| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Effects of an intervention designed to enhance romantic relationship excitement: A randomized-control trial. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2013 | 108 |
| 2 | Reasons for divorce and recollections of premarital intervention: Implications for improving relationship education. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2013 | 77 |
| 3 | A family stress-proximal process model for understanding the effects of parental incarceration on children and their families. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2016 | 77 |
| 4 | Mindfulness training and the cultivation of secure, satisfying couple relationships. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2013 | 74 |
| 5 | Differentiation of self: A validation study of the Bowen theory construct. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2012 | 67 |
| 6 | Cardiac vagal tone and quality of parenting show concurrent and time-ordered associations that diverge in abusive, neglectful, and non-maltreating mothers. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2013 | 58 |
| 7 | Paternal postpartum depression: The role of maternal postpartum depression, spousal support, and relationship satisfaction. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2012 | 56 |
| 8 | Nurturing connections in the aftermath of childhood trauma: A randomized controlled trial of emotionally focused couple therapy for female survivors of childhood abuse. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2013 | 54 |
| 9 | Conjoint treatment for intimate partner violence: A systematic review and implications. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2016 | 49 |
| 10 | A content analysis of scholarship on consensual nonmonogamies: Methodological roadmaps, current themes, and directions for future research. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2017 | 49 |
| 11 | Including the self-of-the-therapist in clinical training. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2017 | 47 |
| 12 | Couple-based behavioral HIV interventions: Placing HIV risk-reduction responsibility and agency on the female and male dyad. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2012 | 46 |
| 13 | Brief strategic family therapy: An intervention to reduce adolescent risk behavior. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2012 | 45 |
| 14 | Humility and relationship outcomes in couples: The mediating role of commitment. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2015 | 45 |
| 15 | The technology of measurement feedback systems. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2012 | 44 |
| 16 | In search of an evidence-based approach to understand and promote effective parenting practices. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2017 | 43 |
| 17 | Recovery from infidelity: Differentiation of self, trauma, forgiveness, and posttraumatic growth among couples in continuing relationships. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2014 | 42 |
| 18 | Commitment uncertainty: A theoretical overview. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2014 | 41 |
| 19 | Couple-based interventions for depression. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2012 | 40 |
| 20 | Systemic thinking in couple and family psychology research and practice. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2012 | 39 |
| 21 | Infidelity and behavioral couple therapy: Relationship outcomes over 5 years following therapy. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2014 | 39 |
| 22 | Patterns of marital relationship change across the transition from one child to two. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2015 | 39 |
| 23 | A preliminary evaluation of a relationship education program for male same-sex couples. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2012 | 38 |
| 24 | Childless lesbian and gay adults’ self-efficacy about achieving parenthood. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2013 | 37 |
| 25 | Posttraumatic stress in children and adolescents exposed to family violence: I. Overview and issues. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2011 | 35 |
| 26 | Provision and receipt of emotional spousal support: The impact of visibility on well-being. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2012 | 34 |
| 27 | Child and adolescent depression in the family. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2012 | 34 |
| 28 | Information technology and feedback research can bridge the scientist–practitioner gap: A couple therapy example. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2012 | 33 |
| 29 | Family-based interventions for pediatric obesity: Methodological and conceptual challenges from family psychology. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2011 | 32 |
| 30 | Bridging diversity and family systems: Culturally informed and flexible family-based treatment for Hispanic adolescents. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2013 | 32 |
| 31 | Longitudinal predictors of relationship dissolution among same-sex and heterosexual couples. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2017 | 32 |
| 32 | Can family therapy have an effect on adult criminal conduct? Initial evaluation of functional family therapy. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2013 | 31 |
| 33 | The effectiveness of functional family therapy for youth with behavioral problems in a community practice setting. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2011 | 30 |
| 34 | Individual, couple, and contextual factors associated with same-sex relationship instability. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2015 | 30 |
| 35 | Family services in adult detention centers: Systemic principles for prisoner reentry. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2016 | 30 |
| 36 | Parental mindfulness and dyadic relationship quality in low-income cohabiting Black stepfamilies: Associations with parenting experienced by adolescents. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2014 | 29 |
| 37 | Interparental boundary problems, parent–adolescent hostility, and adolescent–parent hostility: A family process model for adolescent aggression problems. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2014 | 29 |
| 38 | Fluctuations in commitment over time and relationship outcomes. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2014 | 28 |
| 39 | Longitudinal contribution of maternal and paternal depression to toddler behaviors: Interparental conflict and later depression as mediators. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2015 | 27 |
| 40 | Partners in lockdown: Relationship stress in men and women during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2021 | 27 |
| 41 | Relationship standards and relationship satisfaction in Chinese, Western, and intercultural couples living in Australia and Hong Kong, China. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2018 | 27 |
| 42 | Influence of family of origin and adult romantic partners on romantic attachment security. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2011 | 26 |
| 43 | Efficacy of religion-accommodative strategic hope-focused theory applied to couples therapy. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2014 | 25 |
| 44 | The impact of parenting on gay male couples' relationships, sexuality, and HIV risk. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2012 | 24 |
| 45 | Coping mediates the association between marital instability and depression, but not marital satisfaction and depression. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2013 | 24 |
| 46 | Commitment across the transition to parenthood among married and cohabiting couples. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2014 | 24 |
| 47 | Examining parental denigration behaviors of co-parents as reported by young adults and their association with parent–child closeness. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2014 | 24 |
| 48 | Family mealtime dynamics and food consumption: An experimental approach to understanding distractions. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2015 | 23 |
| 49 | Family demands and satisfaction with family life during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2021 | 22 |
| 50 | Perceptions of interparental conflict, romantic attachment, and psychological distress in college students. | Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice | 2013 | 21 |
