Journal of Marital and Family Therapy

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Marital and Family Therapy is 0. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Gender, attachment, and demand/withdraw patterns in the context of moderate couple conflict in cisgender, heterosexual relationships21
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JMFT annual report 202216
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 satisfaction15
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Relationship satisfaction in Black heterosexual couples: The role of self‐compassion and openness12
Client Perspectives of Family Therapy: A Qualitative Systematic Review11
Exploring Gender Minority Stress and the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide: A Path Analysis of Suicidality Among Transgender and Gender‐Diverse People11
The effects of gender identity change efforts on Black, Latinx, and White transgender and gender nonbinary adults: Implications for ethical clinical practice9
Understanding the emotional landscape in the withdrawer re‐engagement and blamer softening EFCT change events9
Empathic Conjectures in Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT): A Process Microanalytic Study8
The trajectory of anxiety in therapy: The role of ACEs8
Fostering connection: A dyadic analysis of the relationships between mattering, attachment, and mental health7
Hendrix, H., & LaKelly Hunt, H. (2021). Doing imago relationship therapy in the space‐between. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 488 pp., $47.507
Explaining the Mental Health Consequences of Internalized Racial Oppression: The Mediating Roles of Family Resilience and Collective Action7
A Grounded Theory Analysis of Control and Freedom in Intimate Relationships7
Work–Family Conflict and Enrichment, Family Routines and Rituals Meaning, and Parental Burnout in UK and Vietnamese Families6
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Estimating Dyad Level Processes in MFT Research: General Overview of the Common Fate Model and Extensions Into Mediation, Moderation, Growth, and Hybrid Models5
It got me thinking: The impact of participating in a divorce decision‐making interview5
Understanding the Experiences of Parents Who Have a Strained Relationship With Their Child in the Context of Divorce or Separation5
Which therapist perceptions best predict client outcomes? A naturalistic examination5
Brief emotion‐focused family therapy: A 12‐month follow‐up study5
The Efficacy of the Hold Me Tight Relationship Education Program Delivered by Paraprofessionals in South Africa5
Couple and family interventions for high mortality health conditions: A strategic review (2010–2019)4
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
Resource Loss and Empathy in Couples During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: The Role of Attachment Behaviors4
Association between help‐seeking and motivation for completing a couple relationship education program across service modality4
A case study of virtually delivered emotion‐focused family therapy4
Divided we fall: Constructive dialoguing about our political differences within family therapy training4
Communication Is Key: The Mediating Effect of Demand–Withdraw Patterns on Partner Phubbing and Couple Satisfaction4
The Premise of Intersectionality for Family Therapy Interventions With Asylum Seekers in the United States4
“As Therapists, We Get to Be Quietly Subversive”: A Qualitative Exploration of CFTs' Social Justice Practices4
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Improvements in depressive symptoms following a brief relationship intervention4
A culturally adapted parenting intervention for the Chilean context: Qualitative indicators of participant satisfaction and contextual and cultural relevance4
Sexual Health and Integrative Pleasure (SHIP) Model: Using a clinical case example to guide assessment and treatment3
No Bad Parts: Healing trauma and restoring wholeness with the internal family systems model By R. C.Schwartz, Boulder, CO: Sounds True. 2021. pp. 199.3
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Black therapists' experiences with their Black clients: A systematic review3
Talking and making meaning about parental mental health problems: The role of children's family caregivers3
Exploring Infidelity Behavior Patterns in a Sample of Peruvian Young Adults: A Latent Class Analysis3
Relevance of Positive Dyadic Coping for Couples Undergoing Assisted Reproduction Treatments: A Systematic Review3
Exploring the effectiveness of emotionally focused therapy for depressive symptoms and relationship distress among couples in Taiwan: A single‐arm pragmatic trial3
How Many Love Languages Are There? Examining Chapman's Five Love Languages Using a Bottom‐Up Approach3
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 youths3
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
JacobB. Priest. (2021). The Science of Family Systems TheoryNew York: Routledge, 190 pp., $48.953
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
Is Our Attachment Hurting Us? Unraveling the Associations Between Partners' Attachment Pairings, Negative Emotions During Conflict, and Intimate Partner Violence3
Wampler, K. S. & Blow, A. J. (Eds.), (2020). The Handbook of Systemic Family Therapy: Volume 3. Systemic Family Therapy with CouplesJohn Wiley & Sons.3
Indirect Effects of Self‐Differentiation and Mentalization on Family of Origin Health and Marital Satisfaction Among Korean Adults3
