (CHAMPS) descriptive study	4
JMFT annual report 2022	4
The trajectory of anxiety in therapy: The role of ACEs	3
Dulberger, D., & Omer, H. (2021). Non‐emerging adulthood: Helping parents of adult children with entrenched dependence. New York: Cambridge University Press, 150 pp., $29.99	3
Coparenting change after couple therapy using self‐reports and observational data	3
Married women's response to spousal pornography use: A grounded theory	3
The future of divorce support: Is “digital” enough in presence of conflict?	3
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Emotionally focused therapists' experiences serving interabled couples in couple therapy: An interpretative phenomenological analysis	3
“It's an ongoing discussion about desire”: Adults' strategies for managing sexual and affectionate desire discrepancies in romantic relationships	3
The Couple Relationship Scale: A brief measure to facilitate routine outcome monitoring in couple therapy	3
“I'm fighting with BPD instead of my partner”: A dyadic interpretative phenomenological analysis of the lived experience of couples navigating borderline personality disorder	3
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Therapists' confidence in their theory of change and outcomes	3
Is the association of sexual quality with relationship satisfaction really stronger when the sexual relationship is functioning poorly?	3
Couple teletherapy in the era of COVID‐19: Experiences and recommendations	3
Validation of a new assessment of hostile attribution bias in romantic relationships: The Hostile Attributions in Romantic Relationships Test	2
Kauppi, M. (2021). Polyamory: A clinical toolkit for therapists (and their clients). Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN: 978‐1538129890	2
Integrative couple treatment for pathological gamblers with an emphasis on forgiveness processes: A case study with three couples	2
The effects of gender identity change efforts on Black, Latinx, and White transgender and gender nonbinary adults: Implications for ethical clinical practice	2

Ingredients of successful therapeutic relationships with foster youth according to key stakeholders in child welfare: A grounded theory analysis	2
The association between caregiver psychiatric distress and perceived barriers to behavioral health treatment participation for youth in the juvenile legal system	2
Couples relationship standards and satisfaction in Pakistani couples	2
Affair recovery: Exploring similarities and differences of injured and involved partners	2
Introduction to the special section—Bigger isn't always better: The benefits of small‐sample research designs	2
Answering the ethical call of the other: A test of the Strong Relationality Model of Relationship Flourishing	2
Couple and family interventions for depressive and bipolar disorders: Evidence base update (2010–2019)	2
Helping couples achieve relationship success: A decade of progress in couple relationship education research and practice, 2010–2019	2
Thematic analysis of therapists' experiences integrating EMDR and EFT in couple therapy: Theoretical and clinical complementarity, and benefits to client couples	2
Relationship dynamics associated with emotional IPV perpetration and victimization: A meta‐analysis	2
Problem resolution scale: A single‐item instrument for easily assessing clinical improvement	2
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A randomized controlled trial of a 5‐year marriage checkup booster session for a subsample of responder couples	2
Which therapist perceptions best predict client outcomes? A naturalistic examination	1
A review of the research during 2010–2019 on evidence‐based treatments for couple relationship distress	1
Multifamily therapy in the community mental health network: A pragmatic randomized and controlled study	1
Attachment as an intermediary variable between childhood maltreatment and perceived partner responsiveness in adolescents and young adults	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
The interplay of negative urgency and cognitive reappraisal in couples' communication conflict	1
Helping Postdivorce Families Enhance Parent–Child Relationships: Clinical Applications to Effectively Help Divorced Parents Appropriately Communicate Their New Romance With Children	1
Conceptual framework for telehealth strategies to increase family involvement in treatment and recovery for youth opioid use disorder	1
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Assessments for multi‐heritage couple therapy: A review of existing tools	1
Introduction to the special issue on the efficacy and effectiveness of couple and family interventions: Evidence base update 2010–2019	1
Practicing Emotionally Focused Therapy online: Calling all relationships	1
Hendrix, H., & LaKelly Hunt, H. (2021). Doing imago relationship therapy in the space‐between. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 488 pp., $47.50	1
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Resilient relationships: Techniques for surviving hyper‐individualism, social isolation, and a mental health crisis By C.Heim, C.Heim, New York, London: Routledge. 2023. 280 pages. US$42.95 (paperback	1
A new way to measure partner burden in depression: Construction, validation, and sensitivity to change of the partner burden in depression questionnaire	1
