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Losing a parent during childhood: The impact on adult romantic relationships. Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Carline J M van Heijningen,Sheila R van Berkel,Iris Langereis,Bernet M Elzinga,Lenneke R A Alink
The disruption of the parent-child attachment bond due to parental death (PD) may lead to lingering feelings of unsafety or insecurity that might potentially transfer to adult intimate relationships. The aim of the current study was to investigate whether experiencing childhood parental death (CPD) was associated with adult romantic relationship formation and stability, attachment style, and relationship
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Longitudinal associations of spousal support and strain with health and well‐being: An outcome‐wide study of married older U.S. Adults Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Pedro Antonio de la Rosa, Julia Nakamura, Richard G. Cowden, Eric Kim, Alfonso Osorio, Tyler J. VanderWeele
In the present study, we examined the prospective associations of both spousal support and spousal strain with a wide range of health and well‐being outcomes in married older adults. Applying the analytic template for outcome‐wide designs, three waves of longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study (n = 7788, Mage = 64.2 years) were analyzed using linear regression, logistic regression, and
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“They're not my daughter, and yet…they're also not my son”: Parents negotiating their adult child's nonbinary gender identity Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-14 Samuel H. Allen, Leigh A. Leslie
Scholars are increasingly recognizing that substantial gender heterogeneity exists among transgender populations; that is, gender identities that defy the ubiquitous binary categories of male and female. However, the developing research base on the families of transgender adults focuses almost exclusively on the family members of transgender persons with binary gender identities, a noteworthy shortcoming
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Understanding the link between intimate partner violence exposure and children's self‐regulation: The mediating role of parenting stress and warmth Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-13 Ying Zhang, Qingyang Liu, Xiafei Wang
Intimate partner violence (IPV), affecting approximately 16.3% of U.S. households annually, has detrimental effects on children who witness it, leading to psychological distress, developmental delays, and behavioral issues. Self‐regulation, a critical skill in managing attention, emotions, and behaviors essential for cognitive and social development, may be significantly impacted. The negative associations
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“I remember most of my family seeing it”: The presence of others during child physical abuse, as conveyed in forensic interviews with Israeli children Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-13 Bella Klebanov, Carmit Katz
Child physical abuse is often perceived as a crime perpetrated within the family and out of sight. However, recent studies have indicated the presence of others during incidents of physical abuse. The current study was designed to examine the experiences and perceptions of children who were physically abused in their families concerning the presence of others, as conveyed during their forensic interviews
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The family alliance as a facilitator of therapeutic change in systemic relational psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder: A case study Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Iolanda D'Ascenzo, Anna Vilaregut, Verónica Zurdo, Sonia Torras, Ignacio Bolaños Cartujo
Managing the Therapeutic Alliance is often complex when it comes to the treatment of borderline personality disorder (BPD), but the alliance is crucial for the success of the therapy. Combined individual and family interventions have been shown to be very useful in treating of these cases. This study has two objectives. First, to describe how the family therapeutic alliance facilitates therapeutic
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Within‐family processes among safety nets, maternal parenting stress, and child behavioral problems among low‐income families: The importance of race and ethnicity Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Qiong Wu, Melissa Radey, Lenore McWey, Eugenia Flores Millender
Research has long emphasized the adverse effects of poverty on children; however, within‐family processes of how safety nets offset the effects of poverty differ by race and ethnicity are unclear. Guided by the context‐sensitive family stress model, the current study investigated within‐family processes among safety nets, maternal parenting stress, and child behavioral problems among low‐income families
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A latent profile analysis of relationship satisfaction and self‐regulation among low‐income participants who attended relationship education with a partner Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Ryan G. Carlson, Naomi J. Wheeler, Xun Liu, Nakita Carroll
