Topics
Adolescents
Carr, A. (2016), Family Therapy for Adolescents: A Research‐informed Perspective. Aust N Z J Fam Ther, 37: 467-479. doi:10.1002/anzf.1184
Cottrell, D. and Boston, P. (2002) Practitioner Review: The effectiveness of systemic family therapy for children and adolescents. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 43: 573–586. doi: 10.1111/1469-7610.00047
Cottrell, D., Fonagy, P., Target, M., Kurtz, Z. and Phillips, J. (2005) What works for whom? A critical review of treatments for children and adolescents. New York: Guilford Publications.
Diamond, G.S., Wintersteen, M.B., Diamond, G.M., Shelef, K. and Levy, S. (2010) Attachment-based family therapy for adolescents with suicidal ideation: a randomized controlled trial. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 49(2): 122-131.
Farzim, P. (2008) The Accounts of Adolescents Growing Up with Parental Mental Illness. Systemic psychotherapy doctoral thesis. Birkbeck College (University of London) Library & Institute of Family Therapy Library.
Feder, M.M. and Diamond, G.M. (2015) Parent-therapist alliance and parent attachment-promoting behaviour in attachment-based family therapy for suicidal and depressed adolescents, Journal of Family Therapy, 38(1), pp. 82–101. doi: 10.1111/1467-6427.12078.
Garoff, F.F., Heinonen, K., Pesonen, A.-K. and Almqvist, F. (2011) Depressed youth: Treatment outcome and changes in family functioning in individual and family therapy, Journal of Family Therapy, 34(1), pp. 4–23. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6427.2011.00541.x.
González Moller, J., Heaphy, G. and Urrutia Ortiz, J. (2021), The Feasibility of Systemic Interventions for the Prevention and Treatment of Children and Adolescents Mental Health Difficulties in Latin American Countries: A Mixed Studies Systematic Review. Journal of Family Therapy. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6427.12327
Higham, J.E., Friedlander, M.L., Escudero, V. and Diamond, G. (2011) Engaging reluctant adolescents in family therapy: An exploratory study of in-session processes of change, Journal of Family Therapy, 34(1), pp. 24–52. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6427.2011.00571.x.
Hughes, G. & Afuape, T. (2015) What’s our story? Centralising young people’s experiences of ‘gangs’, crews and collectives to promote wellbeing. in T. Afuape & G. Hughes (eds) Liberation Practices. Towards Well=Being Through Dialogue. Routledge.
Ewing, E.S.K., Diamond, G. and Levy, S. (2015) Attachment-based family therapy for depressed and suicidal adolescents: Theory, clinical model and empirical support, Attachment & Human Development, 17(2), pp. 136–156. doi: 10.1080/14616734.2015.1006384.
Levy, S.A., Russon, J. and Diamond, G.M. (2016) Attachment-based family therapy for suicidal Lesbian, gay, and bisexual adolescents: A case study, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 37(2), pp. 190–206. doi: 10.1002/anzf.1151.
Liddle, H.A., Rowe, C.L., Dakof, G.A., Henderson, C.E. and Greenbaum, P.E. (2009) Multidimensional family therapy for young adolescent substance abuse: Twelve-month outcomes of a randomized controlled trial, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 77(1), pp. 12–25. doi: 10.1037/a0014160.
McDonald, R.J., Signal, T. and Canoy, D. (2021), Family Therapy for Conduct Disorder: Parent/Caregiver Perspectives on Active Ingredients. Aust N Z J Fam Ther, 42: 160-173. https://doi.org/10.1002/anzf.1447
Nielsen, P., Rigter, H., Weber, N., Favez, N., & Liddle, H. A. (2022). In-session gaming as a tool in treating adolescent problematic gaming. Family Process, 00, 1– 16. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12846
Nolte, L. and Wren, B. (2016) Talking or keeping silent about parental mental health problems-a grounded theory of parents’ decision making and experiences with their children, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, . doi: 10.1111/jmft.12177.
Parsons, R. (2003) A process study of systemic psychotherapy with self harming adolescents in Zimbabwe. Systemic Psychotherapy Doctoral Thesis. Tavistock Library [contact]
Retzlaff, R., von Sydow, K., Beher, S., Haun, M.W. and Schweitzer, J. (2013) The efficacy of systemic therapy for Internalizing and other disorders of childhood and adolescence: A systematic review of 38 Randomized trials, Family Process, 52(4), pp. 619–652. doi: 10.1111/famp.12041.
Shute, J. (2011) Family support as a gang reduction measure, Children & Society, 27(1), pp. 48–59. doi: 10.1111/j.1099-0860.2011.00368.x.
Waraan, L., Siqveland, J., Hanssen-Bauer, K., Czjakowski, N. O., Axelsdóttir, B., Mehlum, L., & Aalberg, M. (2022). Family therapy for adolescents with depression and suicidal ideation: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Clinical child psychology and psychiatry, 13591045221125005. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/13591045221125005
Wilson, J. (2012) A social relational critique of the biomedical definition and treatment of ADHD; ethical practical and political implications, Journal of Family Therapy, 35(2), pp. 198–218. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6427.2012.00607.x.
Woolfenden, S.R. (2002) Family and parenting interventions for conduct disorder and delinquency: A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials, Archives of Disease in Childhood, 86(4), pp. 251–256. doi: 10.1136/adc.86.4.251.
von Sydow, K., Retzlaff, R., Beher, S., Haun, M.W. and Schweitzer, J. (2013) The efficacy of systemic therapy for childhood and adolescent Externalizing disorders: A systematic review of 47 RCT, Family Process, 52(4), pp. 576–618. doi: 10.1111/famp.12047.
Wren, B. (2000) Patterns of thinking and communication in families where an adolescent has atypical gender identity development. Systemic psychotherapy doctoral thesis. Tavistock Library [contact]
Adult mental health
Allen, J., Burbach, F. and Reibstein, J. (2013), ‘A Different World’ Individuals’ experience of an integrated family intervention for psychosis and its contribution to recovery. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 86: 212-228. doi:10.1111/j.2044-8341.2011.02057.x
Barbato, A. and D’Avanzo, B. (2020), The Findings of a Cochrane Meta‐Analysis of Couple Therapy in Adult Depression: Implications for Research and Clinical Practice. Family Process 59: 361-375. doi:10.1111/famp.12540
Carr, A. (2009) The effectiveness of family therapy and systemic interventions for adult-focused problems, Journal of Family Therapy, 31(1), pp. 46–74. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6427.2008.00452.x.
Carr, A. (2014), Evidence base for systemic therapy with adults. J. Fam. Ther., 36: 158-194. doi:10.1111/1467-6427.12033
Carr, A. (2019), Couple therapy, family therapy and systemic interventions for adult‐focused problems: the current evidence base. Journal of Family Therapy, 41: 492-536. doi:10.1111/1467-6427.12225
Colmer, E. (2005) Parental mental health and the family: exploring parents’ concerns about their children. Grappling with inter-generational shadows. Systemic psychotherapy doctoral thesis. Tavistock Library [contact].
Farzim, P. (2008) The Accounts of Adolescents Growing Up with Parental Mental Illness. Systemic psychotherapy doctoral thesis. Birkbeck College (University of London) Library & Institute of Family Therapy Library.
Gammage, R. J. & Nolte, L. (2023). Talking and making meaning about parental mental health problems: The role of children’s family caregivers. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12664
Grácio, J., Gonçalves-Pereira, M. and Leff, J. (2016) What do we know about family interventions for psychosis at the process level? A systematic review. Family Process, 55: 79–90. doi: 10.1111/famp.12155
Klevan, T. et al (2016) Between a rock and a softer place—A discourse analysis of helping cultures in crisis resolution teams. Qualitative Social Work, 17(2): 252 – 267
Kuipers, E. (2006) Family interventions in schizophrenia: Evidence for efficacy and proposed mechanisms of change, Journal of Family Therapy, 28(1), pp. 73–80. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6427.2006.00338.x.
Leff, J. (2000) The London depression intervention trial: Randomised controlled trial of antidepressants v. Couple therapy in the treatment and maintenance of people with depression living with a partner: Clinical outcome and costs, The British Journal of Psychiatry, 177(2), pp. 95–100. doi: 10.1192/bjp.177.2.95.
Lemmens, G.M.D., Eisler, I., Buysse, A., Heene, E. and Demyttenaere, K. (2009) The effects on mood of Adjunctive single-family and multi-family group therapy in the treatment of hospitalized patients with Major Depression, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 78(2), pp. 98–105. doi: 10.1159/000201935.
Lemmens, G.M.D., Eisler, I., Dierick, P., Lietaer, G. and Demyttenaere, K. (2009) Therapeutic factors in a systemic multi-family group treatment for major depression: Patients“ and partners” perspectives, Journal of Family Therapy, 31(3), pp. 250–269. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6427.2009.00465.x.
McDonell, M.G., Short, R.A., Hazel, N.A., Berry, C.M. and Dyck, D.G. (2006) Multiple-family group treatment of Outpatients with schizophrenia: Impact on service utilization, Family Process, 45(3), pp. 359–373. doi: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2006.00176.x.
Nolte, L. & Wren, B. (2016) Talking or keeping silent about parental mental health problems – a grounded theory of parents’ decision-making about whether or not to talk to their children about parental mental health difficulties, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 42(4): 731–744. doi: 10.1111/jmft.12177.
Rapsey, E.H.S., Burbach, F.R. and Reibstein, J. (2015), Exploring the process of family interventions for psychosis in relation to attachment, attributions and problem‐maintaining cycles: an IPA study. Journal of Family Therapy, 37: 509-528. doi:10.1111/1467-6427.12085
Seikkula, J., Aaltonen, J., Alakare, B., Haarakangas, K., Keränen, J. and Lehtinen, K. (2006) Five-year experience of first-episode nonaffective psychosis in open-dialogue approach: Treatment principles, follow-up outcomes, and two case studies, Psychotherapy Research, 16(2), pp. 214–228. doi: 10.1080/10503300500268490.
Seikkula, J., Alakare, B., Aaltonen, J., Holma, J., Rasinkangas, A. and Lehtinen, V. (2003) Open dialogue approach: treatment principles and preliminary results of a two-year follow-up on first episode schizophrenia. Ethical and Human Sciences and Services, 5(3), 163-182.
Solomon, Z., Dekel, R. and Zerach, G. (2009) Posttraumatic stress disorder and marital adjustment: The mediating role of forgiveness, Family Process, 48(4), pp. 546–558. doi: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2009.01301.x.
Stanbridge, R.I., Burbach, F.R., Lucas, A.S. and Carter, K. (2003) A study of families’ satisfaction with a family interventions in psychosis service in Somerset, Journal of Family Therapy, 25(2), pp. 181–204. doi: 10.1111/1467-6427.00243.