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Meta‐Analysis of Solution‐Focused Brief Therapy Research Conducted in Iran: Does Outcome Type, Intervention Modality, or Delivery Format Make a Difference?	1
Gambescia, N., Weeks, G. R., & Hertlein, K. M. (2020). A clinician's guide to systemic sex therapy. 3rd Edition. Routledge. ISBN: 978‐0367228064	1
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Fostering connection: A dyadic analysis of the relationships between mattering, attachment, and mental health	1
The importance of highlighting culturally relevant factors in the DEEP analysis when using IBCT with African American couples	1
Apart, but still together: Separated parents living in limbo during COVID‐19	1
Accepting influence in military couples: Implications for couples’ communication and family satisfaction	1
Perceptions of the effect of parental deportation on adult intimate relationships	1
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Affection preference, enactment, and relationship satisfaction: A dyadic analysis of love languages	1
Engaging in coparenting changes in couple therapy: Two contrasting cases	1
Consensus, Need Fulfillment, Commitment, and Satisfaction in Couple Relationships: Structural Equation Modeling	1
Reunification, reconsidered: Presenting an integrative, single‐therapist framework for resolving parent–child contact problems	1
How does my partner see me? Metaperceptions of personality and couple satisfaction	1
Flourishing Love: A secular guide to lasting intimate relationships By Gnaulati, Enrico, Biecester; United Kingdom: Karnac Books. 2024. pp. 225. $19.95. ISBN: 13: 978‐1‐80013‐208‐5	1
Understanding African American help‐seeking for romantic relationships: Advocacy, barriers, and considerations	1
Family Empowerment (FAME): A feasibility trial of preventive multifamily groups for asylum seeker families in the Netherlands	0
Association between help‐seeking and motivation for completing a couple relationship education program across service modality	0
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The development of a dyadic family life review intervention for the Asian diaspora: A practice article	0
A culturally adapted parenting intervention for the Chilean context: Qualitative indicators of participant satisfaction and contextual and cultural relevance	0
The role of emotional dysregulation in the association between family‐of‐origin conflict and romantic relationship maintenance	0
The mediating role of marital quality in parenting intervention: Effects on preschoolers' conduct problems and effortful control	0
An attachment perspective on couple interaction: Helping couples signal needs clearly and respond appropriately	0
The influence of relationship pattern labeling on intimacy, acceptance, and relationship satisfaction	0
Mindfulness, awareness, partner caring, and romantic relationship quality: Structural equation modeling	0
Comparison of the effectiveness of enhanced cognitive‐behavioral couple therapy on emotional self‐regulation and couple burnout of self‐assigned and court‐referred incompatible couples	0
Emotion‐focused skills training for parents with anxious children. A pilot study	0
Competency‐based training in the supervision of relational telemental supervision	0
“Bringing and Removing Self from the Table”: Therapists’ use and management of eating disorder lived experience in the treatment of clients with eating disorders	0
Parental efficacy after a military parenting program: A dyadic latent growth model	0
“How did you stay together so long?” Relationship longevity, a cross‐generational qualitative study	0
Effectiveness of a marital relationship skills training intervention on marital adjustment among individuals in Hosanna Town, Southwest Ethiopia: A randomized‐controlled trial	0
Understanding barriers to couples therapy	0
Systemic teletherapists' meaningful experiences during the first months of the coronavirus pandemic	0
“You helped me out of that darkness” Children as dialogical partners in the collaborative post‐family therapy research interview	0
Porges, S. W. (2021). Polyvagal safety: Attachment, communication, and self‐regulation. WW Norton, Incorporated, 320 pp., $45.00	0
Moral distress of medical family therapists and their physician colleagues during the transition to COVID‐19	0
A pilot study of a family systems oriented telemental health model in rural Brazil	0
State of research in MFT: Thoughts from the Editor's Chair	0
A call to action: Online learning and distance education in the training of couple and family therapists	0
Treated together–changed together: The application of dyadic analyses to understand the reciprocal nature of alliances and couple satisfaction over time	0
A Grounded Theory Analysis of Control and Freedom in Intimate Relationships	0
Using systemic interventions to reduce intimate partner violence or child maltreatment: A systematic review of publications between 2010 and 2019	0
“What Next?”: Toward telebehavioral health sustainability in couple and family therapy	0
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Solution‐Focused Brief Therapy for Improving Couple Dyadic Relationships in Iran: A Systematic Review	0
