Journal of Marital and Family Therapy

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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
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Gender, attachment, and demand/withdraw patterns in the context of moderate couple conflict in cisgender, heterosexual relationships10
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“I'm Going to Do Everything I Can to Keep You From Having to Interact With the Police”: Queer Therapists' Perceptions of Police9
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Relationship satisfaction in Black heterosexual couples: The role of self‐compassion and openness7
Empathic Conjectures in Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT): A Process Microanalytic Study7
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Client Perspectives of Family Therapy: A Qualitative Systematic Review7
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 satisfaction7
The trajectory of anxiety in therapy: The role of ACEs7
Exploring Gender Minority Stress and the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide: A Path Analysis of Suicidality Among Transgender and Gender‐Diverse People7
Fostering connection: A dyadic analysis of the relationships between mattering, attachment, and mental health6
Which therapist perceptions best predict client outcomes? A naturalistic examination6
Explaining the Mental Health Consequences of Internalized Racial Oppression: The Mediating Roles of Family Resilience and Collective Action6
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Brief emotion‐focused family therapy: A 12‐month follow‐up study5
Work–Family Conflict and Enrichment, Family Routines and Rituals Meaning, and Parental Burnout in UK and Vietnamese Families5
Marriage and Family Therapists in Pediatric Integrated Specialty Care Settings: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis5
The Satir Model as a Systemic Transformational Approach: A Synthesis of Empirical and Conceptual Studies5
A Grounded Theory Analysis of Control and Freedom in Intimate Relationships5
Helping Couples Plan for Retirement: A Feasibility Test of Couple CARE in Retirement5
“I Felt Like a Burden”: An Exploration Into the Experience of Romantic Relationships for People With ADHD5
Communication and Couple Satisfaction of Women in Cross‐National Marriages and Korean Husbands: Mediating Effect of Intimacy5
Estimating Dyad Level Processes in MFT Research: General Overview of the Common Fate Model and Extensions Into Mediation, Moderation, Growth, and Hybrid Models5
Understanding the Experiences of Parents Who Have a Strained Relationship With Their Child in the Context of Divorce or Separation5
It got me thinking: The impact of participating in a divorce decision‐making interview5
Client‐Centered Perspectives on Couple Therapy for Infidelity From an International Mixed‐Methods Survey5
A culturally adapted parenting intervention for the Chilean context: Qualitative indicators of participant satisfaction and contextual and cultural relevance4
How Many Love Languages Are There? Examining Chapman's Five Love Languages Using a Bottom‐Up Approach4
Improvements in depressive symptoms following a brief relationship intervention4
The Efficacy of the Hold Me Tight Relationship Education Program Delivered by Paraprofessionals in South Africa4
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 pandemic4
Communication Is Key: The Mediating Effect of Demand–Withdraw Patterns on Partner Phubbing and Couple Satisfaction4
Wampler, K. S. & Blow, A. J. (Eds.), (2020). The Handbook of Systemic Family Therapy: Volume 3. Systemic Family Therapy with CouplesJohn Wiley & Sons.4
No Bad Parts: Healing trauma and restoring wholeness with the internal family systems model By R. C.Schwartz, Boulder, CO: Sounds True. 2021. pp. 199.4
Is Our Attachment Hurting Us? Unraveling the Associations Between Partners' Attachment Pairings, Negative Emotions During Conflict, and Intimate Partner Violence4
“As Therapists, We Get to Be Quietly Subversive”: A Qualitative Exploration of CFTs' Social Justice Practices4
The Premise of Intersectionality for Family Therapy Interventions With Asylum Seekers in the United States4
A case study of virtually delivered emotion‐focused family therapy4
Building Trust and Connection: A Family Systems Perspective on Black Veteran Reintegration4
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 youths4
Black therapists' experiences with their Black clients: A systematic review4
Divided we fall: Constructive dialoguing about our political differences within family therapy training4
