Family Process

Papers
(The median citation count of Family Process 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Training of interventionists and cultural adaptation procedures: A systematic review of culturally adapted evidence‐based parenting programs in Africa38
Attending to the larger system in systemic therapy and family research33
“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 Africa26
Actor–partner interdependence of socially prescribed parenting perfectionism and parental control in Chinese families25
“One man, one life, one marriage”: A qualitative analysis of Hmong women's divorce experiences24
An exploration of potential pressures to engage in parenting accommodation of PTSD symptoms for military couples22
“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 therapy22
The impact of couple and family interventions22
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Stress Perception and Marital Instability Across the Family Life Cycle: An Actor‐Partner Perspective16
Prevalence and predictors of help‐seeking steps in a nationally representative Dutch sample of romantic couples16
Attachment‐based family therapy for sexual and gender minority young adults and their nonaccepting parents16
Dealing with couple infidelity in romantic relationships: A group intervention feasibility study15
One way or another…or both: Different roles of fathers, mothers, and adolescents in the intergenerational transmission of inclusive attitudes15
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 qual15
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An intergenerational study of parental bonding on perceptions of parental and spousal criticism and marital relationship quality in Singapore14
The role of veterans' PTSD symptoms in veteran couples' insomnia14
Do couples who play together stay together? A longitudinal dyadic examination of shared leisure, financial distress, and relationship outcomes14
Desire discrepancy in long‐term relationships: A qualitative study with diverse couples14
Development and psychometric properties of the Chinese Invalidating Family Scale13
Bidirectional longitudinal relationships between parents' marital satisfaction, parenting stress, and self‐compassion in China13
Differential impact of stay‐at‐home orders on mental health in adults who are homeschooling or “childless at home” in time of COVID‐1913
The bidirectional connection between family functioning and psychopathology: A network analysis in a large sample of adolescents with anorexia nervosa and their parents13
Concurrent randomized control trials of the 1‐year efficacy of two couple relationship education programs: ELEVATE and Couples Connecting Mindfully12
We Gon' Be Alright: Examining Culturally Relevant Coping Strategies as Promotive Factors for Black Romantic Relationships11
Longitudinal associations between relational and sexual well‐being in couples transitioning to parenthood11
Impact evaluation of the family expectations program and moderation by sociodemographic disadvantage11
Family Resilience and Perceived Stress: A Three‐Level Meta‐Analysis11
Transgenerational association of mentalization with child mental health: A scoping review11
Resolving relationship dissolution—What predicts emotional adjustment after breakup?11
Preparing for parenthood: Validating a mixed method approach to assessing the coparenting capacity of young expectant fathers and mothers11
Love in the time of COVID‐19: A systematic mapping review of empirical research on romantic relationships one year into the COVID‐19 pandemic11
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 lifespan11
Treatment efficacy of multiple family therapy in helping Chinese children of depressed parents in Hong Kong, China11
Latina mothers' cultural orientation and child self‐esteem: The mediating role of cultural socialization11
Power dynamics in couple relationships: A review and applications for systemic family therapists10
Parental worry about children: Scale development and validation among Chinese parents of preschool children10
A call for health justice: Striving toward health equity at a community health center10
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Comparing individually based and family‐based treatments for internalizing, externalizing, and family symptoms in Latino youth9
Employment and child support outcomes among noncustodial fathers: An evaluation of the Fathers Advancing Community Together program9
Family and individual risk factors for triangulation: Evaluating evidence for emotion coaching buffering effects9
The family alliance as a facilitator of therapeutic change in systemic relational psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder: A case study9
Coparenting support in the context of difficult children: Mother and father differences9
Latina mothers’ mental health: An examination of its relation to parenting and material resources9
Examining the stability of emotional regulation and psychological distress for low‐income individuals: A latent transition analysis9
The use of emotionally focused therapy with polyamorous relationships9
Effects of a brief parenting intervention on Latinx mothers and their children9
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The impact of cultural stress on family functioning among Puerto Rican displaced families and the effect on mental health9
Subjective emotion trajectories in couple therapy and associations with improvement in relationship satisfaction9