Relationship education has shown promising effects for low‐income couples on outcomes such as promoting positive communication, improving global relationship satisfaction, parenting, and individual psychological distress. Studies also indicate that couples' baseline distress (e.g., relational and individual) moderates outcomes. Yet, few studies implemented a person‐centered approach to analyzing data
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Hopelessness for family members of individuals with borderline personality disorder Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-05 Mary Joyce, Mary Kells, Emily Boylan, Paul Corcoran, Bláthín Power, Stephanie Wall, Daniel Flynn
Family members and loved ones of individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) can experience high levels of distress. Types of distress reported by family members include burden, grief, depression, guilt, and powerlessness. Hopelessness is a construct that has received little attention despite its potential relevance for this group. This study sought to examine, and assess potential change
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Development and psychometric evaluation of a new domain‐specific coparenting measure: Coparenting Children's Emotion Scale Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Christina C. Ambrosi, Phillip S. Kavanagh, Subhadra Evans, Sophie S. Havighurst
Caregivers play an integral role in supporting children's development, not only through their individual parenting practices but also how they work together as coparents. The literature on coparenting is extensive; however, most of the research has relied on global measures to assess the quality and functioning of the coparenting relationship. Examining the coparenting relationship with domain‐specific
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Bolstering family therapy: Assimilating EMDR into ABFT in youth residential treatment Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Meredith Dellorco, Olivia Lynch, Erin Ziegelmeyer, Michael Roeske, Payne Winston‐Lindeboom, Guy Diamond
The psychotherapy field has a long history of integration to improve treatment effectiveness. One type, assimilative integration, offers innovative opportunities to family therapy to incorporate the clinical and research contributions of different approaches. This paper contributes to the literature on integration by exploring how Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) can be assimilated
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Family reaction to coming out (FRCO): A Spanish adaptation and validation of perceived parental reactions scale Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Juan E. Nebot‐Garcia, Rafael Ballester‐Arnal, Estefanía Ruiz‐Palomino, Olga Fernández‐García, María Dolores Gil‐Llario
Family reactions to coming out can affect the mental health of individuals who disclose their sexual orientation or gender identity. Therefore, it is important to have an appropriate tool to assess them. The Perceived Parental Reactions Scale (PPRS) assessed perceived parental reactions to the disclosure of gay, lesbian, or bisexual sexual orientation by their children. We adapted the PPRS so that
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Stress and child internalizing symptoms: Examining the moderating role of Latino fathers' warmth and support Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-08 Yvita Bustos, Jefferson Uriarte, Karen Glownia, Alex Leon, Catherine DeCarlo Santiago
Latino immigrants within the United States experience various stressors, which have been linked to the development and exacerbation of internalizing symptoms among Latino youth. Therefore, it is crucial to explore factors that may buffer the impact of stress among immigrant families. Fathers may influence child outcomes through positive parenting behaviors, yet Latino fathers have been underrepresented
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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 sessions Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Álvaro Ruiz, Yolanda Quiles, Eva León‐Zarceño, Maria José Quiles, María Roncero, Ricardo Sanmartin
Eating disorders (ED) usually involve hospital admission and a high relapse rate, with the return home being a critical moment for patients and their families. After their return home, they often have trouble incorporating the guidelines they have learned into their daily context. ECHOMANTRA intervention program aims to facilitate this transition by offering psychological strategies that involve both
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Caregivers of individuals with borderline personality disorder: The relationship between leading caregiver interventions and psychological distress/positive mental well‐being Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Aoife Hayes, Lynn Courey, Mary Kells, Doreen Hyndman, Maria Dempsey, Mike Murphy
Burden and psychological distress are higher in informal caregivers (ICs) of people with severe emotional and behavior dysregulation who have been given a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder (BPD) compared with non‐caregivers. The current cross‐sectional study examines the difference in outcomes of ICs of people with BPD who have received the intervention Family Connections (FC) and who also
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Family meals are associated with lower substance use in female adolescents Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Danny Rahal, Michael R. Irwin, Andrew J. Fuligni