A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Getting Our Hearts Right Program and the Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program in a Sample of Iranian Couples	0
Effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) on emotional regulation and loneliness of divorced women in Iran	0
An examination of gender difference in advancement and salary for Marriage and Family Therapy faculty members working in public universities	0

Christensen, A., Doss, B. D., & Jacobson, N. S. (2020). Integrative behavioral couple therapy: A therapist’s guide to creating acceptance and change. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 396	0
The change process questionnaire (CPQ): A psychometric validation	0
El Ser del Terapeuta: A narrative examination into family‐of‐origin influence on the professional self of students in family therapy training in Colombia	0
The sexual wholeness model: An initial evaluation with two samples	0
Processes and outcomes of an emotion‐focused family therapy two‐chair intervention for transforming problematic parenting patterns	0
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Relational sanctification, communal coping, and depression among African American couples	0
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An update of the Couple Adaptation to Traumatic Stress Model: Systematic research synthesis of the association between secondary trauma survivor functioning and couple functioning	0
Family based treatment of anxiety disorders: A review of the literature (2010–2019)	0
The bottom‐up approach in multigenerational family therapy: The child as the family guide	0
Infidelity treatment from an integrative behavioral couple therapy perspective: Explanatory model and intervention strategies	0
Telehealth delivery of GenerationPMTO in the public mental health system: A pragmatic, noninferiority study	0
“We're in this together”: Attachment insecurities, dyadic coping strategies, and relationship satisfaction in couples involved in medically assisted reproduction	0
Transracial adoption, identity, and racism in the United States: Between two worldsBy Kyrai E.Antares, Lexington Books. 2023. pp. 174. $45.00 (eBook) $95.00 (Hardcover)	0
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The systemic‐family‐individual approach: The heritage and continuation of Mara Selvini Palazzoli's work in integrative psychotherapy	0
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Pilot test of JUNTOS EN PAREJA: Enhancing relationship and financial well‐being in Latine couples	0
WilloughbyB.J. (2020). The Millennial marriage. New York, NY: Routledge, 230 pp., $23.96.	0
Relationship standards and Malay Muslim couples' marital satisfaction	0
Dyadic parent–adolescent relationship quality as pathways from maternal childhood abuse to adolescent psychopathology	0
A case study of virtually delivered emotion‐focused family therapy	0
Child and family characteristics in multisystemic therapy for child abuse and neglect (MST‐CAN): Are there associations with treatment outcome?	0
Evidence base review of couple‐ and family‐based psychosocial interventions to promote infant and early childhood mental health, 2010–2019	0
Burnout in MFT trainees: Impact of demands and resources	0
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Integration of teaming therapy and mixed‐reality simulation as remote learning modality for couple and family therapy graduate training programs	0
Dyadic effects of interpersonal perception on the quality of couple relationships: Idealization and accuracy matter	0
Rastogi, M., & Singh, R. (Eds) (2020). Handbook of systemic family therapy (Vol. 4). Hoboken NJ: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9781119438557, pp. 1‐646.	0
Doherty, W. J. (2022). The ethical lives of clients: Transcending self‐interest in psychotherapy. American Psychological Association, 163 pp., $39.99	0
Comparing the OurRelationship Program and Bibliotherapy for Parents Experiencing Couple Distress: A Randomized Pilot	0
Systematic review and data synthesis on the treatment of sexual violence victimization by an intimate partner	0
Skills and knowledge therapists need to work with foster youth and families: According to key stakeholders in child welfare	0
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	0
The scale of myths of romantic love: Evidence of validity and reliability of a brief scale in Peru	0
The value of using emotions in solution focused brief therapy	0
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Miller, S. D., Hubble, M. A., & Chow, D. (2021). Better results: Using deliberate practice to improve therapeutic effectiveness. 248 pp., $49.99	0
Assessment of forgiveness in couple relationships: Adaptation of the Marital Offense‐Specific Forgiveness Scale (MOFS) to a Spanish sample	0
Relationships for Social Change: The Value of the Promotora Framework in Navigating Systems of Employment	0
Addressing intergenerational trauma in Black families: Trauma‐informed socioculturally attuned family therapy	0
Changes in couple, parenting, and individual functioning following Family Expectations program participation	0
AsenE., & MorrisE. (2020). High‐conflict parenting post‐separation: The making and breaking of family ties. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 166 pp. $128.00	0
Indirect Effects of Self‐Differentiation and Mentalization on Family of Origin Health and Marital Satisfaction Among Korean Adults	0