Exploring the effectiveness of emotionally focused therapy for depressive symptoms and relationship distress among couples in Taiwan: A single‐arm pragmatic trial4
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Association between help‐seeking and motivation for completing a couple relationship education program across service modality4
Resource Loss and Empathy in Couples During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: The Role of Attachment Behaviors4
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Exploring Infidelity Behavior Patterns in a Sample of Peruvian Young Adults: A Latent Class Analysis4
The Impact of Family Functioning and Posttraumatic Growth on Dyadic Coping Among Remarried Couples Facing Infertility in China: The Mediating Role of Marital Quality in an Actor–Partner Interdependenc3
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Dulberger, D., & Omer, H. (2021). Non‐emerging adulthood: Helping parents of adult children with entrenched dependence. New York: Cambridge University Press, 150 pp., $29.993
Could Partner Responsiveness be Involved in the Unforgiveness Process Following a Relational Transgression?3
Emotionally focused therapy with African American couples: Love heals,Paul T.Guillory,New York; London:Routledge.2021. US$42.95 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐0‐367‐37573‐73
Indirect Effects of Self‐Differentiation and Mentalization on Family of Origin Health and Marital Satisfaction Among Korean Adults3
The Development of the Disclosed Reasons of Partners' PrEmature Discontinuation in Couple Therapy Questionnaire (DROPPED‐CT)3
A Scoping Review of Solution‐Focused Measures3
I Feel You … or Do I? An Investigation of Therapist Presence and Partner Effects Via Physiological Synchrony in Couple Therapy3
Cost‐Effectiveness of Functional Family Therapy for Youth Probationers in Singapore: Findings From a Randomized Controlled Trial3
Relevance of Positive Dyadic Coping for Couples Undergoing Assisted Reproduction Treatments: A Systematic Review3
JacobB. Priest. (2021). The Science of Family Systems TheoryNew York: Routledge, 190 pp., $48.953
The role of emotional dysregulation in the association between family‐of‐origin conflict and romantic relationship maintenance3
Effect of ChatGPT Feedback on the Outcomes of a Web‐Based Self‐Care Support Tool Based on Solution‐Focused Brief Therapy3
Artificial Intelligence in Couple and Family Therapy: Introduction of the AI Competencies3
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The interplay of negative urgency and cognitive reappraisal in couples' communication conflict3
Sexual Health and Integrative Pleasure (SHIP) Model: Using a clinical case example to guide assessment and treatment3
Talking and making meaning about parental mental health problems: The role of children's family caregivers3
Outcomes for Emerging Therapists: Synthesizing Two Decades of Trainee‐Centered Research in C/MFT Master's Programs3
“We're in this together”: Attachment insecurities, dyadic coping strategies, and relationship satisfaction in couples involved in medically assisted reproduction2
Being Me While Loving You: The Role of Autonomy in the Association Between Insecure Attachment and Relationship Satisfaction2
Polyamorous Individuals' Jealous and Compersive Responses to Their Partner's New Relationship Energy: The Role of Mindfulness, Emotion Regulation, Distress Tolerance, and Empathy2
Perceptions of the effect of parental deportation on adult intimate relationships2
Families and Therapists Facing Familistic Prejudices in Italy. Developing Context‐Sensitive Therapeutic Practices2
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 (paperback2
Comparison of the effectiveness of enhanced cognitive‐behavioral couple therapy on emotional self‐regulation and couple burnout of self‐assigned and court‐referred incompatible couples2
Consensus, Need Fulfillment, Commitment, and Satisfaction in Couple Relationships: Structural Equation Modeling2
Client Perspectives of Premature Discontinuation in Couple Therapy2
Coparenting change after couple therapy using self‐reports and observational data2
Missing the Forest for the Details of Routine Outcome Monitoring: A Qualitative Inquiry of Clinicians' Experience With the MFT‐PRN2
What to expect physiologically when you're expecting couples in therapy: A Changing Hearts and Minds in relationshiPS (CHAMPS) descriptive study2
State of research in MFT: Thoughts from the Editor's Chair2
The Association Between Mindfulness, Shared Relationship Activity Engagement, Connectedness, and Positive Interaction in Couple Relationships2
Telehealth delivery of GenerationPMTO in the public mental health system: A pragmatic, noninferiority study2