Stern, S., Doolan, M., Staples, E., Szmukler, G.L. and Eisler, I. (1999) Disruption and reconstruction: Narrative insights into the experience of family members caring for a relative diagnosed with serious mental illness, Family Process, 38(3), pp. 353–369. doi: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1999.00353.x.
Tandt, H.L.N., Leyman, L., Baeken, C., Purdon, C. & Lemmens, G.M.D. (2023) Multi-family therapy for adult outpatients with obsessive-compulsive disorder and their family members, targeting family accommodation. Journal of Family Therapy, 00, 1–19. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6427.12439
Tapias, E., Vila-Badia, R., Cárdenas, M., Ardévol, I., Lacasa, F., Ribalta, T. et al. (2024) KidsTime: A multifamily prevention approach for parents with a mental illness and their children and relatives. Journal of Family Therapy, 00, 1–13. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6427.12451
Thompson, O., Griffiths, M., Allen, J. & Jones, F. (2019) A Delphi survey to explore best practice for practitioners offering family intervention for psychosis to families with children. Journal of Family Therapy, 10 June 2019.
Totsuka, Y. (2008) Young people’s perspectives on family life: experience of parental mental illness and admission to the psychiatric hospital. Systemic psychotherapy doctoral thesis. Tavistock Library. [contact]
Von Sydow, K., Beher, S., Schweitzer, J. and Retzlaff, R. (2010) The efficacy of systemic therapy with adult patients: A Meta-Content analysis of 38 Randomized controlled trials, Family Process, 49(4), pp. 457–485. doi: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2010.01334.x.
Wagstaffe, S. (2006) Depressed Women Talking about Mothering: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Systemic psychotherapy doctoral thesis. Birkbeck College (University of London) Library & Institute of Family Therapy Library.
Alcohol and drugs
Baldwin, S.A., Christian, S., Berkeljon, A. and Shadish, W.R. (2011) The effects of family therapies for adolescent delinquency and substance abuse: A Meta-analysis, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 38(1), pp. 281–304. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2011.00248.x.
Morgan, T.B., Crane, D.R., Moore, A.M. and Eggett, D.L. (2012) The cost of treating substance use disorders: Individual versus family therapy, Journal of Family Therapy, 35(1), pp. 2–23. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6427.2012.00589.x.
O’Farrell, T.J. and Clements, K. (2011) Review of outcome research on marital and family therapy in treatment for alcoholism, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 38(1), pp. 122–144. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2011.00242.x.
Rowe, C.L. (2012) Family therapy for drug abuse: Review and updates 2003-2010, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 38(1), pp. 59–81. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2011.00280.x
Selseng, L.B. and Skjær, O. (2016) Talking about change – Positioning and interpretative repertoires in stories about substance abuse and change. Qualitative Social Work, Vol 17, Issue 2,: 216 – 235
Attachment
Adams, M. (2008) Adolescence and Attachment Revisited – An exploration of the AAI as a clinical tool with adolescents and their families. Systemic psychotherapy doctoral thesis. Tavistock Library [contact]
Diamond, G. (2003) Attachment-Based Family Therapy for Depressed Adolescents: Programmatic Treatment Development, Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 6(2), pp. 107–127. doi: 10.1023/a:1023782510786.
Diamond, G.S. and Stern, R. (2003) Attachment-based family therapy: A program of treatment development research, in Attachment processes in couple and family therapy. New York: Guilford Press.
Diamond, G.S., Wintersteen, M.B., Brown, G.K., Gallop, R., Shelef, K. and Levy, S. (2010) Attachment-based family therapy for adolescents with suicidal Ideation: A Randomized controlled trial, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 49(2), pp. 122–131. doi: 10.1097/00004583-201002000-00006.
Israel, P. and Diamond, G.S. (2012) Feasibility of attachment based family therapy for depressed clinic-referred Norwegian adolescents, Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 18(3), pp. 334–350. doi: 10.1177/1359104512455811.
Liddle, H. and Schwartz, S. (2002) Attachment and family therapy: Clinical utility of adolescent-family attachment research, Family Process, 41(3), pp. 455–76. doi: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2002.41311.x
Child protection
Dwan, M. (2024) A relational understanding of the needs of siblings of children who have been sexually abused. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 45, 55–66. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/anzf.1572
Flatebø, R. (2005) ‘On knowing much and knowing little.’ An exploration of case discussions of child protection teams. Systemic psychotherapy doctoral thesis. Tavistock Library. [contact]
Flåm, A.M. and Handegård, B.H. (2015) Where is the child in family therapy service after family violence? A study from the Norwegian family protection service, Contemporary Family Therapy, 37(1), pp. 72–87. doi: 10.1007/s10591-014-9323-5.
Flyn, K. (2019) Social work reframed? The experiences of social workers applying systemic ideas in child protection. Journal of Family Therapy, 10 June 2019
Stith, S. M., Topham, G. L., Spencer, C., Jones, B., Coburn, K., Kelly, L., & Langston, Z. (2021). Using systemic interventions to reduce intimate partner violence or child maltreatment: A systematic review of publications between 2010 and 2019. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 00, 1– 20. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12566
Syrstad, E. and Ness, O. (2021), “It is not just about doing or saying the right things”: Working systemically with parents whose children are placed in public care. Journal of Family Therapy. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6427.12339
Waldegrave, C. (2006) Contrasting national jurisdictional and welfare responses to violence to children, Social Policy Journal of New Zealand, 27, pp. 57–76.
Children
About Families (2012) Evidence Response. Systemic Therapy: What difference does systemic therapy make to the outcomes for children and families?
Carr, A. (2019) Family therapy and systemic interventions for child‐focused problems: the current evidence base. Journal of Family Therapy, 41: 153-213. doi:10.1111/1467-6427.12226
Clark, A. (2005) Listening to and involving young children: A review of research and practice, Early Child Development and Care, 175(6), pp. 489–505. doi: 10.1080/03004430500131288.
Clarke, A. (2009) Undertaking research with children, in Maynard, T. and Thomas, N. (eds.) An introduction to early childhood studies. Los Angeles: SAGE Publications, .
Cottrell, D. (2003) Outcome studies of family therapy in child and adolescent depression, Journal of Family Therapy, 25(4), pp. 406–416. doi: 10.1111/1467-6427.00258.
Cottrell, D. and Boston, P. (2002) Practitioner review: The effectiveness of systemic family therapy for children and adolescents, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 43(5), pp. 573–586. doi: 10.1111/1469-7610.00047.
Draper, A. and Hancock, M. (2011) Childhood parental bereavement: The risk of vulnerability to delinquency and factors that compromise resilience, Mortality, 16(4), pp. 285–306. doi: 10.1080/13576275.2011.613266.
Edman K, Gustafsson A W, Cuadra C B (2023) Facilitating Children’s In-Session Involvement in Child and Family Therapies: A Dynamic Framework of Clinical Practices. Psychotherapy. Advance online publication. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/pst0000511
Edman K, Gustafsson A W, Cuadra C B (2022) Recognising children’s involvement in child and family therapy sessions: A microanalysis of audiovisual recordings of actual practice. The British Journal of Social Work 52(6): 3480–3500.
Fonagy, P., Cottrell, D. and Phillips, J. (2016) What works for whom? A critical review of treatments for children and adolescents. United States: Guilford Publications.
Garoff, F.F., Heinonen, K., Pesonen, A.-K. and Almqvist, F. (2011) Depressed youth: Treatment outcome and changes in family functioning in individual and family therapy, Journal of Family Therapy, 34(1), pp. 4–23. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6427.2011.00541.x.
Goodwillie, G. (2010) The Impact of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder on Family Relationships: Parental Perspectives. Systemic psychotherapy doctoral thesis. Birkbeck College (University of London) Library & Institute of Family Therapy Library.
Helimäki, M., Laitila, A. and Kumpulainen, K. (2022), “You helped me out of that darkness” Children as dialogical partners in the collaborative post-family therapy research interview. J Marital Fam Ther, 48: 588-603. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12505
Helimäki, M., Laitila, A. and Kumpulainen, K. (2020), ‘Can I tell?’ Children’s participation and positioning in a secretive atmosphere in family therapy. Journal of Family Therapy. doi:10.1111/1467-6427.12296
Lee, W.-Y., Ng, M.-L., Cheung, B.K.L. and Yung, J.W. (2010) Capturing children’s response to parental conflict and making use of it, Family Process, 49(1), pp. 43–58. doi: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2010.01307.x.
Ma, J.L.C. (2021), Family-Based Intervention for Chinese Families of Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in Hong Kong, China. Aust N Z J Fam Ther. https://doi.org/10.1002/anzf.1468
Murphy, R. (2022). How children make sense of their permanent exclusion: a thematic analysis from semi-structured interviews. Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties, 27(1), 43–57. https://doi.org/10.1080/13632752.2021.2012962
Neophytou, K, Rodríguez‐González, M. Triangulated children’s reality: Medical model’s concealing effect versus family systems’ revealing effect. Syst Res Behav Sci. 2020; 1– 13. https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.2669
Neophytou, K, Rodríguez‐González, M, Lampis, J. Embedding co‐sleeping practice within the family systems paradigm: Novel theoretical conceptualization and initial empirical exploration. Syst Res Behav Sci. 2020; 1– 17. https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.2690
Ng, M.Y. and Weisz, J.R. (2016), Annual Research Review: Building a science of personalized intervention for youth mental health. J Child Psychol Psychiatr, 57: 216-236. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.12470
Pentecost, D. (2008) How do Child Psychiatrists Conceptualise ADHD? An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Systemic psychotherapy doctoral thesis. Birkbeck College (University of London) Library & Institute of Family Therapy Library.
Retzlaff, R., von Sydow, K., Beher, S., Haun, M.W. and Schweitzer, J. (2013) The efficacy of systemic therapy for Internalizing and other disorders of childhood and adolescence: A systematic review of 38 Randomized trials, Family Process, 52(4), pp. 619–652. doi: 10.1111/famp.12041.
Strickland-Clark, L., Campbell, D. and Dallos, R. (2002) Children’s and adolescent’s views on family therapy, Journal of Family Therapy, 22(3), pp. 324–341. doi: 10.1111/1467-6427.00155.
von Sydow, K., Retzlaff, R., Beher, S., Haun, M.W. and Schweitzer, J. (2013) The efficacy of systemic therapy for childhood and adolescent externalizing disorders: A systematic review of 47 RCT, Family Process, 52(4), pp. 576–618. doi: 10.1111/famp.12047.
Terol, A. K., Meadan, H., Gómez, L. R., & Magaña, S. (2024). Cultural adaptation of an intervention for caregivers of young autistic children: Community members’ perspectives. Family Process, 00, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12999
Tozer, J. (2007) Does the Sibling Relationship in Childhood Affect Later Parenting? Systemic psychotherapy doctoral thesis. Birkbeck College (University of London) Library & Institute of Family Therapy Library.
