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Featured Article: Volume 63, Issue 4

Power dynamics in couple relationships: A review and applications for systemic family therapists

Bonnie Young, Ryan B. Seedall, 
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Bonnie Young is a licensed marriage and family therapist and published author of several academic articles and essays on relationships, religion, and mental health. She is the founder of Azure Counseling, an online mental health clinic focused on treating clients with anxiety, religious OCD / scrupulosity, and sexual disorders. She currently lives in Logan, Utah where she is completing her doctoral studies at Utah State University in marriage and family therapy. Her dissertation work explores questions about women’s experience with power dynamics in marriage.

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Reciprocal Relationship Between Parental Technoference and Adolescent Problematic Mobile Phone Use: The Longitudinal Mediating Roles of Paternal and Maternal Attachment

Zhaoyang Xie, Cheng Xu, Ningning Feng, Lijuan Cui, 
  •  28 July 2025
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Intergenerational Solidarity With Older Parents and Self‐Esteem of Middle‐Aged Children During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: The United States and South Korea Comparison

Woosang Hwang, Maria T. Brown, Merril Silverstein, 
  •  17 July 2025
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Using Language as a Marker of Culture: Phenomenology of Asian American Multilingual Clinicians

Wonyoung L. Cho, Erin J. Newell, Mik Dailey, Sam David, Clara Villalobos Andino, 
  •  30 June 2025
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Emotional Echoes: Exploring the Dynamic Bond Between Parental Emotion Dysregulation and Child Emotion Lability

Xiaoyue Wang, Ruibo Xie, Min Jiang, Ting He, Wan Ding, 
  •  22 June 2025
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Factors Associated With Psychological Distress in Parents of LGBT+ People

Elodie Charbonnier, Lucile Montalescot, Gaetan Briet, Maxime Deshayes, Marylou Gouilly, Sarah Le Vigouroux, Nicolas Pellerin, Cédric Thiers, Florence Lespiau, 
  •  19 June 2025
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An application of the Biobehavioral Family Model: Examining the impact of maternal depression on child asthma mediated by insecure attachment and child depression

JungHa Lim, Bruce D. Miller, Beatrice L. Wood, 

The impact of responsible fatherhood programs on parenting, psychological well‐being, and financial outcomes: A randomized controlled trial

Patricia L. Kohl, Melissa J. Krauss, Courtney King, Shih-Ying Cheng, Patrick Fowler, Destini N. Goodwin, Cheri D. Tillis, Halbert Sullivan, Amy Sorg, Nancy B. Mueller, 

Effects of a brief parenting intervention on Latinx mothers and their children

Abigail L. Mills, Luisa Lopez Mader, Jennifer Burke Lefever, Amy K. Nuttall, Kathryn Bigelow, Judith J. Carta, John G. Borkowski, 
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The couple’s tree of life: Promoting and protecting relational identity

Carlos A. Chimpén-López, Meritxell Pacheco, Teresa Pretel-Luque, Rebeca Bastón, Daniel Chimpén-Sagrado, 
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Parenting in times of refuge: A qualitative investigation

Hend Eltanamly, Patty Leijten, Floor van Rooij, Geertjan Overbeek, 
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Recent issues

The following is a list of the most cited articles based on citations published in the last three years, according to CrossRef.

Family Resilience: A Framework for Clinical Practice

Froma Walsh Ph.D., 
  •  1-18
  •  18 August 2004

Loss and Resilience in the Time of COVID‐19: Meaning Making, Hope, and Transcendence

Froma Walsh, 
  •  898-911
  •  17 July 2020
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The Concept of Family Resilience: Crisis and Challenge

FROMA WALSH Ph.D., 
  •  261-281
  •  September 1996

Applying a Family Resilience Framework in Training, Practice, and Research: Mastering the Art of the Possible

Froma Walsh, 
  •  616-632
  •  6 December 2016

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Circumplex Model of Marital and Family Systems: I. Cohesion and Adaptability Dimensions, Family Types, and Clinical Applications†

DAVID H. OLSON Ph.D., DOUGLAS H. SPRENKLE Ph.D., CANDYCE S. RUSSELL Ph.D., 
  •  3-28
  •  APRIL, 1979
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