Partners Now Parents: Supporting Couples During the Journey to Parenthood9
The Multiracial‐Black Socialization Model: Conceptualizing racial socialization in Multiracial‐Black families8
The McMaster Family Assessment Device (FAD) dimensions involved in the prediction of adolescent depressive symptoms and their mediating role in regard to socioeconomic status8
A longitudinal comparative study of a multicouple group and single‐couple psychosocial intervention while experiencing infertility8
Reciprocal associations between affectual, associational, and normative solidarity with parents during children’s early to established adulthood8
Using questionnaires as conversational tools to bolster the therapeutic alliance in family therapy practice8
For richer, for poorer: Financial behaviors, power (im)balance, and relational aggression among different‐gender newlyweds in the U.S.8
Dyadic effects of enacted stigma, internalized homophobia, and communal coping on depressive symptoms among cisgender sexual minority male couples7
Gendering of care and care inequalities in couple therapy7
Dyadic associations between COVID‐19‐related stress and mental well‐being among parents and children in Hong Kong: An actor–partner interdependence model approach7
Moderating Effect of Family Function Between Dysfunctional Thoughts and Emotional Distress in Dementia Caregivers: Kinship Differences7
Measuring child‐rearing goals for parents with young children: A scoping review7
Validation of the Chinese version of the Walsh Family Resilience Questionnaire7
How effective are ACF‐funded couple relationship education programs? A meta‐analytic study7
Seeking connection can trigger shame loops in couples: An attachment‐based understanding7
The elusive nature of neutrality: The role of values in couple therapy7
Introduction to the Special Section on Contextual Therapy7
Within‐family processes among safety nets, maternal parenting stress, and child behavioral problems among low‐income families: The importance of race and ethnicity7
Redefining Parental Dynamics: Exploring Mental Health, Happiness, and Positive Parenting Practices7
Reciprocal Relationships Among Household Chaos, Parenting Stress, and Children's Behavioral Self‐Regulation From Early to Middle Childhood6
Couple and family therapy (and families) in the digital age6
Couple variables predicting retention in a brief intervention and research6
Sexual beliefs in couple relationships: Exploring the pathways of mindfulness, communication, and sexual functioning on sexual passion and satisfaction6
Sources of attitudes towards parent–child co‐sleeping and their effects: A systematic scoping review6
Benefits and burdens of daily sacrifices and commitment in same‐ and different‐gender couples: Explorations of proximity and direction of effects6
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Some subtleties of whiteness in the workplace: Steps for shifting the paradigm6
Parental socialization of mental health in Chinese American families: What parents say and do, and how youth make meaning6
Early‐life family and school impacts on adolescent conduct problems: A path analysis6
Social Support for Grief, Attachment, and Mental Health Among Bereaved Spouses During COVID‐19 Pandemic6
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The impact of responsible fatherhood programs on parenting, psychological well‐being, and financial outcomes: A randomized controlled trial6
Silencing or silent transmission? An exploratory study on trauma communication in Kurdish refugee families6
How adult children of incarcerated parents experience ambiguous loss6
When not teaming up puts parents at risk: Coparenting and parental burnout in dual‐parent heterosexual families in Switzerland5
Relationship risk factors for intimate partner violence among sexual and gender minorities: A multilevel analysis5
Family functioning within the context of families with adolescent children in urban India5
Family Connections: The Impact of an Education Program for Carers of Individuals With Borderline Personality Disorder in Italian Mental Health Services5
Discrepancies in perceptions of PTSD symptoms among veteran couples: Links to poorer relationship and individual functioning5
Power and dialogue: A review of discursive research5
Culturally humble and anti‐racist couple and family interventions for African Americans5
Family Environment: Protective but Reactive Associations With Cumulative Stress and Arrest Following Multisystemic Therapy5
Replication and extension of the military family stress model: The after deployment adaptive parenting tools ADAPT4U study5
I can still hear my baby crying: The ambiguous loss of American Indian/Alaska Native birthmothers5
Conflict and Father Involvement: The Unique Role of Postpartum Destructiveness for Fathers' Direct Care in Toddlerhood5
A structural equation model of parenting and child's resilience after the earthquake in Türkiye5
Reducing the incidence of domestic violence: An observational study of an equine‐assisted intervention5
“Family Connections”, a program for relatives of people with borderline personality disorder: A randomized controlled trial5
Emancipatory approaches in couples' intervention research5
Dyadic Reports of Interparental Relationship Quality and Intentions to Continue Fostering Among Coupled Foster Caregivers5
Caregiving stress and maternal mental health during the COVID‐19 pandemic5
Searching for who benefits most and least: An analysis of moderators of the TRUE Dads fatherhood intervention5