Relationship mindfulness, negative relationship quality, and physical health	0
Systemic interventions for traumatic event exposure: A 2010–2019 decade review	0
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Examining quality time as a mediator of dyadic change in a randomized controlled trial of relationship education for low‐income couples	0
The effectiveness of the in‐person and online Gottman Seven Principles Couple Enhancement Program: A propensity score matching design	0
Discerning Motivational Interviewing through a spiritual lens—discovering a Christian MI archetype and native MI language	0
Introduction to the special issue on telehealth	0
Van Tongeren, D. R., & Showwalter Van Tongeren, S. A., (2020). The courage to suffer: A new clinical framework for life’s greatest crises. Templeton press, 171 pp., $19.95.	0
Past is present: Pathways between childhood sexual abuse and relationship satisfaction	0
Talking and making meaning about parental mental health problems: The role of children's family caregivers	0
Attachment‐Based Family Therapy for LGBTQ Youth in a Community Setting: A Community‐Engaged, Qualitative Pilot Study of Youth and Parent Experiences	0
“It’s splendid once you grow into it:” Client experiences of relational teletherapy in the era of COVID‐19	0
Couple therapy with parents: Results from a pragmatic randomized controlled trial testing the Integrative Brief Systemic Intervention (IBSI)	0
No Bad Parts: Healing trauma and restoring wholeness with the internal family systems model By R. C.Schwartz, Boulder, CO: Sounds True. 2021. pp. 199.	0
Gottman's sound relationship house and relational resilience through infertility for couples	0
Correction to “Relationship mindfulness, negative relationship quality, and physical health”	0
Wampler, K. S. & Blow, A. J. (Eds.), (2020). The Handbook of Systemic Family Therapy: Volume 3. Systemic Family Therapy with CouplesJohn Wiley & Sons.	0
Somatic experience of emotion in emotionally focused couple therapy: Experienced trainer therapists' views and experiences	0
Emotion regulation in emotionally focused therapists working with high‐conflict couples	0
How therapists respond to “uneven” alliances in couple and family therapy: A conversation‐analytic study	0
Emotional worlds colliding: A qualitative exploration of the emotional experiences of transgender and cisgender women in romantic relationships during transition	0
Impact of repeating somatic cues on the depth of experiencing for withdrawers and pursuers in emotionally focused couple therapy	0
Tilsen, J. (2021). Queering your therapy practice: Queer theory, narrative therapy, and imagining new identitiesNew York, NY: Routledge	0
A primer on sleep for MFTs: Implications and practical considerations	0
Wampler, K. S., Miller, R. B. & Seedall, R. B. (Eds.). (2020). The handbook of systemic family therapy: Volume 1. The profession of systemic family therapyJohn Wiley & Sons.	0
The politics of vulnerable masculinity in couple therapy	0
Dyadic examination of parents' general psychological distress and coparenting in families with young children: The mediating role of couple satisfaction	0
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Videoconferencing psychotherapy for couples and families: A systematic review	0
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Science catching up: Experiential family therapy and neuroscience	0
Black therapists' experiences with their Black clients: A systematic review	0
Review of family‐based treatments from 2010 to 2019 for suicidal ideation and behavior	0
Experiential family therapy interventions delivered via telemental health: A qualitative implementation study	0
Trajectories of incarcerated coparenting: Examining differences across race and ethnicity	0
The unspoken experiences of systemic supervisors of color: A modified Delphi study	0
Family relationships and the interpersonal theory of suicide in a clinically suicidal sample of adolescents	0
The relationship between therapist interventions and couples' emotional injury resolution in emotion focused couples therapy	0
One year of COVID‐19: A longitudinal study of individual and relational factors of psychological adjustment of individuals living in a romantic relationship in Portugal during the COVID‐19 pandemic	0
Naming and Navigating Matters: Family Therapists' Perspectives Facilitating Ethnic–Racial Socialization Practices With Latino Parents	0
The Associations Between Adverse Childhood Experiences, Shared Religious/Spiritual Practices, and Relationship Satisfaction in Couple Therapy: Sessions 1 Through 6	0
“Extremely toxic and evil” reflections on gender identity change efforts by Christian religious leaders: Implications for therapy with transgender and nonbinary clients	0
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Dyadic Associations of Suicidal Risk Predicting Relationship Satisfaction in a Clinical Sample	0
Brief emotion‐focused family therapy: A 12‐month follow‐up study	0
JMFT annual report 2021	0
Psychopharmacology attitudes, beliefs, and practices among systemic family therapists and supervisors	0
A test of the dyadic associations between ineffective arguing, emotional distress, and violence perpetration and victimization among couples seeking therapy	0