The role of emotional dysregulation in the association between family‐of‐origin conflict and romantic relationship maintenance3
Canfield, B. (Ed.). (2020). Intercultural perspectives on family counseling. Routledge, 229 pp. $49.952
Consensus, Need Fulfillment, Commitment, and Satisfaction in Couple Relationships: Structural Equation Modeling2
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Thematic analysis of therapists' experiences integrating EMDR and EFT in couple therapy: Theoretical and clinical complementarity, and benefits to client couples2
Mental Health, Substance Use, Trauma Exposure, and Experiences of Discrimination Among Caregivers of Youth With Juvenile Legal System Involvement2
Gambescia, N., Weeks, G. R., & Hertlein, K. M. (2020). A clinician's guide to systemic sex therapy. 3rd Edition. Routledge. ISBN: 978‐03672280642
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
Cost‐Effectiveness of Functional Family Therapy for Youth Probationers in Singapore: Findings From a Randomized Controlled Trial2
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Coparenting change after couple therapy using self‐reports and observational data2
Dulberger, D., & Omer, H. (2021). Non‐emerging adulthood: Helping parents of adult children with entrenched dependence. New York: Cambridge University Press, 150 pp., $29.992
When Parental Burnout Hits: Dyadic Effects on Depressive Symptoms in Chinese Families, Buffering Role of Supportive Coparenting and Differences Across Family Fertility Situations2
Changes in couple, parenting, and individual functioning following Family Expectations program participation2
State of research in MFT: Thoughts from the Editor's Chair2
Correction to “Relationship mindfulness, negative relationship quality, and physical health”2
The interplay of negative urgency and cognitive reappraisal in couples' communication conflict2
Acceptability of Emotionally Focused Therapy in Uganda: The Views of Mental Health Workers2
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Outcomes for Emerging Therapists: Synthesizing Two Decades of Trainee‐Centered Research in C/MFT Master's Programs2
A randomized controlled trial of a 5‐year marriage checkup booster session for a subsample of responder couples2
Effectiveness of a marital relationship skills training intervention on marital adjustment among individuals in Hosanna Town, Southwest Ethiopia: A randomized‐controlled trial2
Perceptions of the effect of parental deportation on adult intimate relationships2
A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Getting Our Hearts Right Program and the Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program in a Sample of Iranian Couples2
A new way to measure partner burden in depression: Construction, validation, and sensitivity to change of the partner burden in depression questionnaire2
What to expect physiologically when you're expecting couples in therapy: A Changing Hearts and Minds in relationshiPS (CHAMPS) descriptive study2
Superwoman Schema and Relationship Satisfaction Among Black Women in the United States: The Mediating Role of Relationship Attachment2
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Families and Therapists Facing Familistic Prejudices in Italy. Developing Context‐Sensitive Therapeutic Practices1
Rastogi, M., & Singh, R. (Eds) (2020). Handbook of systemic family therapy (Vol. 4). Hoboken NJ: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9781119438557, pp. 1‐646.1
Ways Marriage and Family Therapists Can Create Supportive Therapeutic Spaces for Asian American Clients1
New Strategies for Studies With Families in Borderline Personality Disorder: Challenges and Potentialities of the Use of Genogram1
Relational sanctification, communal coping, and depression among African American couples1
Polyamorous Individuals' Jealous and Compersive Responses to Their Partner's New Relationship Energy: The Role of Mindfulness, Emotion Regulation, Distress Tolerance, and Empathy1
Introduction to the special section—Bigger isn't always better: The benefits of small‐sample research designs1
Barker, M. J. & Iantaffi, A. (2019). Life isn’t binary: On being both, beyond, and in‐between. London, UK: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 237 pp., $19.951
Reputation and Responsibility: A Qualitative Investigation of Parents' Experiences of Open Dialogue School Meetings1
Comparison of the effectiveness of enhanced cognitive‐behavioral couple therapy on emotional self‐regulation and couple burnout of self‐assigned and court‐referred incompatible couples1
Science catching up: Experiential family therapy and neuroscience1
Kauppi, M. (2021). Polyamory: A clinical toolkit for therapists (and their clients). Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN: 978‐15381298901
A Conversation Analytic Study of Interpreter‐Mediated Systemic Therapy: What Makes It Work?1
Emotionally focused therapists' experiences serving interabled couples in couple therapy: An interpretative phenomenological analysis1
“No, It's You:” Dyadic perceived need for change predicts relationship education outcomes1
Self‐Regulatory Profile Scale: Development and Initial Psychometric Validation Using Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling1
Military Cultural Competence Among Human Service Helping Professionals: A Psychometric Analysis of Three Brief Measures1