Woolfenden, S.R., Williams, K. and Peat, J.K. (2002) Family and parenting interventions for conduct disorder and delinquency: A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials, Archives of Disease in Childhood, 86(4), pp. 251–256. doi: 10.1136/adc.86.4.251.
Clients’ experience of therapy
Campbell, D. (1998) The other side of the story, in Papadopoulos, R.K. and Byng-Hall, J. (eds.) Multiple voices: Narrative in systemic family psychotherapy. New York: Routledge.
Chenail, R.J. (2011) How to conduct clinical qualitative research on the patient’s experience. The Qualitative Report 16(4), pp. 1173-1190
Chenail, R. J., et al. (2012). Clients’ relational conceptions of conjoint couple and family therapy quality: A grounded formal theory. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 38(1), pp. 241-264. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2011.00246.x
Denton, W.H., Nakonezny, P.A. and Burwell, S.R. (2010) The effects of meeting a family therapy supervision team on client satisfaction in an initial session, Journal of Family Therapy, 33(1), pp. 85–97. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6427.2010.00518.x.
Escudero, V., Friedlander, M.L., Varela, N. and Abascal, A. (2008) Observing the therapeutic alliance in family therapy: Associations with participants’ perceptions and therapeutic outcomes, Journal of Family Therapy, 30(2), pp. 194–214. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6427.2008.00425.x.
Gaddis, S. (2004) Re-positioning Traditional Research: Centring Clients’ Accounts in the Construction of Professional Therapy Knowledges, International Journal of Narrative Therapy & Community Work, 2004(2), pp. 1–12.
Helmeke, K.B. and Sprenkle, D.H. (2000) Clients’ perceptions of pivotal moments in couple therapy: A qualitative study of change in therapy, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 26(4), pp. 469–483. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2000.tb00317.x.
Høigilt, A.M. and Bøe, T.D. (2021), Doubt, Hope, Pain, and New Discoveries: Parents’ Experiences of the High-Conflict Program ‘No Kids in the Middle’. Aust N Z J Fam Ther. https://doi.org/10.1002/anzf.1451
O’Neill, I. (2015) What’s in a name? Clients’ experiences of single session therapy, Journal of Family Therapy. doi: 10.1111/1467-6427.12099.
Sheridan, M., Peterson, B.D. and Rosen, K.H. (2010) The experiences of parents of adolescents in family therapy: A qualitative investigation, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 36(2), pp. 144–157. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2010.00193.x.
Stanbridge, R.I., Burbach, F.R., Lucas, A.S. and Carter, K. (2003) A study of families’ satisfaction with a family interventions in psychosis service in Somerset, Journal of Family Therapy, 25(2), pp. 181–204. doi: 10.1111/1467-6427.00243.
Strickland-Clark, L., Campbell, D. and Dallos, R. (2002) Children’s and adolescent’s views on family therapy, Journal of Family Therapy, 22(3), pp. 324–341. doi: 10.1111/1467-6427.00155.
Couple relationships and couples therapy
Allan, R., Klarenbeek‐McKenna, M. & Day, D. (2019) ‘Somebody watching you’: Impact of reflecting teams on hope in couple relationships. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy. 40 (4) pp 383-399
Atkins, D.C., Marín, R.A., Lo, T.T.Y., Klann, N. and Hahlweg, K. (2010) Outcomes of couples with infidelity in a community-based sample of couple therapy, Journal of Family Psychology, 24(2), pp. 212–216. doi: 10.1037/a0018789.
Azzopardi, C. (2007) Maltese couples’ expectations of marriage. Systemic psychotherapy doctoral thesis. Tavistock Library. [contact]
Borcsa, M. & Rober, P. (eds) (2015) Research Perspectives in Couple Therapy. Discursive Qualitative Methods. New York: Springer International.
Byrne, M., Carr, A. and Clark, M. (2004) The efficacy of couples-based interventions for panic disorder with agoraphobia, Journal of Family Therapy, 26(2), pp. 105–125. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6427.2004.00273.x.
Cadenhead, R.A. & Fellin, L.C. (2023) Cultural reflexivity and the referral problem: A discourse analysis of three initial sessions of intercultural couple therapy. Journal of Family Therapy, 45, 348– 380. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6427.12429
Codrington, R. & du Plooy, D.R. (2024) ‘It’s a magnifying glass for your relationship’: a thematic analysis of motivations, benefits, and challenges in consensually non-monogamous relationships. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 45, 5–22. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/anzf.1568
Doss, B. D., Roddy, M. K., Wiebe, S. A., & Johnson, S. M. (2021). A review of the research during 2010–2019 on evidence-based treatments for couple relationship distress. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 00, 1– 24. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12552
Eira Nunes, C., Pascual‐Leone, A., de Roten, Y., Favez, N. and Darwiche, J. (2020). Resolving Coparenting Dissatisfaction In Couples: A Preliminary Task Analysis Study. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 00, 1‐ 15. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12450
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Gingras, A.‐S., Lessard, I., Mallette, F., Brassard, A., Bernier‐Jarry, A., Gosselin, P. and de Pierrepont, C. (2020). Couple Adaptation to the Birth of a Child: The Roles of Attachment and Perfectionism. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 00, 1‐ 14. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12453
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Gottman, JM, Gottman, JS, Cole, C, Preciado, M. ( 2020). Gay, Lesbian, and Heterosexual Couples About to Begin Couples Therapy: An Online Relationship Assessment of 40,681 Couples. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 46, 218– 239. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12395
Gottman, J.M. & Levenson, R.W.(1999) What Predicts Change in Marital Interaction Over Time? A Study of Alternative Models. Family Process 38: 143-158.
Gurman, A.S. (2011) Couple therapy research and the practice of couple therapy: Can we talk?, Family Process, 50(3), pp. 280–292. doi: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2011.01360.x.
Jones, E. and Asen, E. (2000) Systemic couple therapy and depression. London: Karnac Books.
Karvonen, A., Kykyri, V.-L., Kaartinen, J., Penttonen, M. and Seikkula, J. (2016) Sympathetic nervous system synchrony in couple therapy, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 42(3), pp. 383–395. doi: 10.1111/jmft.12152.
Kelly, S., & Kellman, T. (2021). “Don’t you care about the well-being of your race?”: African American couples discuss racial differences involving criticisms of other Black people. Family Process, 00, 1– 16. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12690
Knudson‐Martin, C., Kim, L., Gibbs, E. and Harmon, R. (2021), Sociocultural Attunement to Vulnerability in Couple Therapy: Fulcrum for Changing Power Processes in Heterosexual Relationships. Fam. Proc.. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12635
Lebow, J.L. (2023), Evidence and couple and family therapy. Family Process. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12925
Lebow, J.L., Chambers, A.L., Christensen, A. and Johnson, S.M. (2011) Research on the treatment of couple distress, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 38(1), pp. 145–168. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2011.00249.x.
Lee, W.-Y., Ng, M.-L., Cheung, B.K.L. and Yung, J.W. (2010) Capturing children’s response to parental conflict and making use of it, Family Process, 49(1), pp. 43–58. doi: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2010.01307.x.
Markovic, D. (2007) Systemic Therapists’ Resources for Dealing with Sexual Issues in Clinical Work. Systemic psychotherapy doctoral thesis. Birkbeck College (University of London) Library & Institute of Family Therapy Library.
McIntosh, D. L., & Wang, G. (2024). Assessments for multi-heritage couple therapy: A review of existing tools. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12708
Ness, O. (2011) Learning new ideas and practices together: A co-operative inquiry into learning to use Johnella Bird’s relational language-making approach in couples therapy. PhD thesis. Oldendorff Research Institute, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Science, Tilburg University. Tilburg, The Netherlands.
Nightingale, M., Jones, S.C.T., & Smith, S.D. (2019). Black American Couples’ Perceptions of the Significance of Race and Racial Conversations in Therapy: A Qualitative Study. Journal of Black Sexuality and Relationships 6(2), 37-57. doi:10.1353/bsr.2019.0020.
Oefsti, A. (2008) Some call it love. Exploring Norwegian systemic couple therapists’ discourses of love, intimacy and sexuality. Systemic psychotherapy doctoral thesis. Tavistock Library. [contact]
Rautiainen, E-L, & Aaltonen, J. (2010) Depression: The Differing Narratives of Couples in Couple Therapy. The Qualitative Report, 15(1): 156-175.
Reibstein, J. and Sherbersky, H. (2012) Behavioural and empathic elements of systemic couple therapy: The Exeter model and a case study of depression, Journal of Family Therapy, 34(3), pp. 271–283. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6427.2012.00601.x.
Reynolds, C. & Knudson-Martin, C. (2015) Gender and the Construction of Intimacy among Committed Couples with Children. Family Process, 54: 293–307.
Salinger, J.M., Whisman, M.A., Randall, A.K. and Hilpert, P. (2020), Associations Between Marital Discord and Depressive Symptoms: A Cross‐Cultural Analysis. Family Process. doi:10.1111/famp.12563
Smoliak, O., Al-Ali, K., LeCouteur, A., Tseliou, E., Rice, C., LaMarre, A., Davies, A., Uguccioni, B., Stirling, L., Dechamplain, B., & Henshaw, S. (2023). The third shift: Addressing emotion work in couple therapy. Family Process, 00, 1– 18. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12906
Smoliak, O., Rice, C., LaMarre, A., Tseliou, E., LeCouteur, A., & Davies, A. (2022). Gendering of care and care inequalities in couple therapy. Family Process, 00, e12804. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12804
Smoliak, O., LaMarre, A., Rice, C., Tseliou, E., LeCouteur, A., Myers, M., Vesely, L., Briscoe, C., Addison, M. and Velikonja, L. (2021), The politics of vulnerable masculinity in couple therapy. J Marital Fam Ther. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12530
Spengler, E. S., DeVore, E. N., Spengler, P. M., Lee, N. A. ( 2019). What Does “Couple” Mean in Couple Therapy Outcome Research? A Systematic Review of the Implicit and Explicit, Inclusion and Exclusion of Gender and Sexual Minority Individuals and Identities. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 00, 1– 16. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12415
Sutherland, O., LaMarre, A., Rice, C., Hardt, L. and Le Couteur, A. (2017), New Sexism in Couple Therapy: A Discursive Analysis. Fam. Proc., 56: 686-700. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12292
Witting, A. B., & Busby, D. M. (2022). The Loss in Connection with Catastrophes (LICCS) Scale: Understanding couple outcomes. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 1– 27. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12592
Covid context and working online
Beet, N. & Ademosu, T. (2023) Keeping connected: Family therapists’ experiences of working online during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Family Therapy, 45, 223– 241. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6427.12421
Bradford, A. B., Witting, A. B., Anderson, S. R., Johnson, L. N., Hunt, Q. A., Miller, R. B., & Bean, R. A. (2024). Lost in translation: Therapeutic Alliance as a mediator in the relationship between teletherapy and marital satisfaction. Family Process, 00, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.13004
Feinberg, M.E., A. Mogle, J., Lee, J.-K., Tornello, S.L., Hostetler, M.L., Cifelli, J.A., Bai, S. and Hotez, E. (2022), Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Parent, Child, and Family Functioning. Fam. Proc., 61: 361-374. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12649
Goldberg, A. E., Allen, K. R., & Smith, J. Z. (2021). Divorced and separated parents during the COVID-19 pandemic. Family Process, 00, 1– 22. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12693
Court work
Hickman, S. (2017) Systemic psychotherapists as expert witnesses in the family court: ‘visitors to another world?’ Journal of Family Therapy. 39. 3: 437-453
Disability
Baum, S. (2006) Evaluating the impact of family therapy for adults with learning disabilities and their families, Tizard Learning Disability Review, 11(1), pp. 8–18. doi: 10.1108/13595474200600003.