A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Getting Our Hearts Right Program and the Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program in a Sample of Iranian Couples2
The development of a dyadic family life review intervention for the Asian diaspora: A practice article2
Superwoman Schema and Relationship Satisfaction Among Black Women in the United States: The Mediating Role of Relationship Attachment2
Changes in couple, parenting, and individual functioning following Family Expectations program participation2
The Experience of Family Therapists Working With Traumatized Families Using the FOCUS (Families OverComing Under Stress) Treatment Program2
Couple Enrichment Clinic as a Model of Promotive and Preventive Mental Health Care in South India2
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Staying Together After Infidelity: An Exploration of the Decision‐Making Process of Recovery From the Perspective of the Injured Partner2
How Do Couple Relationship Interventions Improve Individual Well‐Being? The Role of Relationship Confidence2
Reputation and Responsibility: A Qualitative Investigation of Parents' Experiences of Open Dialogue School Meetings2
Mental Health, Substance Use, Trauma Exposure, and Experiences of Discrimination Among Caregivers of Youth With Juvenile Legal System Involvement2
When Parental Burnout Hits: Dyadic Effects on Depressive Symptoms in Chinese Families, Buffering Role of Supportive Coparenting and Differences Across Family Fertility Situations2
Parental efficacy after a military parenting program: A dyadic latent growth model2
Gambescia, N., Weeks, G. R., & Hertlein, K. M. (2020). A clinician's guide to systemic sex therapy. 3rd Edition. Routledge. ISBN: 978‐03672280642
Heart and mind of hypnotherapy: Inviting connection, inventing changeFlemons, D. (2022). W.W. Norton. ISBN‐10:039371439X, 266 pp., $35.2
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Effectiveness of a marital relationship skills training intervention on marital adjustment among individuals in Hosanna Town, Southwest Ethiopia: A randomized‐controlled trial2
Acceptability of Emotionally Focused Therapy in Uganda: The Views of Mental Health Workers2
A randomized controlled trial of a 5‐year marriage checkup booster session for a subsample of responder couples2
Correction to “Relationship mindfulness, negative relationship quality, and physical health”2
A comparison of classroom‐based and online multicultural training course within a marriage and family therapy training program1
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A Machine Learning Approach for Investigating Variable Importance in Relationship and Sexual Satisfaction: The Role of Interpersonal Mindfulness and Psychological Safety1
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“Extremely toxic and evil” reflections on gender identity change efforts by Christian religious leaders: Implications for therapy with transgender and nonbinary clients1
Physical Aspects of Sexuality, Attachment, and Sexual Satisfaction1
Dyadic Associations of Suicidal Risk Predicting Relationship Satisfaction in a Clinical Sample1
Attachment insecurities and under‐commitment in distressed couples: The role of positive and negative partner behaviors1
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Relational sanctification, communal coping, and depression among African American couples1
How Does Being Phubbed Affect Commitment? Exploring the Roles of Emotional Loneliness and Relationship Satisfaction1
Ways Marriage and Family Therapists Can Create Supportive Therapeutic Spaces for Asian American Clients1
Systemic Family Therapy and Community‐Based Participatory Research: Addressing Health Disparities in a Brazilian Community1
Validation of a new assessment of hostile attribution bias in romantic relationships: The Hostile Attributions in Romantic Relationships Test1
Forty Years of Couple Therapy Process Research and We Are Still Just Getting Started: A Review of Quantitative Research1
Introduction to the Special Issue: Systemic Therapy With People of Color1
Porges, S. W. (2021). Polyvagal safety: Attachment, communication, and self‐regulation. WW Norton, Incorporated, 320 pp., $45.001
“I'm fighting with BPD instead of my partner”: A dyadic interpretative phenomenological analysis of the lived experience of couples navigating borderline personality disorder1
“I Know How to Identify and Communicate My Needs”: A Qualitative Study of the Self‐Perceived Strengths of People in Polyamorous Relationships1
Kauppi, M. (2021). Polyamory: A clinical toolkit for therapists (and their clients). Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN: 978‐15381298901
