''Family Process'' is a quarterly
peer-reviewed
Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work (peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review ...
academic journal covering research on family system issues, including policy and applied practice. It is published by
Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Family Process Institute.
Since 2007, the journal publishes its abstracts in Chinese and Spanish in addition to English. The journal publishes original articles, including theory and practice, philosophical underpinnings, qualitative and quantitative clinical research, and training in couple and family therapy, family interaction, and family relationships with networks and larger systems.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the ''
Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has a 2020
impact factor of 3.532.
History
The journal was established in 1962 by
Nathan Ackerman,
Donald deAvila Jackson, and
Jay Haley as a mutual project of the
Mental Research Institute and the Family Institute (later to be named the
Ackerman Institute for the Family).
Haley became the first
editor-in-chief. During this decade, the journal was sold for $1,000 to what would become the Family Process Institute.
Don Bloch became the second editor.
Included in the journal during his tenure was the development of the many types of
family therapy
Family therapy (also referred to as family counseling, family systems therapy, marriage and family therapy, couple and family therapy) is a branch of psychology and clinical social work that works with families and couples in intimate relationsh ...
models, emphasis on the family life cycle, culture, immigration,
marital therapy, and
gender.
In the early 1980s, Bloch retired as editor, and was succeeded by Carlos Sluzki. During his tenure, the journal became more focused on the diversity of families.
Peter Steinglass became editor in the 1990s.
Two different trends appeared: a growth of
empirical research and the advancement of evidence-based and evidence-informed models of treatment, and the unfolding of the
narrative approach in family therapy. These different paradigms, belief systems, sets of assumptions, and approaches to knowledge inhabited the journal side by side.
Randomized clinical trials were reported in the journal for the first time.
From 1998-2003, the editorship passed to Carol Anderson, the journal's first woman editor.
In the first decade of the 21st century, Evan Imber-Black became editor
with the journal publishing both clinical and research issues on such topics as
divorce,
Latino families,
asthma, and
interdisciplinary training. During this time, the first translations into Spanish appeared along with translated abstracts into simple Chinese and Spanish.
In 2012,
Jay Lebow
Jay Lebow (born June 18, 1948) is an American family psychologist who is senior scholar at the Family Institute at Northwestern University, clinical professor at Northwestern University and is editor-in-chief of the journal ''Family Process''. H ...
became the current editor.
Video abstracts are now available online for many of the journal's articles, and the first
Chinese translation of a full article was published in the journal in 2012.
References
External links
*{{Official website, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15455300
Family therapy journals
Multilingual journals
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Publications established in 1962
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