Guerschberg, K., Rubinowicz, G., Kayton, K., Orfila, M.A & Tucker, R. (2019) Lost in Translation: Conceptualizations about Collaborative Dialogues between Health Professionals and Adults with Intellectual Disabilities with Significant Needs for Support, Especially in Language. International Journal of Collaborative-Dialogic Practices. 9
Kaur, G., Scior, K. and Wilson, S. (2009) Systemic working in learning disability services: A UK wide survey, British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 37(3), pp. 213–220. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-3156.2009.00553.x.
Larkin, M., Unwin, G., Iyer, M., Tsimopoulou, I., Zahid, S., Malik, K., Stenfert Kroese, B. & Rose, J.L. (2018) Cultural affordance, social relationships, and narratives of independence: Understanding the meaning of social care for adults with intellectual disabilities from minority ethnic groups in the UK, International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 64:3, 195-203, DOI: 10.1080/20473869.2018.1469807
Lloyd, H. and Dallos, R. (2008) First session solution-focused brief therapy with families who have a child with severe intellectual disabilities: Mothers’ experiences and views, Journal of Family Therapy, 30(1), pp. 5–28. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6427.2008.00413.x.
Lloyd, H., & Dallos, R. (2006). Solution-focused brief therapy with families who have a child with intellectual disabilities: A description of the content of initial sessions and the processes. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 11(3), 367–386. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359104506064982
Tierney, A.M. (2011) Dialogue: A connection of roots and branches. An enquiry into labeling discourses through the use of multi-stakeholder dialogue in disability services. Tilburg: PrismaPrint
Decolonisation of Systemic Practice
Bracken, P., Fernando, S., Alsaraf, S., Creed, M., Double, S., Gilberthorpe, T., Hassan, R., Jadhav, S., Jeyapaul, P., Kopua, D., Parsons, M., Rodger, J., Summerfield, D., Thomas, P. and Timimi, S. (2021). Decolonising the medical curriculum: psychiatry faces particular challenges. Anthropology & Medicine: https://doi.org/10.1080/13648470.2021.1949892.
Fernando, Suman & Sewell, Hári. Decolonising psychiatry and psychology website.
Hipplewith, Joanne (2023). Disrupting colonialist language to find knowing in praxis. Cultural Foregrounding
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Tynan, Lauren & Bishop, Michelle (2023) Decolonizing the literature review. A relational approcah. Qualitative Inquiry. Vol 29 (3-4) 498-508
Early years and infant-family therapy
Corboz-Warnery, A., Fivaz-Depeursinge, E., Gertsch Bettens, C. and Favez, N. (1993) Systemic analysis of father-mother-baby interactions: The Lausanne triadic play, Infant Mental Health Journal, 14(4), pp. 298–316. doi: 10.1002/1097-0355(199324)14:4<298::AID-IMHJ2280140405>3.0.CO;2-#.
Elliott, A., Slater, C., Opie, J.E. & McIntosh, J.E. (2023) First Nations perspectives and approaches to engagement in infant-family work: attending to cultural safety and service engagement. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 00, 1–8. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/anzf.1562
Favez, N., Scaiola, C.L., Tissot, H., Darwiche, J. and Frascarolo, F. (2010) The family alliance assessment scales: Steps toward validity and reliability of an observational assessment tool for early family interactions, Journal of Child and Family Studies, 20(1), pp. 23–37. doi: 10.1007/s10826-010-9374-7.
Fivaz-Depeursinge, E., Cairo, S., Scaiola, C.L. and Favez, N. (2012) Nine-month-olds“ triangular interactive strategies with their parents” couple in low-coordination families: A descriptive study, Infant Mental Health Journal, 33(1), pp. 10–21. doi: 10.1002/imhj.20314.
Fivaz-Depeursinge, E., Lopes, F., Python, M. and Favez, N. (2009) Coparenting and toddler’s interactive styles in family coalitions, Family Process, 48(4), pp. 500–516. doi: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2009.01298.x.
Fivaz-Depeursinge, E. and Philipp, D.A. (2014) The baby and the couple: Understanding and treating young families. London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Olsson, C.M., Greenwood, C.J., Letcher, P., Tan, E., Opie, J.E., Booth, A. et al. (2023) Adverse experiences in early intimate relationships and next-generation infant–mother attachment: findings from the ATP Generation 3 Study. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 00, 1–12. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/anzf.1564
Opie, J.E., Booth, A.T., Rossen, L., Fivaz-Depeursinge, E., Duschinsky, R., Newman, L. et al. (2023) Initiating the dialogue between infant mental health and family therapy: a qualitative inquiry and recommendations. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 00, 1–28. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/anzf.1569
Opie, J.E., McHale, J.P., Fonagy, P., Lieberman, A., Duschinsky, R., Keren, M. et al. (2023) Including the infant in family therapy and systemic practice: charting a new frontier. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 00, 1–11. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/anzf.1567
Padilla-Muñoz, E. M., Barbancho-Morant, M. M., Lanzarote-Fernández, M. D., Sanduvete-Chaves, S., & Chacón-Moscoso, S. (2024). Psycho-emotional intervention with parents of very preterm babies during the first year: A single-arm pilot study. Family Process, 00, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.13002
Petkova, P. (2006) A Qualitative Analysis of Heterosexual Couples’ Feeding Experience with their Firstborn Infant. Systemic psychotherapy doctoral thesis. Birkbeck College (University of London) Library & Institute of Family Therapy Library.
Philipp, D.A., Szczech, K., Hanson, N.L., O’Hara, G. & Puckett, J. (2023) Virtual care delivery of whole family assessment and intervention with infants and preschoolers: a thematic analysis of clinician and family experiences. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 00, 1–16. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/anzf.1557
Tissot, H. & Favez, N. (2023) The Lausanne Trilogue Play: bringing together developmental and systemic perspectives in clinical settings. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 00, 1–10. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/anzf.1559
Eating disorders
Special Issue: Innovations in the Treatment of Adolescent Eating Disorders (2013) Journal of Family Therapy, 35(S1)
Downs, K.J. and Blow, A.J. (2011) A substantive and methodological review of family-based treatment for eating disorders: The last 25 years of research, Journal of Family Therapy, 35, pp. 3–28. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6427.2011.00566.x.
Gelin, Z., Fuso, S., Hendrick, S., Cook-Darzens, S. and Simon, Y. (2014) The effects of a multiple family therapy on adolescents with eating disorders: An outcome study, Family Process, 54(1), pp. 160–172. doi: 10.1111/famp.12103.
Persuad, Kamala Jeanette (2017) In the margins: Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic women’s narratives of recovering from an eating disorder. DSysPsych thesis, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. Full text available
Wiseman, H., Ensoll, S., Russouw, L., & Butler, C. (2019). Multi-Family Therapy for young people with Anorexia Nervosa: Clinicians and carers’ perspectives on systemic changes. Journal of Systemic Therapies, 38(3), 67-83. https://doi.org/10.1521/jsyt.2019.38.3.67
Wright, S. (2004) Palatable differences. An exploration of the development of anorexia nervosa within the context of the twin relationship. Systemic psychotherapy doctoral thesis. Tavistock Library. [contact]
Education
Special Issue: Multi-family Therapy: Challenging behaviour in educational settings (2012) Context magazine, 123.
Kratochwill, T.R., McDonald, L., Levin, J.R., Scalia, P.A. and Coover, G. (2009) Families and schools together: An experimental study of multi-family support groups for children at risk, Journal of School Psychology, 47(4), pp. 245–265. doi: 10.1016/j.jsp.2009.03.001.
Lau Yuk King (2012) A multiple-family group with youngsters who refuse to attend school: Learning and implications for School-Based Family Counseling, International Journal for School-Based Family Counseling, 4.
Family inpatient units
Plunkett, L.J., Reece, J., Symond, M.P. & Leung, T. (2023) Effectiveness of the Coral Tree Family Service family inpatient unit: a longitudinal study exploring change in family functioning. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 00, 1– 17. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/anzf.1535
Feedback in systemic therapy
Sundet, R. (2017) Feedback as a means to enhance client-therapist interaction in therapy. In T. Tilden and B. Wampold (eds.) Routing outcome monitoring in couple and family therapy (pp. 121–142). Cham (Switzerland): Springer.
van Hennik, R. and Hillewaere, B. (2017), Practice Based Evidence Based Practice. Navigating based on coordinated improvisation, collaborative learning and multi-methods research in Feedback Informed Systemic Therapy. Journal of Family Therapy, 39: 288-309. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6427.12159
Fostering and adoption
Herring, N. (2021) Young people, living in care and adopted, talk about their experiences of receiving an NHS therapeutic intervention. Qualitative research analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Journal of Family Therapy, 43: 426– 444. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6427.12364
Middlecoat, A. (2008) How are the Existing Biological Relationships within Families Affected by Fostering? Systemic psychotherapy doctoral thesis. Birkbeck College (University of London) Library & Institute of Family Therapy Library.
Rushton, A. and Feast, J. (2013) Adversity, adoption and afterwards. Edited by John Simmonds. London: British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF).
Samuels, G.M. (2010) Building kinship and community: Relational processes of Bicultural identity among adult Multiracial adoptees, Family Process, 49(1), pp. 26–42. doi: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2010.01306.x.
Ziminski, J. (2004) Negotiating Entitlements in Kinship Care. Systemic psychotherapy doctoral thesis. Tavistock Library. [contact]
Ziminski, J. (2007) Systemic practice with kinship care families, Journal of Social Work Practice, 21(2), pp. 239–250. doi: 10.1080/02650530701371986.