Adolescents, especially female youth, who have more family meals tend to be at lower risk for substance use. The present study tested whether family meals relate to substance use count and frequency during high school, whether associations differ by gender, and whether other family‐related variables explain these associations. A community sample of 316 adolescents (Mage = 16.40, SD = 0.74; 56.96% female;
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Couple relationship education content: What we have and what we are missing Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Sarah E. Griffes, Nathan R. Hardy, Ty J. Gregson, Matthew W. Brosi, Brandt Gardner
Couple relationship education (CRE) has decades of research showing mixed results for participants. Various competing frameworks for CRE content have emerged in the development of the field, yet content has not been systematically investigated. Through an inductive content analysis of 15 different CRE programs, this study explored content themes and categories that are common across programs. Analysis
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Decolonially speaking, sensing, and thinking: Racialized tuition‐based family therapists learning without teaching Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 marcela polanco, Pankaj Kumar, Fraol “Frada” Olyad, Claire Henry Enemark
We address the ethical implications of training and becoming family therapists in the United States when considering the colonial control and management of knowledge by the westernized institutionalized university. We do so decolonially. Through the work of decolonial thinkers, doers, and sensers, we center our discussion on the heteropatriarchal Eurocentric institutionalization of knowledge linked
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“This whole journey was sacred”: Latter‐day Saint parents' process in coming to accept a transgender child Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Julia Campbell Bernards, Quintin Hunt, Cass Henriques, Angie Bledsoe, Richard Ostler
This constructivist grounded theory (CGT) study examines Latter‐day Saint (LDS) parents' process in coming to accept a transgender or gender diverse (TGD) child and the factors that impact acceptance. Data come from interviews with 38 LDS parents of TGD children and 130 Facebook posts from the same population. Data were analyzed using CGT methodology in coding and theory construction. A model of LDS
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Elevating Black fathers' experiences in the National Fatherhood Initiative: Strengths and areas for improvement of 24/7 Dad® curriculum and case management services Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Laura A. Voith, Katie N. Russell, Ashley Withrow, Jennifer Kearney, Tian Xia, Darrell Coleman
The Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood grant program is one of the most robust mechanisms supporting fatherhood programming in the United States, with the gold standard of care including fatherhood curriculum (e.g., 24/7 Dad®) and case management services. Despite the fact that fatherhood in the United States is not a monolith and Black fathers make up over 40% of those served through Responsible
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The mediation model of social status on the link between parental attachment, aggressive behavior, and psychological well‐being: Evidence from two studies in Vietnamese adolescents and young adults Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Thanh‐Minh Nguyen, Nghia Duc Tri Nguyen, Anh‐Tram Ngoc Vo, Khoi Le, An‐Hong Nguyen, Minh‐Chuong Duc Nguyen
Little is known about how insecure attachment affects aggressive behavior and well‐being among Vietnamese youth. Using structural equation modeling, we investigate the mediating role of subjective social status (SSS) on the paths from insecure attachment to overt aggressive behavior (OAB) and psychological well‐being (PW) in a sample of 1753 Vietnamese adolescents (Mage = 16.136, SD = 0.784) and test
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Fathers' experiences with supportive parenting interventions: A qualitative systematic review Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Shefaly Shorey, Cornelia Chee, Sharan Kaur Sambhi, Shang Chee Chong, Mahesh Choolani
Despite proven efficacy, fatherhood interventions face challenges in attracting and retaining participants. This qualitative systematic review aims to inform the future design of fatherhood interventions by consolidating and synthesizing the evidence around fathers' experiences with interventions aimed at enhancing their involvement and relationships with their children. Following PRISMA guidelines
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Caregiving stress and maternal mental health during the COVID‐19 pandemic Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Kelsey M. Quigley, Rachel Kwon, Charles A. Nelson, Michelle Bosquet Enlow
It has now been extensively documented that parental mental health has deteriorated since the beginning of the COVID‐19 pandemic. Although pandemic‐related stress has been widespread, parents faced the unique challenge of navigating remote schooling. Parental oversight of children's education, loss of access to school supportive resources, and the challenges of remote learning may have been most problematic