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Co‐occurring trajectory of housing stability and parenting stress with child behavior problems: A randomized trial of a housing intervention for young mothers experiencing homelessness4
Caregivers and interventionists: Developing a Dual Role Behaviors Scale for parents of children with autism spectrum disorders4
The roles of self‐regulation and partner regulation on romantic relationship quality4
Spillover of Daily Parenting Experiences Into Interparental Relationships in Chinese Families of Children With Autism: Mediated by Daily Affect and Moderated by Trait Mindfulness4
Actor–Partner Model of Parenting and Co‐Parenting Practices and Youth Resilience During the COVID‐19 Pandemic4
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 F4
Hopelessness for family members of individuals with borderline personality disorder4
Preventing child mental health problems in southeastern Europe: Feasibility study (phase 1 of MOST framework)4
Session‐to‐session bidirectional associations of alliance with depressive symptoms and relationship satisfaction4
We are not all the same: The importance of perceived difference in racial ideology and Afrocentricity for African American relationships4
A conversation analysis of therapist repeats in open dialogue network meetings4
The Co‐Parenting Across Family Structures Scale: Replication for Mandarin parents4
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Relational concerns and change in relationship satisfaction in a relationship education program4
Individual’s pretreatment psychological symptoms and progress in couples therapy: A person‐centered analysis4
Bidirectional relationships between parenting stress and child behavior problems in multi‐stressed, single‐mother families: A cross‐lagged panel model4
Emotion regulation of the family therapist4
Is it me or my child? The association between maternal depression and children's behavior problems in mothers and their children with or without autism4
“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 group4
Parents in couple therapy: An intervention targeting marital and coparenting relationships4
Marital satisfaction, parenting styles, and child outcomes in families of autistic children4
Application of Family Stress Theory: Predicting Wellbeing by Demands, Resources and Perceptions Among Caregivers of Older Adults4
The essence of contextual therapy, its place in the field of family therapy, and its role in the future4
Two pathways to Mexico: Forced deportation or voluntary return of parents and US citizen children4
Mobile application for couple relationships: Results of a pilot effectiveness study4
The indirect impact of infant negative emotionality on interparental conflict via perceptions of coparenting challenges: What prenatal resources mitigate this risk?4
Preliminary Effectiveness of Family Therapy for Perinatal Depressive Symptoms: Results From a Pilot Randomized Trial4
The therapeutic alliance in couple therapy: Patterns by treatment and sex in a randomized controlled trial of emotionally focused therapy and treatment as usual4
Better together: Relationship quality and mental health among cardiac patients and spouses4
Introduction to special section: Federally funded, community‐based healthy marriage and responsible fatherhood program impact studies4
Attachment Insecurity and Coparenting Relationships: An Exploration of the Effects of a Couple‐Based Intervention for New Parents4
Parental involvement in Mexican‐origin adolescents' romantic relationships: An examination of parents' cultural orientations and parent‐youth relationships4
A closer look at the demographics of same‐sex marriage in the United States: Implications for research, practice, and policy4
Healthy couple, better sleep: Exploring connections and changes in couple relationship education participants4
Losing a parent during childhood: The impact on adult romantic relationships4
Predictors of attitudes toward potentially having a lesbian, gay, or bisexual child among Chinese heterosexual adults3
Marital satisfaction in covenant versus standard marriages: Is there a difference?3
Bidirectional associations between parenting stress and coparenting: A longitudinal actor‐partner interdependence analysis3
Intergenerational continuity of adverse childhood experiences among Mexican‐origin families: Examination of intra and extra‐familial adversities3
Unsettled adoptive identity: Understanding relationship challenges in adopted adolescents' identity narratives3
Developing Evidence‐Informed Support Groups for Families of Incarcerated People: Findings From a Qualitative Study3
The Milan Approach today3
Family profiles based on family life satisfaction in dual‐earner households with adolescent children in Chile3
What makes people feel loved? An exploratory study on core elements of love across family, romantic, and friend relationships3
Relationship education for women during pregnancy: The impact of MotherWise on birth outcomes3
The transition to Teletherapy: Experiences of emotionally focused therapists3
Neighborhood disadvantage is associated with biological aging: Intervention‐induced enhancement of couple functioning confers resilience3
Mental health profiles of depressive symptoms and personal well‐being among active‐duty military families3
Evidence and couple and family therapy3
Therapeutic Process Through an Analysis of Significant Events in Psychodramatic Family Therapy3
Rejunctive Moves Toward Systemic Healing: A Contextual Family Therapy Approach to Father’s Absence3