Gender / gender identity / gender variance / LGBQT+
Allen, S. H., & Leslie, L. A. (2024). “They’re not my daughter, and yet…they’re also not my son”: Parents negotiating their adult child’s nonbinary gender identity. Family Process, 00, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.13058
Blumer, M.L.C., Gavriel Ansara, Y. and Watson, C.M. (2013) Cisgenderism in family therapy: How everyday clinical practices can delegitimize people’s gender self-designations, Journal of Family Psychotherapy, 24(4), pp. 267–285. doi: 10.1080/08975353.2013.849551.
Butler, C., Beavis, J., Aldallal, F., Nelson-Hall, S., & Shah-Beckley, I. (2022) The social construction of gender variance in childhood, adolescence and parenthood: A story completion study. Journal of Family Therapy, 44: 264– 278. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6427.12348
Butler, C., Joiner, R., Bradley, R., Bowles, M., Bowes, A., Russell, C., & Roberts, V. (2019). Self-harm prevalence and ideation in a community sample of cis, trans and other youth. International Journal of Transgenderism, 20(4), 447-458. https://doi.org/10.1080/15532739.2019.1614130
Bytheway, S., & Stephens-Lewis, D. (2024). Heteronormative discourse: Therapist social constructions of intimate partner violence in queer relationships. Feminism & Psychology, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/09593535241235462
Gray, S.A.O., Sweeney, K.K., Randazzo, R. and Levitt, H.M. (2015) “Am I doing the right thing?”: Pathways to parenting a gender variant child, Family Process, 55(1), pp. 123–138. doi: 10.1111/famp.12128.
Gunby, N. & Butler, C. (2023) What are the relationship experiences of in which one member identifies as transgender? A systematic review and meta-ethnography. Journal of Family Therapy, 45, 167– 196. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6427.12409
Heiden-Rootes, K., Ross, K., Moore, R., Hasan, S. and Gulotta, S. (2020). Freedom and struggling openly in psychotherapy: A qualitative inquiry with LGBQ young adults from religious families. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 00, 1- 16. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12442
Ruthann C. Hewett, Nadya R. Chavies, Viena M. Murillo Paredes, Shannon Carnahan, Sade M. Prithwie, and Tracy L. Robinson-Wood (2023) A Framework for Conceptualizing Black Trans Youth Suicide: Combining the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide With Intersectionality Theory. Journal of Systemic Therapies 2023 42:4, 42-59
Istar Lev, A. (2010) How queer!-the development of gender identity and sexual orientation in LGBTQ-Headed families, Family Process, 49(3), pp. 268–290. doi: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2010.01323.x.
Janusz, B., Józefik, B. and Peräkylä, A. (2018) Gender-related issues in couple therapists’ internal voices and interactional practices. Australia and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy. early view
McGeorge, C.R., Coburn, K.O. and Walsdorf, A.A. (2021), Deconstructing cissexism: The journey of becoming an affirmative family therapist for transgender and nonbinary clients. J Marital Fam Ther, 47: 785-802. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12481
Masala B, Love A, Carmichael P, Masic U. Demographics of referrals to a specialist gender identity service in the UK between 2017 and 2020. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 2023;0(0). doi:10.1177/13591045231202372
Mui-Teng Quek, K., Eppler, C. and Morgan, M.L. (2016) Gender in family therapy education: Reflections of cis-females, Journal of Family Therapy, 38(3), pp. 443–462. doi: 10.1111/1467-6427.12122.
Smoliak, O., Al-Ali, K., LeCouteur, A., Tseliou, E., Rice, C., LaMarre, A., Davies, A., Uguccioni, B., Stirling, L., Dechamplain, B., & Henshaw, S. (2023). The third shift: Addressing emotion work in couple therapy. Family Process, 00, 1– 18. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12906
Smoliak, O., LaMarre, A., Rice, C., Tseliou, E., LeCouteur, A., Myers, M., Vesely, L., Briscoe, C., Addison, M. and Velikonja, L. (2022), The politics of vulnerable masculinity in couple therapy. J Marital Fam Ther, 48: 427-446. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12530
Sutherland, O., LaMarre, A. and Rice, C. (2017), The Primacy of Discourse in the Study of Gender in Family Therapy. Family Process., 56: 669–685. doi:10.1111/famp.12294
Sutherland, O., LaMarre, A., Rice, C., Hardt, L. and Le Couteur, A. (2017), New Sexism in Couple Therapy: A Discursive Analysis. Family Process, 56: 686–700. doi:10.1111/famp.12292
Wilson, I., Griffin, C. and Wren, B. (2002) The validity of the diagnosis of gender identity disorder (child and adolescent criteria), Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 7(3), pp. 335–351. doi: 10.1177/1359104502007003032.
Wren, B. (2021) Episystemic injustice. London Review of Books. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n23/bernadette-wren/diary
Wren, B. (2014) Thinking postmodern and practising in the enlightenment: Managing uncertainty in the treatment of children and adolescents, Feminism & Psychology, 24(2), pp. 271–291. doi: 10.1177/0959353514526223.
Wren, B. (2002) “I can accept my child is Transsexual but if I ever see him in a dress I’ll hit him”: Dilemmas in parenting a Transgendered adolescent, Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 7(3), pp. 377–397. doi: 10.1177/1359104502007003006.
High parental conflict
Anderson, S.R., Sumner, B.W., Parady, A., Whiting, J. and Tambling, R. (2019), A Task Analysis of Client Re‐engagement: Therapeutic De‐escalation of High‐Conflict Coparents. Family Process. doi:10.1111/famp.12511
Høigilt, A.M. and Bøe, T.D. (2021), Doubt, Hope, Pain, and New Discoveries: Parents’ Experiences of the High-Conflict Program ‘No Kids in the Middle’. Aust N Z J Fam Ther. https://doi.org/10.1002/anzf.1451
Kjøs, P. and Weie Oddli, H. (2017), Alliance formation in high-conflict custody mediation: a serial case analysis. Journal of Family Therapy. doi:10.1111/1467-6427.12180
Mortimer, R., Morris, E., Pursch, B., Roe, A. & Sleed, M. (2021) Multi-family therapy for separated parents in conflict and their children: intervention development and pilot evaluation. Journal of Family Therapy, 00, 1– 24. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6427.12373
Smyth, B.M. & Moloney, L.J. (2019) Post-separation parenting disputes and the many faces of high conflict: Theory and research. Australia and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy. 40(1) pp 74-84.
Intimate partner violence (formerly known as domestic violence)
Bytheway, S., & Stephens-Lewis, D. (2024). Heteronormative discourse: Therapist social constructions of intimate partner violence in queer relationships. Feminism & Psychology, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/09593535241235462
Coates, L. and Wade, A. (2007) Language and violence: Analysis of Four discursive operations, Journal of Family Violence, 22(7), pp. 511–522. doi: 10.1007/s10896-007-9082-2.
Donovan, C. and Hester, M. (2014) Exploring emotion work in domestically abusive relationships, in Intimate partner violence in LGBTQ lives. New York: Routledge.
Flåm, A.M. and Handegård, B.H. (2015) Where is the child in family therapy service after family violence? A study from the Norwegian family protection service, Contemporary Family Therapy, 37(1), pp. 72–87. doi: 10.1007/s10591-014-9323-5.
Harold, G., Acquah, D., Sellers, R. and Chowdry, H. (2016) What works to enhance inter-parental relationships and improve outcomes for children. A report of research carried out by Early Intervention Foundation.
Karakurt, G., Whiting, K., van Esch, C., Bolen, S.D. and Calabrese, J.R. (2016) Couples therapy for intimate partner violence: A systematic review and Meta-Analysis, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, doi: 10.1111/jmft.12178.
Li, C. K. W. (2023). A qualitative study on how intimate partner violence against women changes, escalates, and persists from pre- to postseparation. Family Process, 00, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12923
McCann, D. (2011) What Does Violence Tell us about Gay Male Relationships? Systemic psychotherapy doctoral thesis. Tavistock Library. [contact]
Stith, S. M., Topham, G. L., Spencer, C., Jones, B., Coburn, K., Kelly, L., & Langston, Z. (2021). Using systemic interventions to reduce intimate partner violence or child maltreatment: A systematic review of publications between 2010 and 2019. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 00, 1– 20. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12566
Stith, SM, Spencer, CM, Ripoll‐Núñez, KJ, et al. ( 2020). International Adaptation of a Treatment Program for Situational Couple Violence. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 46, 272– 288. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12397
Stith, S.M., McCollum, E.E., Amanor-Boadu, Y. and Smith, D. (2011) Systemic perspectives on intimate partner violence treatment, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 38(1), pp. 220–240. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2011.00245.x.
Learning processes
Ness, O. and Strong, T. (2013) Learning new ideas and practices together: A cooperative inquiry, Journal of Family Psychotherapy, 24(3), pp. 246–260. doi: 10.1080/08975353.2013.817268.
Piercy, F.P., Earl, R.M., Aldrich, R.K., Nguyen, H.N., Steelman, S.M., Haugen, E., Riger, D., Tsokodayi, R.T., West, J., Keskin, Y. and Gary, E. (2016) Most and least meaningful learning experiences in marriage and family therapy education, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, doi: 10.1111/jmft.12176.
Management
Barge, K.J. (2006) Living Systemic Constructionist Management Research. Human Systems. 17, pp. 29-52
Older adults / dementia
Ball, P.L. (2024) Systemic family therapists and dementia: A constructivist grounded theory study. Journal of Family Therapy, 00, 1–17. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6427.12453
Cleeve, H., Borell, L. and Rosenberg, L. (2021) ‘Drawing in-situ: Matters of care and representation in daily life with dementia’, Qualitative Research. doi: 10.1177/14687941211049321.
Jeffery, S. (2019) A catch-up on research and evidence for systemic therapies in later life. Context, 165(1), 33–36.