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Profiles and Transitions of Adolescents' Differentiation of Self and Perceived Social Support: Associations With Loneliness and Depressive Symptoms1
Reasons for Separation and Divorce, Coparenting, and Child Behavioral and Emotional Difficulties: A Common Fate Analysis1
Words matter: The role of family weight talk in anxiety and depression1
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Family Rituals and Quality of Life: The Mediating Role of Parental Burnout1
WilloughbyB.J. (2020). The Millennial marriage. New York, NY: Routledge, 230 pp., $23.96.1
Barriers to Systemic Therapy Services Among Transgender and Nonbinary Adults in Canada1
Systematic review and data synthesis on the treatment of sexual violence victimization by an intimate partner1
Couple/Marriage and Family Therapists Extent of Training Experiences for Racism‐Related Stress and Racial Trauma1
“No, It's You:” Dyadic perceived need for change predicts relationship education outcomes1
Ingredients of successful therapeutic relationships with foster youth according to key stakeholders in child welfare: A grounded theory analysis1
Relationship mindfulness, negative relationship quality, and physical health1
Is the association of sexual quality with relationship satisfaction really stronger when the sexual relationship is functioning poorly?1
Promoting Acceptance of Differences: A Web‐Based Intervention for South Korean Couples1
Military Cultural Competence Among Human Service Helping Professionals: A Psychometric Analysis of Three Brief Measures1
Trajectories of incarcerated coparenting: Examining differences across race and ethnicity1
The unspoken experiences of systemic supervisors of color: A modified Delphi study1
An update of the Couple Adaptation to Traumatic Stress Model: Systematic research synthesis of the association between secondary trauma survivor functioning and couple functioning1
Self‐Regulatory Profile Scale: Development and Initial Psychometric Validation Using Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling1
The Role of Family Functioning in the Relationship Between Job Burnout and Parental Burnout in Working Parents: A Moderation Model1
The Impact of Obsessive‐Compulsive Relationship Symptoms on Marital Instability: Mediating Role of Infidelity Tendency1
Delay Discounting Within Couple Relationships: An Initial Exploration1
A Conversation Analytic Study of Interpreter‐Mediated Systemic Therapy: What Makes It Work?1
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Examining intervention hours attended for couples randomly assigned to receive relationship education1
New Strategies for Studies With Families in Borderline Personality Disorder: Challenges and Potentialities of the Use of Genogram1
El Ser del Terapeuta: A narrative examination into family‐of‐origin influence on the professional self of students in family therapy training in Colombia1
Rastogi, M., & Singh, R. (Eds) (2020). Handbook of systemic family therapy (Vol. 4). Hoboken NJ: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9781119438557, pp. 1‐646.1
“Each person's experience, each person's needs”: How therapists open space for multiple perspectives during reflecting team family therapy supervision1
Does Depression and Relationship Distress Predict Longer Couple Therapy Treatment in Naturalistic Settings?1
Introduction to the special section—Bigger isn't always better: The benefits of small‐sample research designs1
Attachment Anxiety and Relationship Satisfaction in the Digital Era: The Contribution of Social Media Jealousy and Electronic Partner Surveillance1
Helping Postdivorce Families Enhance Parent–Child Relationships: Clinical Applications to Effectively Help Divorced Parents Appropriately Communicate Their New Romance With Children1
Further Validation of the Couple Relationship Scale1
Daily Conflict and Relationship Satisfaction in Couples of New Parents: The Moderating Roles of Romantic Attachment and Intimacy1
A test of the dyadic associations between ineffective arguing, emotional distress, and violence perpetration and victimization among couples seeking therapy1
Relationships for Social Change: The Value of the Promotora Framework in Navigating Systems of Employment1
The Interplay Between Relationship Dissatisfaction and Individual Symptoms: Insights From Dyadic Analyses1
Dyadic process and dynamics of caregiving and receiving in suicide recovery among Filipino college‐aged students and their families1
Deliberate practice in systemic family therapy, ByAdrian J.Blow,Ryan B.Seedall,Debra L.Miller,Tony Rousmaniere, Alexandre Vaz: American Psychological Association.2023. $39.99 (paperback).1
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