Parenthood during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Post‐traumatic growth amongst university students3
Maternal satisfaction with joint and sole child physical placement arrangements following separation in Wisconsin and Finland3
A conditional process analysis of suicidal thoughts and behaviors in outpatient parents: Examining the Narrative Crisis Model by parenthood status3
Understanding the link between intimate partner violence exposure and children's self‐regulation: The mediating role of parenting stress and warmth3
Middle childhood attachment‐based family therapy: Theory and model description3
Introduction to a special section: Racial disparities in health care3
Caregivers of individuals with borderline personality disorder: The relationship between leading caregiver interventions and psychological distress/positive mental well‐being3
Mothers Under Pressure: Different Types of Pressure and Chinese Mothers' Quality of Homework Involvement in Daily Life3
Called to repair injustice: Connecting everyday practices to societal phenomena, creating momentum for solidarity and change3
The importance of relational ethics3
Profiles of perceived resources among low‐income, rural mothers: Prospective associations with maternal and child outcomes2
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The third shift: Addressing emotion work in couple therapy2
Gender identity differences in the experiences of family stressors and violence among transgender and non‐binary individuals in China2
Is separate the new equal? A meta‐analytic review of correlates of intimate partner violence victimization for Black and White women in the United States2
Development and psychometric evaluation of a new domain‐specific coparenting measure: Coparenting Children's Emotion Scale2
How are parental mental health and parenting practices associated with externalizing behaviors among young children with autism in China? A cross‐sectional study and indirect effect analysi2
Haitian and Haitian American experiences of racism and socioethnic discrimination in Miami‐Dade county: At‐risk and court‐involved youth2
“I never told my family I was grieving for my mom”: The not‐disclosing‐grief experiences of parentally bereaved adolescents and young adults in Chinese families2
Changes in Relationship Skills and Parenting Stress Among Vulnerable Couples Participating in Couple Relationship Education Before Versus During the COVID‐19 Pandemic2
Effects of family therapy for substance abuse: A systematic review of recent research2
Dyadic effects of stigma on quality of life in people with schizophrenia and their family caregivers: Mediating role of patients' perception of caregivers' expressed emotion2
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Congruence couple therapy for alcohol use and gambling disorders with comorbidities (part II): Targeted areas and mechanisms of change2
Relationship‐undermining statements by psychotherapists with clients who present with marital or couple problems2
Couple therapy in the 2020s: Current status and emerging developments2
A qualitative study on how intimate partner violence against women changes, escalates, and persists from pre‐ to postseparation2
Online clinical supervision in couple and family therapy: A scoping review2
“Anything Can Happen Here”: Mother–Child Experiences Navigating Life as Residents of an Urban Red‐Light Brothel District in India2
A latent profile analysis of relationship satisfaction and self‐regulation among low‐income participants who attended relationship education with a partner2
Bidirectional or unidirectional? Longitudinal associations between external stressors, perceived spousal support, and marital instability2
Couple relationship education content: What we have and what we are missing2
Intergenerational solidarity with digital communication and psychological well‐being among older parents during the COVID‐19 pandemic2
Researching what we practice—The paradigm of systemic family research: Part 12
The relationship between emotional intimate partner violence and other forms of violence: A metaanalytic review2
Interviewing the Internalized Other and the Distributed Self2
Associations between parents' and grandparents' depressive symptoms, intergenerational coparenting relationships, and (grand)parenting behaviors: An actor–partner interdependence mediation model2
Congruence couple therapy for alcohol use and gambling disorders with comorbidities (part I): Outcomes from a randomized controlled trial2
Non‐violent resistance and family accommodation: A trans‐diagnostic solution to a highly prevalent problem2
Experiences of fathers caring for children with neurodevelopmental disorders: A meta‐synthesis2
Reciprocal associations between commitment, forgiveness, and different aspects of marital well‐being among Chinese newlywed couples2
Factor structure, internal consistency, and construct validity of the Caregiver strain questionnaire in Latinx families2
Perceived discrimination and Latina college students' depressive symptoms: The roles of dyadic coping with sisters and familism values2
Triadic family structures and their day‐to‐day dynamics from an adolescent perspective: A multilevel latent profile analysis2
Parent and child adjustment dual trajectories at the beginning of the COVID‐19 syndemic2
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Assessing the effectiveness and feasibility of the Experienced Carers Helping Others program in relatives of adolescents with eating disorders using an online application format with individual sessio2