Online therapy / relational teletherapy
Burgoyne, N. and Cohn, A.S. (2020), Lessons from the Transition to Relational Teletherapy During COVID‐19. Family Process.. Accepted Author Manuscript. doi:10.1111/famp.12589
Hardy, N.R., Maier, C.A. and Gregson, T.J. (2021), Couple teletherapy in the era of COVID-19: Experiences and recommendations. J Marital Fam Ther, 47: 225-243. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12501
Hartley, E., Moore, L., Knuckey, A., von Doussa, H., Painter, F., Story, K. et al. (2023) Walk-in Together: A pilot study of a walk-in online family therapy intervention. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 00, 1– 18. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/anzf.1534
Heiden-Rootes, K., Ferber, M., Meyer, D., Zubatsky, M. and Wittenborn, A. (2021), Relational teletherapy experiences of couple and family therapy trainees: “Reading the room,” exhaustion, and the comforts of home. J Marital Fam Ther, 47: 342-358. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12486
Lebow, J.L. (2020), COVID-19, Families, and Family Therapy: Shining Light into the Darkness. Fam. Proc., 59: 825-831. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12590
Maier, CA, Riger, D, Morgan-Sowada, H. “It’s splendid once you grow into it:” Client experiences of relational teletherapy in the era of COVID-19. J Marital Fam Ther. 2021; 47: 304– 319. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12508
McKee, G.B., Pierce, B.S., Tyler, C.M., Perrin, P.B. and Elliott, T.R. (2022), The COVID-19 Pandemic’s Influence on Family Systems Therapists’ Provision of Teletherapy. Fam. Proc., 61: 155-166. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12665
McLean, S.A., Booth, A.T., Schnabel, A. et al. Exploring the Efficacy of Telehealth for Family Therapy Through Systematic, Meta-analytic, and Qualitative Evidence. Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev 24, 244–266 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10567-020-00340-2
Morgan, A.A., Landers, A.L., Simpson, J.E., Russon, J.M., Case Pease, J., Dolbin-MacNab, M.L., Bland, K.N. and Jackson, J.B. (2021), The transition to teletherapy in marriage and family therapy training settings during COVID-19: What do the data tell us?. J Marital Fam Ther, 47: 320-341. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12502
Mosley, M. A., Parker, M. L., & Call, T (2022) MFT supervision in the era of telehealth: Attachment, tasks, and ethical considerations. Journal of Family Therapy, 44: 224– 238. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6427.12352
Taylor, N.C., Springer, P.R., Bischoff, R.J. and Smith, J.P. (2021), Experiential family therapy interventions delivered via telemental health: A qualitative implementation study. J Marital Fam Ther, 47: 455-472. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12520
Organisations and teams
Coles, S.J. & Reed-Purvis, S. (2022) Reflecting Team Practices outside the therapy room: A thematic analysis of a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) away-day process with a team undergoing change. Journal of Family Therapy, 00: 1– 12. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6427.12393
Parenting
Eltanamly, H., Leijten, P., van Rooij, F., & Overbeek, G. (2021). Parenting in times of refuge: A qualitative investigation. Family Process, 00, 1– 16. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12717
Feder, M.M. and Diamond, G.M. (2015) Parent-therapist alliance and parent attachment-promoting behaviour in attachment-based family therapy for suicidal and depressed adolescents, Journal of Family Therapy, 38(1), pp. 82–101. doi: 10.1111/1467-6427.12078.
Tozer, J. (2007) Does the Sibling Relationship in Childhood Affect Later Parenting? Systemic psychotherapy doctoral thesis. Birkbeck College (University of London) Library & Institute of Family Therapy Library.
Physical illness, neurological disorders and healthcare
Altschuler, J. (2013) Migration, illness and health care, Contemporary Family Therapy, 35(3), pp. 546–556. doi: 10.1007/s10591-013-9234-x.
Anthias, Louise (2016) Constructing personal and couple narratives in late-stage cancer: can a typology illuminate the caring partner perspective? Australian & New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 37 (3). pp. 418-430. ISSN 1467-8438
Anthias, Louise (2015) Constructing personal and couple narratives in late stage cancer: A narrative analysis. DSysPsych thesis, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.
Carolan, C.M., Smith, A. and Forbat, L. (2015) Conceptualising psychological distress in families in palliative care: Findings from a systematic review, Palliative Medicine, 29(7), pp. 605–632. doi: 10.1177/0269216315575680.
D’Arrigo‐Patrick, E., Samman, S.K. and Knudson‐Martin, C. (2020), Moving from “I” to “We”: A Grounded Theory Analysis of Couple Therapy with Liver Patients and Their Partners. Family Process. doi:10.1111/famp.12528
Down, G. (2008) Understanding roles and relationships in the care of ill children – a systemic analysis. Systemic psychotherapy doctoral thesis. Tavistock Library.
Farrell, C.M. (2006) Constructing realities – constitutive factors of culture and context in stories of substitute mothers to girls whose biological mothers have died of AIDS in Zimbabwe. Systemic psychotherapy doctoral thesis. Tavistock Library. [contact]
Forbat, L., Place, M., Hubbard, G., Leung, H. and Kelly, D. (2013) The role of interpersonal relationships in men’s attendance in primary care: Qualitative findings in a cohort of men with prostate cancer, Supportive Care in Cancer, 22(2), pp. 409–415. doi: 10.1007/s00520-013-1989-y.
Guerra, S., Oliveira, C., Seidi, C., Sousa, L., & Mendes, Á. (2022) Multifamily interventions in the context of inherited genetic conditions: A scoping review. Journal of Family Therapy, 00, 00– 00. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6427.12424
Mason, B. (2002) The development of a relational approach to the understanding, treatment and management of chronic pain. Systemic psychotherapy doctoral thesis. Tavistock Library. [contact]
Neophytou, K, Rodríguez‐González, M. Triangulated children’s reality: Medical model’s concealing effect versus family systems’ revealing effect. Syst Res Behav Sci. 2020; 1– 13. https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.2669
Salvo T, Davison-Jenkins A, Hitchcock M, Daniilidi X, Lambert D. The journey of ‘Living with Pain’: A feasibility study of the development and running of a collective narrative group. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry. July 2022. doi:10.1177/13591045221112719
Shields, C.G., Finley, M.A., Chawla, N. and Meadors, with P. (2012) Couple and family interventions in health problems, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 38(1), pp. 265–280. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2011.00269.x.
Sousa, H., Ribeiro, O., Afreixo, V., Costa, E., Paúl, C., Ribeiro, F., & Figueiredo, D. (2021). “Should WE Stand Together?”: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effectiveness of family-based interventions for adults with chronic physical diseases. Family Process, 00, 1– 19. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12707
Spagnola, M. and Fiese, B. (2010) Preschoolers with asthma: Narratives of family functioning predict behavior problems, Family Process, 49(1), pp. 74–91. doi: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2010.01309.x.
Vasilopoulou K, Skoutari A, Siomos K, Christodoulou N. “The effects of family therapeutic interventions on mental health and quality of life of children with cancer: A systematic review.” Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 2022;27(3):911-928. doi:10.1177/13591045211061812
Professionals and networks
Averbeck, M. (2006) Fatherhoods in Family Therapy: A Discourse Analysis of Family Therapists’ Contributions to the Constructions of Fatherhoods. Systemic psychotherapy doctoral thesis. Birkbeck College (University of London) Library & Institute of Family Therapy Library.
Tierney, A.M. (2011) Dialogue: A connection of roots and branches. An enquiry into labeling discourses through the use of multi-stakeholder dialogue in disability services. Tilburg: PrismaPrint.
de Vries, S. (2011) Social support and organisation in Swedish family centres and Dutch youth and family centres: The role of professionals and organisations. Masters in education, socialisation and youth policy thesis. University of Utrecht, Netherlands.
Race, racism, culture, ethnicity, bilingualism
Afuape, T. & Kerry Oldham, S. (2022) Beyond ‘solidarity’ with Black Lives Matter: Drawing on liberation psychology and transformative justice to address institutional and community violence in young Black lives. Journal of Family Therapy, 44(1), 20– 43. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6427.12369
Ali, A & Champion, N. (2021) More harm than good: a super-complaint on the harms caused by ‘suspicion-less’ stop and searches and inadequate scrutiny of stop and search powers. London. Criminal Justice Alliance.
Ali, F. (2020) Racism is a Mental Health Crisis. We need to support each other. Here’s how. Huffpost. July 11 2020.
Amorin‐Woods, D. (2020), Habla Mi Idioma? An Exploratory Review of Working Systemically with People from Diverse Cultures: An Australian Perspective. Aust N Z J Fam Ther. doi:10.1002/anzf.1402
Anderson, R., McKenny M., and Stevenson, H. (2019) EMBRace: Developing a Racial Socialization Intervention to Reduce Racial Stress and Enhance Racial Coping among Black Parents and Adolescents. Family Process, 58(1), 53-67.
Anderson, R. E., & Stevenson, H. C. (2019). RECASTing racial stress and trauma: Theorizing the healing potential of racial socialization in families. American Psychologist, 74(1), 63-75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/amp0000392
Ayo, Yvonne (2017) Ways in which the cultural identities of mixed heritage individuals are maintained in mixed ethnicity stepfamilies. DSysPsych thesis, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. Full text available
Baima, T., Sude, M. E. ( 2020). What White Mental Health Professionals Need to Understand About Whiteness: A Delphi Study. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 46, 62– 80. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12385
Bhui K, et al . Interventions designed toimprove therapeutic communications between black and minority ethnic people and professionalsworking in psychiatric services: a systematic review of the evidence for their effectiveness. HealthTechnol Assess 2015; 19 (31)
Bond, S. (2003) Exclusion of black boys of African heritage in the British education system Can systemic consultations make a difference? Systemic psychotherapy doctoral thesis. Tavistock Library. [contact]
Burck, C. (2004) Living in several languages: Implications for therapy, Journal of Family Therapy, 26(4), pp. 314–339. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6427.2004.00287.x.
Burton, L.M., Bonilla-Silva, E., Ray, V., Buckelew, R. and Hordge Freeman, E. (2010) Critical race theories, Colorism, and the decade’s research on families of color, Journal of Marriage and Family, 72(3), pp. 440–459. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2010.00712.x.
Cadenhead, R.A. & Fellin, L.C. (2023) Cultural reflexivity and the referral problem: A discourse analysis of three initial sessions of intercultural couple therapy. Journal of Family Therapy, 45, 348– 380. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6427.12429
Carberry, K. & Brooks-Gordon, B. (2020), “Black Therapists – White Families, Therapists’ Perceptions of Cultural Competence in Clinical Practice”, in R. Majors, K. Carberry & T.S. Ransaw (Eds.) The International Handbook of Black Community Mental Health, Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 379-404. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83909-964-920201025
Carberry, K., Lafleur, J.G. & Jean-Claude, G. (2020), “Systemic Family Therapy with Transgenerational Communities in Haiti and the Dominican Republic”, in R. Majors, K. Carberry & T.S. Ransaw (Eds.) The International Handbook of Black Community Mental Health, Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 527-555. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83909-964-920201033
Collins, J. (2022) Welcome to the Motherland. An exploration into how experience is storied through generations of African Caribbean immigrants. Journal of Family Therapy, 44(1), 109– 123. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6427.12383
Cottrell-Boyce, J. (2021) “Addressing White privilege in family therapy: A discourse analysis”. Journal of Family Therapy, 00: 1– 15. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6427.12363
Daire, A. P., Carlson, R. G., & Pointer, A. (2023). Emancipatory approaches in couples’ intervention research. Family Process, 00, 1– 16. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12890
Das, S. (2020), Multilingual matrix: exploring the process of language switching by family therapists working with multilingual families. Journal of Family Therapy, 42: 39-53. doi:10.1111/1467-6427.12249
Dwanyen, L., Holtrop, K., & Parra-Cardona, R. (2022). Reducing mental health disparities among racially and ethnically diverse populations: A review of couple and family intervention research methods (2010–2019). Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 48, 346– 365. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12573
Edge, D., Degnan, A. & Rafiq, S. (2020), “Researching African-Caribbean Mental Health in the UK: An Assets-based Approach to Developing Psychosocial Interventions for Schizophrenia and Related Psychoses”, Majors, R., Carberry, K. and Ransaw, T.S. (Ed.) The International Handbook of Black Community Mental Health, Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 455-469. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83909-964-920201029
Elias-Juarez, M.A. and Knudson-Martin, C. (2016) Cultural Attunement in therapy with Mexican-Heritage couples: A grounded theory analysis of client and therapist experience, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, doi: 10.1111/jmft.12183.