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“Saying ‘I'm not okay’ is extremely risky”: Postpartum mental health, delayed help‐seeking, and fears of the child welfare system among queer parents Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Abbie E. Goldberg, Reihonna L. Frost
Parent mental health challenges in the postpartum and early parenthood have profound implications for parent, child, and family well‐being. Little research has focused on postpartum mental health challenges and barriers to help‐seeking among queer birthing people, including members of this community who may be particularly vulnerable to mental health difficulties, such as queer cis women partnered
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One way or another…or both: Different roles of fathers, mothers, and adolescents in the intergenerational transmission of inclusive attitudes Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Fabio Maratia, Elisabetta Crocetti
This study aimed to examine the processes of intergenerational transmission of attitudes toward migrant integration policies in families with adolescents. Participants included 809 adolescents (Mage = 15.61, range: 13.87–20.04 years), 545 fathers (Mage = 51.19, range: 38–77 years), and 716 mothers (Mage = 48.11, range: 33–68 years) involved in a longitudinal study with two assessments and a time‐lag
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Interparental conflict trajectories across various child residence arrangements when parents live apart. Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Tonje Holt,Maren Sand Helland,Linda Larsen,Kristin Gustavson,Bruce Smyth
In Norway, as in most Western countries, a growing proportion of parents living apart choose shared residence for their children. The aim of this study was to investigate trajectories of five interparental conflict dimensions across four child residence arrangement groups (and three combination groups) to improve understanding of different conflict trajectories when parents live apart. We used data
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Family-centered profiles of mindful parenting: Longitudinal associations with negative parenting and youth emotional and behavioral problems. Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Maite Larrucea-Iruretagoyena,Justin Parent,Izaskun Orue
There has been great interest in analyzing the potential of mindful parenting in promoting family well-being. Studies indicated that there is a lack of research on the predictive relationship between parenting practice and youth emotional and behavioral problems analyzed from a multi-informant perspective. This study evaluates the family-centered profiles of mothers and fathers' mindful parenting and
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Dealing with couple infidelity in romantic relationships: A group intervention feasibility study. Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-16 Karen Ripoll-Núñez,Kristina Coop Gordon
The extent to which group therapy benefits individuals who have experienced couple infidelity remains unexamined. In this study, a brief group intervention for individuals who experienced couple infidelity was designed, and the feasibility of the intervention was evaluated (i.e., acceptability; implementation; measurements' performance and, limited-efficacy testing). The final sample was composed of
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Critical consciousness and anti-racist action as rooted in family processes. Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-16 Yesenia Mejia,N Keita Christophe,Frances M Lobo,Ariane Desmarais,Gabriela L Stein
Racially ethnically marginalized communities in the United States are exposed to structural and interpersonal forms of racism that have harmful effects on their health, wealth, education, and employment (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Racism and Health. https://www.cdc.gov/minorityhealth/racism-disparities/index.html, 2021). Although a plethora of research exists outlining these harmful
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A special section: Contributions of family science to anti-racism efforts. Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-12 Emma M Sterrett-Hong
Concomitant with a growing recognition of demographic shifts toward greater racial/ethnic diversity in the United States and widespread depictions of racial injustice, desires for increased racial/ethnic tolerance and inclusivity have been expressed in various sectors of U.S. society, including education, healthcare, and business. However, the literature on effective strategies and interventions for
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Family bonds and personal factors in caregiver burden in patients at the end of life. Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Olga Ribera-Asensi,Marián Pérez-Marín,Selene Valero-Moreno
Family caregivers are defined as those who assume substantial responsibilities for the care of an ill loved one without formal health care training. This study aims to analyze the predictors of physical and emotional burden in caregivers of palliative patients using qualitative comparative analysis methodologies (QCA) and taking into account patient and caregiver personal and relational variables.