Exploring Local Aspects for a Culturally and Contextually Adapted Family Therapy Training in Cambodia2
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Adverse childhood experiences and infidelity: The mediating roles of anxious and avoidant attachment styles2
Friendship as a lifeline: Navigating the precarious landscape of the US employment‐based immigration as women of color psychologists2
Sexual intimacy and aging: An integrative framework to promote intimacy resilience in couple therapy2
Strengthening lower‐income families: Lessons learned from policy responses to the COVID‐19 pandemic2
Holocaust communication, attachment orientation and distress among descendants of female holocaust survivors2
Recruitment and retention of diverse couples in relationship education with integrated economic services2
Culturally adapting an evidence‐based parenting intervention for the Chilean context: Balancing fidelity, context, and cultural relevance2
TRUE Dads: The impact of a couples‐based fatherhood intervention on family relationships, child outcomes, and economic self‐sufficiency2
A randomized trial of relationship education using Within Our Reach for economically vulnerable couples2
Anxiety in the family: A five‐wave random‐intercept cross‐lagged panel analysis of dynamic reciprocal associations between father, mother, and child anxiety2
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Effectiveness of community‐based family‐focused interventions on family functioning among families of children with chronic health conditions: A systematic review and meta‐analysis2
Positive experiences in the parent–child relationship during the COVID‐19 lockdown in Poland: The role of emotion regulation, empathy, parenting self‐efficacy, and social support2
Chinese childbearing decision‐making in mainland China in the post‐one‐child‐policy era2
Family resources, resilience beliefs, and parental adaptation: A moderated mediation analysis2
Trajectories of parent and child well‐being across the pandemic year: Role of financial strain, social distancing, and COVID‐19 prevalence2
“Turning back the clock”: A positive strategy for changing unacceptable youth behavior2
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Linking child adjustment difficulties with mother's maladaptive parental behavior: The mediating roles of parental cognitions and parenting stress2
The role of interpersonal trust in the associations between parental warmth and depressive symptoms among Chinese adolescents: A mediation analysis2
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Parents' anti‐Black messages, empathic reactions toward racism, fear of Black individuals, and perceived ability to engage in anti‐racism advocacy among Asian American emerging adults2
Exploring associations among baseline emotion regulation and change in relationship satisfaction among couples in a randomized controlled trial of emotionally focused therapy compared to usual care1
Vulnerability to loneliness among fathers of children with autism spectrum disorder: The role of interpersonal and familial resources1
Stress and child internalizing symptoms: Examining the moderating role of Latino fathers' warmth and support1
Depressed mood and environmental mastery as potential pathways linking family relationship quality and disease self‐management for African Americans with hypertension1
Building long‐term family resilience through universal prevention: 10‐year parent and child outcomes during the COVID‐19 pandemic1
Developing guidelines on EFT for same‐sex/gender relationships: Recommendations from a Delphi study1
Toward a culturally sensitive application of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy: A qualitative study of therapists' experience using EFT in Spanish‐speaking countries/cultures1
The longitudinal links between marital conflict and Chinese children’s internalizing problems in mainland China: Mediating role of maternal parenting styles1
Talking through the tough: Identifying facilitating factors to preparation for bias and racial–ethnic discrimination conversations among families from minoritized ethnic–racial groups1
A case–control study to differentiate parents' personality traits on anorexia nervosa and affective disorders1
Recruitment strategies in couple intervention studies: A systematic review of recruitment methods and sample characteristics in the United States from 2015 to 20201
Associations between dyadic relationship quality and stepfamily functioning: A common fate modeling approach1
Lost in translation: Therapeutic Alliance as a mediator in the relationship between teletherapy and marital satisfaction1
Attachment and family functioning across three generations1
Intervention effects on self‐control decrease speed of biological aging mediated by changes in substance use: A longitudinal study of African American youth1
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A special section: Recruiting and retaining couples from underrepresented backgrounds in intervention research1
Husband as Head?: Diverse Perspectives on Gendered Marital Hierarchy From Highly Religious Wives and Husbands1
Parenting Self‐Efficacy Within the First Year Postpartum in Non‐Birthing Parents: A Scoping Review1
Inclusion and anti‐racism work as performance or deep work? It literally is either‐or: A qualitative study in the CFT field1
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