Erolin, K. S. and Wieling, E. (2020). The Experiences of Couple/Marriage and Family Therapists of color:A Survey Analysis. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 00, 1‐ 18. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12456
Gabb, J. and Singh, R. (2014) Reflections on the challenges of understanding racial, cultural and sexual differences in couple relationship research, Journal of Family Therapy, 37(2), pp. 210–227. doi: 10.1111/1467-6427.12044.
Gunaratnam, Y. (2003) Researching ‘race’ and ethnicity: Methods, knowledge and power. London: Sage Publications.
Guregard, S. (2009) Open dialogue across cultures. Therapeutic engagement with refugee families. Systemic psychotherapy doctoral thesis. Tavistock Library. [contact]
Hardy, K. V. (2013). Healing the hidden wounds of racial trauma. Reclaiming Children and Youth, 22(1), 24–28.
Hawkins, M., Johnson, D., Vargas, N., Peschio, J., Familiant, N., Ogurtsova, O., Graf, M. D. C., Perez Torres, S., Santacruz Salas, E., Mkandawire-Valhmu, L., Kako, P., Florsheim, P., Cho, Y., & Weinhardt, L. (2024). The triality of roles for the trilingual researcher: Processes from a community-engaged qualitative cross-language health study. Qualitative Research, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14687941241234276
Kelly, S., & Kellman, T. (2021). “Don’t you care about the well-being of your race?”: African American couples discuss racial differences involving criticisms of other Black people. Family Process, 00, 1– 16. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12690
Lee, A. T., Chin, P., Nambiar, A., & Hill Haskins, N. (2023). Addressing intergenerational trauma in Black families: Trauma-informed socioculturally attuned family therapy. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 1– 16. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12632
Lee, E., Tsang, A. K. T., Bogo, M., Wilson, G., Johnstone, M. and Herschman, J. (2018), Joining revisited in family therapy: discourse analysis of cross-cultural encounters between a therapist and an immigrant family. Journal of Family Therapy, 40: 148–179. doi:10.1111/1467-6427.12148
McGoldrick, M., Hines, P. M., Garcia Preto, N., & Petry, S. (2021). Reflections on our efforts to help mental health agencies become more “culturally competent”. Family Process, 60, 1016– 1032. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12704
McKenzie-Mavinga, I. (2020), “Engaging with Racialized Process in Clinical Supervision: Political or Personal”, in R. Majors, K. Carberry & T.S. Ransaw (Eds.) The International Handbook of Black Community Mental Health, Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 557-568. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83909-964-920201034
Mitchell, E. A., & Gordon, K. C. (2023). A special section: Recruiting and retaining couples from underrepresented backgrounds in intervention research. Family Process, 00, e12908. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12908
Nightingale, M., Jones, S.C.T., & Smith, S.D. (2019). Black American Couples’ Perceptions of the Significance of Race and Racial Conversations in Therapy: A Qualitative Study. Journal of Black Sexuality and Relationships 6(2), 37-57. doi:10.1353/bsr.2019.0020.
Pakes, K. and Roy-Chowdhury, S. (2007) Culturally sensitive therapy? Examining the practice of cross-cultural family therapy, Journal of Family Therapy, 29(3), pp. 267–283. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6427.2007.00386.x.
Persuad, Kamala Jeanette (2017) In the margins: Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic women’s narratives of recovering from an eating disorder. DSysPsych thesis, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. Full text available
Pfautsch, B., Ochs, M., Lim, B., & Falicov, C. Exploring local aspects for a culturally and contextually adapted family therapy training in Cambodia. Family Process.
Pouesi, F. & Dewerse, R. (2024) Black Rain: a kaupapa Māori (a Māori approach) to addressing family violence and intergenerational trauma. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 45, 23–30. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/anzf.1556
Reynolds J.E. (2017) Addressing Racial Trauma in Therapy with Ethnic-Minority Clients. In: Lebow J., Chambers A., Breunlin D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15877-8_931-1
Robinson, D. & Singh, R. (2020), “Forced Marriage as a Representation of a Belief System in the UK and its Psychological Impact on Well-being”,in R. Majors, K. Carberry & T.S. Ransaw (Eds.) The International Handbook of Black Community Mental Health, Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 505-525. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83909-964-920201032
Rockowitz S, Bayoumi R, Parr N, Awad A, Altawil M and Elmusharaf K (2024) Fostering cultural resilience: assessing the success of a locally engaged and adapted mental health intervention in Gaza. Front. Public Health 12:1390211.
Rose, F.G. & Leiba, T. (2020), “Mental Health/Illness Revisited in People of African-Caribbean Heritage in Britain”, in R. Majors, K. Carberry & T.S. Ransaw (Eds.) The International Handbook of Black Community Mental Health, Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 441-454. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83909-964-920201028
Roy-Chowdhury, S. & Clarke, G. (2022) Editors. Impacts of racism and systemic responses. Special Issue of Journal of Family Therapy. Vol44. 1.
Runneymede CERD report. England Civil Society Submission to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. (2021) https://www.runnymedetrust.org/uploads/CERD/Runnymede%20CERD%20report%20v3.pdf
Ruthann C. Hewett, Nadya R. Chavies, Viena M. Murillo Paredes, Shannon Carnahan, Sade M. Prithwie, and Tracy L. Robinson-Wood (2023) A Framework for Conceptualizing Black Trans Youth Suicide: Combining the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide With Intersectionality Theory. Journal of Systemic Therapies 2023 42:4, 42-59
Sametband, I. and Strong, T. (2018), Immigrant family members negotiating preferred cultural identities in family therapy conversations: a discursive analysis. Journal of Family Therapy, 40: 201–223. doi:10.1111/1467-6427.12164
Samuels, G.M. (2010) Building kinship and community: Relational processes of Bicultural identity among adult Multiracial adoptees, Family Process, 49(1), pp. 26–42. doi: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2010.01306.x.
Sercu, Lies (2023) Psychotherapy in a shared foreign language. Exploration of psychotherapists’ perceptions of multipleness in the therapeutic interaction,European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling,25:4,369-387,DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2023.2277435
Singh, R. (2008) The process of family talk across culture. Systemic psychotherapy doctoral thesis. Tavistock Library. [contact]
Solheim, C., Zaid, S. and Ballard, J. (2015) Ambiguous loss experienced by transnational Mexican immigrant families, Family Process, 55(2), pp. 338–353. doi: 10.1111/famp.12130.
Terol, A. K., Meadan, H., Gómez, L. R., & Magaña, S. (2024). Cultural adaptation of an intervention for caregivers of young autistic children: Community members’ perspectives. Family Process, 00, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12999
Wallis, J. and Singh, R. (2014), Constructions and enactments of whiteness. J. Fam. Ther., 36: 39-64. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6427.2012.00602.x
Yon, K., Malik, R., Mandin, P. and Midgley, N. (2018), Challenging core cultural beliefs and maintaining the therapeutic alliance: a qualitative study. Journal of Family Therapy, 40: 180–200. doi:10.1111/1467-6427.12158
Young, C., & Mooney, S. (2024). Breaking the ‘culture of silence’: exploring therapist perspectives of culturally sensitive systemic psychotherapy in contested sociopolitical contexts – a Northern Ireland case study. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 00, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1002/anzf.1599
Reflexivity
Gabb, J. and Singh, R. (2014) Reflections on the challenges of understanding racial, cultural and sexual differences in couple relationship research, Journal of Family Therapy, 37(2), pp. 210–227. doi: 10.1111/1467-6427.12044.
Givropoulou, D. and Tseliou, E. (2020), Developing Reflexivity through Group Processes in Psychotherapy Training: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Systemic Family Therapy Trainees’ Experience. Family Process doi:10.1111/famp.12600
Neden, J. (2012) Reflexivity Dialogues: An inquiry into how reflexivity is constructed in family therapy education. Systemic psychotherapy doctoral thesis. Northumbria University Library.
Nelson, R. (2020). Questioning identities/shifting identities: the impact of researching sex and gender on a researcher’s LGBT+ identity. Qualitative Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794120914522
Simon, G. and Chard, A. (eds.) (2014) Systemic inquiry: Innovations in Reflexive practice research. United Kingdom: Everything is Connected Press.
Wrate, R. and Forbat, L. (2008) Introducing research methods and reflexivity into family therapy training, Journal of Family Therapy, 30(4), pp. 517–528. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6427.2008.00434.x.
Wren, B. (2004) Editorial: Research Reflexivity, Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 9(4), pp. 475–478. doi: 10.1177/1359104504046154.
Refugees
Björn, G.J., Gustafsson, P.A., Sydsjö, G. and Berterö, C. (2013) Family therapy sessions with refugee families; a qualitative study, Conflict and Health, 7(1), p. 7. doi: 10.1186/1752-1505-7-7.
Draper, A., Marcellino, E. & Ogbonnaya, C. (2022) Narrative therapy and continuing bonds enquiry with refugees and asylum seekers: Bridging the past and the future. Journal of Family Therapy, 00: 1– 15. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6427.12401
Eltanamly, H., Leijten, P., van Rooij, F., & Overbeek, G. (2021). Parenting in times of refuge: A qualitative investigation. Family Process, 00, 1– 16. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12717
van Es, C. M., Boelen, P. A., M., te Brake, H., & Mooren, T. (2021). Family Empowerment (FAME): A feasibility trial of preventive multifamily groups for asylum seeker families in the Netherlands. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 00, 1– 18. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12539
Guregård, S. (2009) Open Dialogue Across Cultures. Establishing a Therapeutic Relationship with the Refugee Family. Systemic psychotherapy doctoral thesis. Tavistock Library.
Guregard, S., & Seikkula, J. (2013). Establishing therapeutic dialogue with refugee families. Contemporary Family Therapy, 2, 1 – 17.
Kohli, R.K.S. (2006) The sound of silence: Listening to what unaccompanied asylum-seeking children say and do not say, British Journal of Social Work, 36(5), pp. 707–721. doi: 10.1093/bjsw/bch305.