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Sources of attitudes towards parent-child co-sleeping and their effects: A systematic scoping review. Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Sarah P Kruse,Levita D'Souza,Hannah G G Tuncer,Sandra E Stewart
Parent-child co-sleeping is a common practice in many cultures, although in Western countries, families who engage in parent-child co-sleeping can encounter attitudes about co-sleeping that feel critical from the people around them, as it is not commonly accepted and often stigmatized. This systematic scoping review examined and synthesized the available literature on the attitudes about parent-child
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The process in-between: Parents' perceptions about how practitioners promote the outcomes of the Incredible Years Basic program. Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Sara M Leitão,Rita Francisco,Maria João Seabra-Santos,Maria Filomena Gaspar
Practitioners are recognized as one of the key components that make parenting interventions meaningful and helpful to families, and the impact of practitioners' skills on the outcomes of parenting interventions has been consistently recognized in research. However, the mechanisms and ongoing processes through which the practitioners' actions and skills may impact parental engagement and other outcomes
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Searching for who benefits most and least: An analysis of moderators of the TRUE Dads fatherhood intervention Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Philip A. Cowan, Carolyn Pape Cowan
Evaluations of interventions to promote fathers' involvement in family life typically focus on whether or not the intervention has a positive impact. Some evaluations also attempt to describe mediators that explain how the intervention is linked to specific outcomes. An evaluation of TRUE Dads, a Randomized Clinical Trial of a couples‐based fatherhood intervention for low‐income families, reported
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Couple relationship functioning and social adjustment during the transition to parenthood among fathers with a history of maltreatment Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Samantha A. Murray‐Perdue, Andrew Conway, Mark E. Feinberg
Study of fathers has gained significant traction over recent decades. However, the experience for men over the transition to parenthood remains focused on high‐socioeconomic and socially advantaged fathers. Researchers have yet to thoroughly investigate how fathers may uniquely experience this transition period with a history of childhood maltreatment, given that childhood abuse is known to impact
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Considering context: Current relationship satisfaction in a second‐generation model of men's physical intimate partner violence Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Amy M. Smith Slep, Richard E. Heyman, Kelly A. Daly, Katherine J. W. Baucom
Despite a half‐century of scholarship devoted to explicating and disrupting the intergenerational transmission of family violence, it remains a prominent and destructive social force in the United States. Theoretical models have posited a variety of historical and concurrent risk and protective factors implicated in the trajectory from childhood violence exposure to adult perpetration. Using a second‐generation
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The longitudinal impact of an evidence‐based multiple family group intervention (Amaka Amasanyufu) on family cohesion among children in Uganda: Analysis of the cluster randomized SMART Africa‐Uganda scale‐up study (2016–2022) Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-18 William Byansi, Ozge Sensoy Bahar, Latoya Small, Phionah Namatovu, Josephine Nabayinda, Joshua Kiyingi, Abel Mwebembezi, Gertrude Nakigozi, Kimberly Hoagwood, Mary M. McKay, Fred M. Ssewamala
Family functioning plays a critical role in childhood disruptive behavior disorders (The Family Journal, 2003, 11(1), 33–41; Research in Nursing and Health, 2016, 39(4), 229–243). Yet, there is limited research on the impact of evidence‐based family strengthening interventions on improving family cohesion as a protective factor among children experiencing behavioral challenges. To address this gap
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Power dynamics in couple relationships: A review and applications for systemic family therapists Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Bonnie Young, Ryan B. Seedall
Power dynamics, generally defined as the patterns of partners enacting or resisting influence, are inherent in all relationships. Power structures and processes play a role in people's perceptions of themselves and others, their feelings and emotions, and both their implicit and explicit behaviors. As such, understanding power dynamics is crucial for fully conceptualizing and intervening within relationships
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Long‐term effects of a preventive intervention on multiple components of adolescents' emotional insecurity Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Sarah Hoegler Dennis, Savannah Vetterly, E. Mark Cummings
A gap in research on family interventions is the understanding of long‐term effects on hypothesized mechanisms of effect regarding children's processes of responding to family stressors. This study assessed the long‐term effects of an intervention designed to improve interparental and family conflict resolution on adolescents' emotional insecurity about interparental conflict. Emotional insecurity
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Lost in translation: Therapeutic Alliance as a mediator in the relationship between teletherapy and marital satisfaction Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Angela B. Bradford, Alyssa Banford Witting, Shayne R. Anderson, Lee N. Johnson, Quintin A. Hunt, Richard B Miller, Roy A. Bean