Being Me While Loving You: The Role of Autonomy in the Association Between Insecure Attachment and Relationship Satisfaction1
Dyadic Associations of Suicidal Risk Predicting Relationship Satisfaction in a Clinical Sample1
Validation of a new assessment of hostile attribution bias in romantic relationships: The Hostile Attributions in Romantic Relationships Test1
Barriers to Systemic Therapy Services Among Transgender and Nonbinary Adults in Canada1
Therapists' confidence in their theory of change and outcomes1
Family Rituals and Quality of Life: The Mediating Role of Parental Burnout1
Ingredients of successful therapeutic relationships with foster youth according to key stakeholders in child welfare: A grounded theory analysis1
The development of a dyadic family life review intervention for the Asian diaspora: A practice article1
“We're in this together”: Attachment insecurities, dyadic coping strategies, and relationship satisfaction in couples involved in medically assisted reproduction1
Couple Enrichment Clinic as a Model of Promotive and Preventive Mental Health Care in South India1
Dyadic process and dynamics of caregiving and receiving in suicide recovery among Filipino college‐aged students and their families1
Words matter: The role of family weight talk in anxiety and depression1
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A comparison of classroom‐based and online multicultural training course within a marriage and family therapy training program1
Relationship mindfulness, negative relationship quality, and physical health1
The unspoken experiences of systemic supervisors of color: A modified Delphi study1
Daily Conflict and Relationship Satisfaction in Couples of New Parents: The Moderating Roles of Romantic Attachment and Intimacy1
“Extremely toxic and evil” reflections on gender identity change efforts by Christian religious leaders: Implications for therapy with transgender and nonbinary clients1
Family‐based treatments for attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A review of family functioning outcomes in randomized controlled trials from 2010 to 20191
Is the association of sexual quality with relationship satisfaction really stronger when the sexual relationship is functioning poorly?1
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Helping Postdivorce Families Enhance Parent–Child Relationships: Clinical Applications to Effectively Help Divorced Parents Appropriately Communicate Their New Romance With Children1
The Association Between Mindfulness, Shared Relationship Activity Engagement, Connectedness, and Positive Interaction in Couple Relationships1
Parental efficacy after a military parenting program: A dyadic latent growth model1
Heart and mind of hypnotherapy: Inviting connection, inventing changeFlemons, D. (2022). W.W. Norton. ISBN‐10:039371439X, 266 pp., $35.1
Client Perspectives of Premature Discontinuation in Couple Therapy1
“I'm fighting with BPD instead of my partner”: A dyadic interpretative phenomenological analysis of the lived experience of couples navigating borderline personality disorder1
Telehealth delivery of GenerationPMTO in the public mental health system: A pragmatic, noninferiority study1
Profiles and Transitions of Adolescents' Differentiation of Self and Perceived Social Support: Associations With Loneliness and Depressive Symptoms1
A Machine Learning Approach for Investigating Variable Importance in Relationship and Sexual Satisfaction: The Role of Interpersonal Mindfulness and Psychological Safety1
Relationships for Social Change: The Value of the Promotora Framework in Navigating Systems of Employment1
Handbook of Bowen family systems theory and research methods: A systems model for family research. Keller, M. N., & Noone, R. J. (Eds.) (2020). Routledge. 468 pp., $95.96 (paperback)0
The effectiveness of structural family therapy in repairing behavioral problems and improving family functioning in single‐parent families in Iran0
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Assessments for multi‐heritage couple therapy: A review of existing tools0
An examination of gender difference in advancement and salary for Marriage and Family Therapy faculty members working in public universities0
An attachment perspective on couple interaction: Helping couples signal needs clearly and respond appropriately0
Helping couples achieve relationship success: A decade of progress in couple relationship education research and practice, 2010–20190
Introduction to the special issue on the efficacy and effectiveness of couple and family interventions: Evidence base update 2010–20190
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Integrative Culinary Therapy: An Innovative Approach to Treating Black Couples0
Flourishing Love: A secular guide to lasting intimate relationships By Gnaulati, Enrico, Biecester; United Kingdom: Karnac Books. 2024. pp. 225. $19.95. ISBN: 13: 978‐1‐80013‐208‐50
Married women's response to spousal pornography use: A grounded theory0
Problem resolution scale: A single‐item instrument for easily assessing clinical improvement0
Pilot test of JUNTOS EN PAREJA: Enhancing relationship and financial well‐being in Latine couples0
Schmidt H. A. E., & Sibley D. S. (2019). Contextual Therapy for Family Health: Clinical Applications. Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 198 pp. $42.950
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Assessment of forgiveness in couple relationships: Adaptation of the Marital Offense‐Specific Forgiveness Scale (MOFS) to a Spanish sample0
