Family Process (journal)
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| Discipline | Family studies, clinical psychology, marriage and family therapy |
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| Language | English, Spanish, Chinese |
| Edited by | Jay Lebow |
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Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Family Process Institute (United States)
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Publication history
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1962-present |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
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| ISSN |
1545-5300 |
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Family Process is a quarterly peer-reviewed 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. Family Process 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.
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 3.0 ranking it 1st out of 40 journals in the category "Family Studies" and 21st out of 119 journals in the category "Clinical Psychology".
The journal was established in 1962 by Nathan Ackerman, Donald deAvila Jackson, and Jay Haley as a mutual project of the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto and the Family Institute, later to be named the Ackerman Institute for the Family, in New York City. 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 models, emphasis on the family life cycle, culture, immigration, marital therapy, and gender. In the early 1980s, Bloch retired as editor, and Carlos Sluzki became the new editor. Under his leadership, the journal became more focused on the diversity of families.
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