The global impact of the SARS‐COV‐2 pandemic necessitated a rapid shift to online/teletherapy psychotherapy services. While research suggests the feasibility and efficacy of teletherapy, there is limited investigation into couple teletherapy's impact on satisfaction and therapeutic alliance. This study aimed to address this gap by examining changes in couple satisfaction during tele‐ and in‐person
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Psycho‐emotional intervention with parents of very preterm babies during the first year: A single‐arm pilot study Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Eva M. Padilla‐Muñoz, M. Merced Barbancho‐Morant, M. Dolores Lanzarote‐Fernández, Susana Sanduvete‐Chaves, Salvador Chacón‐Moscoso
Studies of intervention programs that aim to improve the emotional state of parents of children admitted to the neonatal intensive care units (NICU) are scarce in Spain. The aims of this single‐arm pilot study are to get to know the emotional profile of parents of high‐risk preterm newborns, and to explore parents' patterns of emotional well‐being before and after a psychological program called the
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Mental health profiles of depressive symptoms and personal well‐being among active‐duty military families Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Catherine Walker O'Neal, Justin A. Lavner, Todd M. Jensen, Mallory Lucier‐Greer
Although some research has examined the mental health of individual family members in military families, additional research is needed that considers mental health among multiple members of the family system simultaneously and that characterizes subsets of families with distinct patterns. Mental health patterns of depressive symptoms and well‐being in and among families were identified using latent
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A family reunion of “clinical cousins”: Attachment and emotion in four family‐oriented therapy models Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Allen K. Sabey, Adele Lafrance, James Furrow, Guy Diamond, Daniel Hughes
Attachment theory and the science of emotion provide a strong foundation for intervention at the family system level. Four therapeutic models in particular, Attachment‐Based Family Therapy, Emotion‐Focused Family Therapy, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, and Emotionally Focused Family Therapy, demonstrate how a broad and accurate view of attachment relationships and emotion can be utilized to effectively
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The impact of cultural stress on family functioning among Puerto Rican displaced families and the effect on mental health Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 María Fernanda García, Pablo Montero‐Zamora, Christopher P. Salas‐Wright, Mildred Maldonado‐Molina, Maria Pineros‐Leano, J. C. Hodges, Melissa Bates, Eric C. Brown, Jose Rodríguez, Ivonne Calderón, Seth J. Schwartz
Hurricane María caused significant devastation on the island of Puerto Rico, impacting thousands of lives. Puerto Rican crisis migrant families faced stress related to displacement and relocation (cultural stress), often exhibited mental health symptoms, and experienced distress at the family level. Although cultural stress has been examined as an individual experience, little work has focused on the
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How adult children of incarcerated parents experience ambiguous loss Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Kelly King, Peggy Whiting, Damon Toone, Taheera Blount
Families can experience grief when they lose a loved one to incarceration. Although there has not been a death, the removal of a family member from day‐to‐day life and the uncertainty and stigma surrounding incarceration pose major challenges. We applied consensual qualitative research methods to understand the unique grief experience that adult children have when a parent is incarcerated. Our findings
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Cultural adaptation of an intervention for caregivers of young autistic children: Community members' perspectives Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Adriana Kaori Terol, Hedda Meadan, Laura R. Gómez, Sandy Magaña
Caregivers of autistic children in low‐to‐middle‐income countries experience many barriers to access resources to support their child's development. Caregiver training is considered an evidence‐based practice and may be a cost‐effective way to support caregivers of autistic children in such settings. This study focuses on the cultural adaptation of Parents Taking Action (PTA; Magaña et al., Family
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Silencing or silent transmission? An exploratory study on trauma communication in Kurdish refugee families Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Ruth Kevers, Sofie de Smet, Peter Rober, Cécile Rousseau, Lucia De Haene
Trauma communication in refugee families is increasingly recognized as an important relational dynamic influencing psychosocial well-being, yet studies exploring interactional dynamics and meaning making at play in intra-family trauma communication remain scarce. This article reports on a qualitative study with Kurdish refugee families including parents (N = 10) and children (N = 17) resettled in Belgium
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Predictors of change in relationship satisfaction among Black postpartum mothers Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Danielle M. Weber, Chalandra M. Bryant, Hannah C. Williamson, Kadija Mussa, Justin A. Lavner