Family‐based treatments for disruptive behavior problems in children and adolescents: An updated review of rigorous studies (2014–April 2020)0
Maternal engagement, relational closeness, and adolescent internalizing symptoms: The association of engaged mothering with adolescent depression and anxiety0
Essential Design Principles for a Family Digital Mental Health Intervention: A Delphi Study0
Training Paraprofessionals to Implement Hold Me Tight in South Africa: Outcomes and Experiences0
Profiles of Psychological Adjustment to Divorce and Separation: Associations With Attachment Insecurity, Forgiveness of the Former Partner, and Emotion Regulation Difficulties0
The ROOTS Parenting Intervention to Improve Child Emotional and Physical Health: Protocol for a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial for Black and Latiné Families0
Transforming Seven Kinds of Relational Pain0
A Narrative Study on the Role of Colombian Uncles in Family Dynamics0
Trajectories of Child and Caregiver Positive Coping Following a Brief Emotion‐Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) Intervention0
Predicting change in relationship distress and depressive symptoms among couples in Taiwan: The role of attachment, emotional expressivity, and gender roles in Emotionally Focused Therapy0
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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
Couple therapy with parents: Results from a pragmatic randomized controlled trial testing the Integrative Brief Systemic Intervention (IBSI)0
Tilsen, J. (2021). Queering your therapy practice: Queer theory, narrative therapy, and imagining new identitiesNew York, NY: Routledge0
Testing the predictions of Chapman's five love languages theory: Does speaking a partner's primary love language predict relationship quality?0
El Ser del Terapeuta: A narrative examination into family‐of‐origin influence on the professional self of students in family therapy training in Colombia0
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Understanding African American help‐seeking for romantic relationships: Advocacy, barriers, and considerations0
Emotion regulation in emotionally focused therapists working with high‐conflict couples0
“Be Open to All Those Ways That People Can Live Their Lives:” LGBTQ+ Client Recommendations for Adapting Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy0
Examining intervention hours attended for couples randomly assigned to receive relationship education0
Processes and outcomes of an emotion‐focused family therapy two‐chair intervention for transforming problematic parenting patterns0
Reconsider the Anger of Marginalized Communities0
The Loss in Connection with Catastrophes (LICCS) Scale: Understanding couple outcomes0
The bottom‐up approach in multigenerational family therapy: The child as the family guide0
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A review of the research during 2010–2019 on evidence‐based treatments for couple relationship distress0
Promoting Acceptance of Differences: A Web‐Based Intervention for South Korean Couples0
Revisiting the Five Love Languages Framework: Toward a More Flexible Model of Love Expression0
Accepting influence in military couples: Implications for couples’ communication and family satisfaction0
Reunification, reconsidered: Presenting an integrative, single‐therapist framework for resolving parent–child contact problems0
A Family Centered Approach to Mandated Reporting: An Anticarceral Praxis for Couple and Family Therapists Working With BIPOC Families0
The importance of highlighting culturally relevant factors in the DEEP analysis when using IBCT with African American couples0
The future of divorce support: Is “digital” enough in presence of conflict?0
Answering the ethical call of the other: A test of the Strong Relationality Model of Relationship Flourishing0
Racial trauma: Clinical strategies and techniques for healing invisible wounds By Kenneth V.Hardy, New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2023. pp. 480. $36.99. ISBN: 978-1-324-03043-00
Assessing family relations in borderline personality disorder: A relational approach0
Justifying by degrees: A grounded theory of men's decision‐making process in infidelity0
Mindfulness, awareness, partner caring, and romantic relationship quality: Structural equation modeling0
Dyadic interaction of parentification in Chinese families of maternal depression: A qualitative study0
The Associations Between Adverse Childhood Experiences, Shared Religious/Spiritual Practices, and Relationship Satisfaction in Couple Therapy: Sessions 1 Through 60
Bangladeshi Couple Therapists’ Perspectives of Divorce Decision‐Making0
Trans‐Cending the Mononormativity of Relationship Therapy: An Intersectional Framework for Increasing Competency0
Addressing intergenerational trauma in Black families: Trauma‐informed socioculturally attuned family therapy0
Attachment Dimensions and Infertility: Exploring Psychological Outcomes Through Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis0
Attachment Anxiety and Relationship Satisfaction in the Digital Era: The Contribution of Social Media Jealousy and Electronic Partner Surveillance0
Dyadic Analysis of Cumulative Childhood Trauma and Relationship Satisfaction: The Role of Parental Alliance0
Couples relationship standards and satisfaction in Pakistani couples0