The transition to parenthood can be a challenging time for the relationships of new parents and result in declines in relationship satisfaction. Although a robust literature has identified characteristics that predict changes in relationship satisfaction during this period, the relationships of Black mothers postpartum remain understudied. To address this gap, we examined a set of relational, individual
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Coparenting as a family‐level construct: Parent and child inputs across the first two years Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Liu Bai, Ulziimaa Chimed‐Ochir, Douglas M. Teti
This study examined the effects of infant negative affectivity (NA) and maternal and paternal depressive symptoms on fathers' and mothers' perceptions of coparenting across the first 2 years following an infant's birth. A total of 147 two‐parent families (most couples were White, married, and living together) with healthy, full‐term infants were recruited. At each time point, fathers and mothers separately
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Culturally adapting relational savoring: A therapeutic approach to improve relationship quality Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Jessica L. Borelli, Elayne Zhou, Lyric N. Russo, Frances H. Li, Marta Tironi, Ken S. Yamashita, Patricia A. Smiley, Belinda Campos
Relational savoring (RS) is a brief, strengths‐based approach to heightening attentional focus to moments of positive connectedness within relationships. RS can be administered preventatively or within an intervention context when a therapist aspires to foster more optimal relational functioning. Typically administered within a one‐on‐one therapy setting, RS has demonstrated efficacy in enhancing intra‐
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Parent strategies to help emerging adults manage stress are associated with their mental health: A dyadic coping perspective Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Melissa A. Lippold, Michaeline Jensen, Gregory E. Chase, Kacey Wyman, Melissa R. Jenkins, Somya Mohanty, Guy Bodenmann
Emerging adults (EAs) are at high risk for mental health challenges and frequently reach out to their parents for support. Yet little is known about how parents help emerging adults manage and cope with daily stressors and which strategies help and which hinder EA mental health. In this cross‐sectional pilot study of students at a 2‐ and 4‐year college (ages 18–25, N = 680, mean age = 19.0), we extend
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A socioemotional network perspective on momentary experiences of family conflict in young adults Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Xinyi Wang, Amanda L. McGowan, Gregory M. Fosco, Emily B. Falk, Dani S. Bassett, David M. Lydon‐Staley
Family conflict is an established predictor of psychopathology in youth. Traditional approaches focus on between‐family differences in conflict. Daily fluctuations in conflict within families might also impact psychopathology, but more research is needed to understand how and why. Using 21 days of daily diary data and 6‐times a day experience‐sampling data (N = 77 participants; mean age = 21.18, SD
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A case–control study to differentiate parents' personality traits on anorexia nervosa and affective disorders Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-23 L. Rodríguez‐Mondragón, A. Moreno‐Encinas, M. Graell, F. J. Román, A. R. Sepúlveda
Eating disorders (ED) and affective disorders (AD) in adolescent population and several investigations have pointed out that specific family dynamics play a major role in the onset, course, and maintenance of both disorders. The aim of this study was to extend the literature of this topic by exploring differences between parents' personality traits, coping strategies, and expressed emotion comparing
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The relationship between emotional intimate partner violence and other forms of violence: A metaanalytic review Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Megan L. Palmer, Brooke M. Keilholtz, Summer L. Vail, Chelsea M. Spencer
The present study aimed to explore the relationship between emotional intimate partner violence (IPV) and different forms of violence (e.g., stalking perpetration and victimization, physical IPV perpetration and victimization, sexual IPV perpetration and victimization, and controlling behaviors) using a meta‐analysis. Data from 188 studies, yielding 382 effect sizes, were used to compare the strength
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“One man, one life, one marriage”: A qualitative analysis of Hmong women's divorce experiences Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Malina Her, Zha Blong Xiong, Cahya Haniva Yunizar
Despite the rising divorce rates in some immigrant communities in the US, there has been scant scholarly attention on how immigrants experience divorce, particularly on the role of culture in the divorce process. The primary goal of the present study was to explore the diverse divorce experiences of Hmong immigrants in the United States. As a patrilineal and patriarchal community, divorce is generally
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Some subtleties of whiteness in the workplace: Steps for shifting the paradigm Family Process (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Kenneth V. Hardy
This paper asserts that whiteness is a major ideological framework that is subtlety interwoven into our institutional structures and is a major organizing principle in the workplace. Efforts to increase racial equity, inclusion, and belongingness within the workplace and throughout society at large are ineffectual and virtually impossible without addressing the deleterious effects of whiteness. Addressing