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Systemic Intervention Through Relational Savoring: Cultural Considerations for Working With Asian American Families0
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Relationship standards and Malay Muslim couples' marital satisfaction0
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Does My Friend Like My Romantic Partner? Links Among Relationship Work With Partners and Friends and Physiological Implications0
Understanding barriers to couples therapy0
Emotional worlds colliding: A qualitative exploration of the emotional experiences of transgender and cisgender women in romantic relationships during transition0
“Each person's experience, each person's needs”: How therapists open space for multiple perspectives during reflecting team family therapy supervision0
“My Mama Don't Like You and She Likes Everyone”: The Role of Family Approval in Partner Conflict and Satisfaction0
Affection preference, enactment, and relationship satisfaction: A dyadic analysis of love languages0
Gottman's sound relationship house and relational resilience through infertility for couples0
“Bringing and Removing Self from the Table”: Therapists’ use and management of eating disorder lived experience in the treatment of clients with eating disorders0
WilloughbyB.J. (2020). The Millennial marriage. New York, NY: Routledge, 230 pp., $23.96.0
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
Multifamily therapy in the community mental health network: A pragmatic randomized and controlled study0
The development of a reliable change index and cutoff score for the SCORE‐150
Black and Latiné parents' perspectives on supporting their children's emotional and physical health0
Systematic review and data synthesis on the treatment of sexual violence victimization by an intimate partner0
Teaching Through Immersive Experience: Mixed‐Reality Simulation for Couple Therapy Training0
Parents' reflective functioning and their agreement on treatment goals in attachment‐based family therapy for sexual and gender minority young adults and their nonaccepting parents0
Forty Years of Couple Therapy Process Research and We Are Still Just Getting Started: A Review of Quantitative Research0
Examining engagement in a self‐in‐relationship observation exercise by couples coping with breast cancer: A qualitative analysis of text‐based feedback0
The systemic‐family‐individual approach: The heritage and continuation of Mara Selvini Palazzoli's work in integrative psychotherapy0
Multigenerational transmission of differentiation of self – Toward a more in‐depth understanding of Bowen's theory concept0
Identifying Informal Help‐Seeking Patterns in African American Couples0
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Deepening Understanding of Family Dynamics in Chinese Culture: Reflective Writing in Professional Education0
Development and psychometric properties of the Couple Interaction Pattern Scale0
How therapists respond to “uneven” alliances in couple and family therapy: A conversation‐analytic study0
Trajectories of incarcerated coparenting: Examining differences across race and ethnicity0
Reimagining Singlehood in Urban India Through Intersectional Narratives and Support Systems: An Ethnographic Study0
Pathways for Public Impact: Utilizing Engaged Scholarship for Translating Systemic Family Therapy Research to Policy and Practice0
Intragenerational Support for Gender‐Questioning and Trans Youth: Centering the Sibling Subsystem in Affirmative Systemic Therapy0
Emotion‐focused skills training for parents with anxious children. A pilot study0
The mediating role of marital quality in parenting intervention: Effects on preschoolers' conduct problems and effortful control0
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.0
Dyadic examination of parents' general psychological distress and coparenting in families with young children: The mediating role of couple satisfaction0
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Delay Discounting Within Couple Relationships: An Initial Exploration0
“How did you stay together so long?” Relationship longevity, a cross‐generational qualitative study0
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Data‐Driven Insights: A University‐Based Family Therapy Clinic Study in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Using the SCORE‐150
Perceived overlap and therapy outcomes among couple clients0
Skills and knowledge therapists need to work with foster youth and families: According to key stakeholders in child welfare0
Attachment insecurities and under‐commitment in distressed couples: The role of positive and negative partner behaviors0
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Treated together–changed together: The application of dyadic analyses to understand the reciprocal nature of alliances and couple satisfaction over time0
Effects of adding video feedback to emotionally focused therapy supervision: A concurrent multiple‐baseline across subjects design0
Affordances and Opportunities for Relational Wellness0
Physical Aspects of Sexuality, Attachment, and Sexual Satisfaction0
Performance‐based family therapy: A therapist's guide to measurable change.Fishman, H. C. (2022). New York, NY: Routledge, 256 pp., $39.95.0
Measuring Differentiation of Self Within the Greek Culture: Theoretical and Psychometric Validation of a Greek Short Form of the Differentiation of Self Inventory‐Revised0
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