Shahnavaz, S. (2014) Trauma of refugees and the impact on couple and family relationships. Systemic psychotherapy doctoral thesis. Tavistock Library. [contact]
Slobodin, O. and de Jong, J.T.V.M. (2015) Family interventions in traumatized immigrants and refugees: A systematic review, Transcultural Psychiatry, 52(6), pp. 723–742. doi: 10.1177/1363461515588855.
Sveaass, N. and Reichelt, S. (2001) Engaging refugee families in therapy: Exploring the benefits of including referring professionals in First family Interviews, Family Process, 40(1), pp. 95–114. doi: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2001.4010100095.x.
Woodcock, J. (2007) The Effects of Trauma Work on Psychotherapists, and their Need for Supervision. Systemic psychotherapy doctoral thesis. Birkbeck College (University of London) Library & Institute of Family Therapy Library.
Resilience
Collette, A & Ungar, M. (2020) Resilience of individuals, families, communities and environments: Mutually dependent protective processes and complex systems. in M. Ochs, M. Borsca & J. Schweitzer (eds) Systemic Research in Individual, Couple and Family Therapy and Counseling. Springer.
Ungar, M. & Theron, L. (2019) Resilience and mental health: how multisystemic processes contribute to positive outcomes. Lancet Psychiatry 2020 May;7(5):441-448. doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(19)30434-1. Epub 2019 Dec 2.
Ungar, M. (2018). Systemic resilience: principles and processes for a science of change in contexts of adversity. Ecology and Society 23(4):34.
https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10385-230434
Ungar, M. (2016). Varied patterns of family resilience in challenging contexts. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 42, 19– 31. doi: 10.1111/jmft.12124
Ungar, M. (2011). The social ecology of resilience: Addressing contextual and cultural ambiguity of a nascent construct. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 81, 1–17.
Ungar, M. (2008). Resilience across cultures. British Journal of Social Work, 38, 218–235.
Self-harm
Butler, C., Joiner, R., Bradley, R., Bowles, M., Bowes, A., Russell, C., & Roberts, V. (2019). https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/publications/self-harm-prevalence-and-ideation-in-a-community-sample-of-cis-trSelf-harm prevalence and ideation in a community sample of cis, trans and other youth. International Journal of Transgenderism, 20(4), 447-458. https://doi.org/10.1080/15532739.2019.1614130
Haque, R. (2012) An evaluation of a school-based intervention with Bangladeshi girls who self-harm. Doctoral thesis.
Separation and divorce
Amato, P.R. (2010) Research on divorce: Continuing trends and new developments, Journal of Marriage and Family, 72(3), pp. 650–666. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2010.00723.x.
Gahan, L. (2019) Separation and post-separation parenting within lesbian and gay co-parenting (guild parented) families. Australia and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy. 40(1) pp. 98-113
Mooney, A., Oliver, C. and Smith, M. (2009) Impact of Family Breakdown on Children’s Well-Being: Evidence Review. Thomas Coram Research Unit: Institute of Education, University of London.
Sexual orientation
Diamond, G.M. and Shpigel, M.S. (2014) Attachment-based family therapy for lesbian and gay young adults and their persistently nonaccepting parents, Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 45(4), pp. 258–268. doi: 10.1037/a0035394.
Gonzalez, K.A., Rostosky, S.S., Odom, R.D. and Riggle, E.D.B. (2012) The positive aspects of being the parent of an LGBTQ child, Family Process, 52(2), pp. 325–337. doi: 10.1111/famp.12009.
Hartwell, E.E., Serovich, J.M., Grafsky, E.L. and Kerr, Z.Y. (2012) Coming out of the dark: Content analysis of articles pertaining to gay, Lesbian, and bisexual issues in couple and family therapy journals, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 38, pp. 227–243. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2011.00274.x.
Istar Lev, A. (2010) How queer!-the development of gender identity and sexual orientation in LGBTQ-Headed families, Family Process, 49(3), pp. 268–290. doi: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2010.01323.x.
Knoble, N.B. and Linville, D. (2010) Outness and relationship satisfaction in same-gender couples, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 38(2), pp. 330–339. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2010.00206.x.
Malley, M. and Tasker, F. (2004) Significant and other: Systemic family therapists on lesbians and gay men, Journal of Family Therapy, 26(2), pp. 193–212. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6427.2004.00278.x.
Perlesz, A., Brown, R., Lindsay, J., McNair, R., de Vaus, D. and Pitts, M. (2006) Family in transition: Parents, children and grandparents in lesbian families give meaning to “doing family”, Journal of Family Therapy, 28(2), pp. 175–199. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6427.2006.00345.x.
Smart, C. (2007) Same sex couples and marriage: Negotiating relational landscapes with families and friends, The Sociological Review, 55(4), pp. 671–686. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-954x.2007.00747.x.
Tawodzera, C.A. (2007) Study of women’s experiences of their own sexual identity development. Systemic psychotherapy doctoral thesis. Tavistock Library. [contact]
Sexuality / working with sexual issues
Hertlein, K.M., Weeks, G.R. and Gambescia, N. (eds.) (2015) Systemic sex therapy. London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Markovic, D. (2007) Systemic Therapists’ Resources for Dealing with Sexual Issues in Clinical Work. Systemic psychotherapy doctoral thesis. Birkbeck College (University of London) Library & Institute of Family Therapy Library.
Markovic, D. (2007) Working with sexual issues in systemic therapy, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 28(04), pp. 200–209. doi: 10.1375/anft.28.4.200.
Markovic, D. (2014) Systemic Family Therapists’ Narratives on Sexual Attraction in their Clinical Practice. A Narrative Analysis, in Luca, M. (ed.) Sexual attraction in therapy: Clinical perspectives on moving beyond the taboo – A guide for training and practice. Malden, MA: John Wiley & Sons.
Social justice
Afuape, T. (2020), Radical systemic intervention that goes to the root: working alongside inner‐city school children, linking trauma with oppression and consciousness with action. Journal of Family Therapy. doi:10.1111/1467-6427.12304
Ali, A & Champion, N. (2021) More harm than good: a super-complaint on the harms caused by ‘suspicion-less’ stop and searches and inadequate scrutiny of stop and search powers. London. Criminal Justice Alliance.
D’Arrigo‐Patrick, J., Hoff, C., Knudson‐Martin, C. and Tuttle, A. (2017), Navigating Critical Theory and Postmodernism: Social Justice and Therapist Power in Family Therapy. Family Process, 56: 574-588. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12236
Dwanyen, L., Holtrop, K., & Parra-Cardona, R. (2022). Reducing mental health disparities among racially and ethnically diverse populations: A review of couple and family intervention research methods (2010–2019). Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 48, 346– 365. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12573
Fraenkel, P. (2020). Collaborative family program development: Research methods that investigate and foster resilience and engagement in marginalised communities. in Ochs, M., Borcsa, M. & Schweitzer, J. (2020) Systemic Research in Individual, Couple and Family Therapy and Counseling. Springer.
Giacaman, R. (2018) Reframing public health in wartime: From the biomedical model to the ‘wounds inside’. Journal of Palestinian Studies, 47(2) pp 9-27.
Helbich, M & Jabr, S. (2022) A call for social justice and a human rights approach with regard to mental health in the occupied Palestinian Territories. Health and Human Rights Journal.
Reynolds, V. (2020) Trauma and resistance: ‘hang time’ and other innovative responses to oppression, violence and suffering. Journal of Family Therapy.
Reynolds, V., “Bahman”, Hammoud-Beckett, S., Sanders, C.J. & Haworth, G. (2014) Poetic Resistance: Bahman’s resistance to torture and political vioilence. The International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work. No 2. 1-15.
Reynolds, V. (2010) Doing justice as a path to sustainability in community work. Doctoral thesis. Taos Institute & Tilburg University.
Salter, L. (2017) Research as resistance and solidarity: ‘spinning transformative yarns’ – a narrative inquiry with women going on from abuse and oppression. Journal of Family Therapy. 39. 3: 366-385
Watson, M. (2019). Social Justice and Race in the United States: Key Issues and Challenges for Couple and Family Therapy. Family Process, 58(1), 23-33.
Young, C., & Mooney, S. (2024). Breaking the ‘culture of silence’: exploring therapist perspectives of culturally sensitive systemic psychotherapy in contested sociopolitical contexts – a Northern Ireland case study. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 45, 300–324. https://doi.org/10.1002/anzf.1599
Spirituality and religion
Balmer, T. D., Van Asselt, K. W., Walker, C. and Kennedy, B. R. (2012) A phenomenological study of spiritual values in secular‐based marriage and family therapists. Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health, 14(4): 242– 258. https://doi.org/10.1080/19349637.2012.730466
Carlson, T., McGeorge, C. and Toomey, R. (2014) Establishing the validity of the spirituality in clinical training scale: measuring the level of integration of spirituality and religion in family therapy training. Contemporary Family Therapy: An International Journal, 36(2): 310– 325. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10591‐013‐9278‐y
Carlson, T., McGeorge, C. and Anderson, A. (2011) The Importance of spirituality in couple and family therapy: a comparative study of therapists’ and educators’ beliefs. Contemporary Family Therapy: An International Journal, 33(1): 3– 16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10591‐010‐9136‐0
Erickson, M.J., Hecker, L., Kirkpatrick, D., Killmer, M. and James, E. (2002) Clients’ perceptions of marriage and family therapists addressing the religious and spiritual aspects of clients’ lives, Journal of Family Psychotherapy, 13(1-2), pp. 109–125. doi: 10.1300/j085v13n01_06.
Holmberg, Å., Jensen, P. and Vetere, A. (2021), Spirituality – a forgotten dimension? Developing spiritual literacy in family therapy practice. Journal of Family Therapy, 43: 78-95
Holmberg, Å., Jensen, P. and Vetere, A. (2020), Spirituality – a forgotten dimension? Developing spiritual literacy in family therapy practice. Journal of Family Therapy. doi:10.1111/1467-6427.12298
Holmberg, Å., Jensen, P. and Ulland, D (2017) To make room or not to make room: clients’ narratives about exclusion and inclusion of spirituality in family therapy practice. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 38(1): 15– 26. https://doi.org/10.1002/anzf.1198
Khan, N. (2021) A qualitative exploration of systemic training and practice for Muslim community leaders as part of an innovative project in an inner-city area. Journal of Family Therapy, 00, 1– 18. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6427.12378
McNeil, S., Pavkov, T., Hecker, L. and Killmer, J. (2012) Marriage and family therapy graduate students’ satisfaction with training regarding religion and spirituality. Contemporary Family Therapy: An International Journal, 34(4): 468– 480. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10591‐012‐9205‐7
Prest, L.A., Russel, R. and D’Souza, H. (1999) Spirituality and religion in training, practice and personal development, Journal of Family Therapy, 21(1), pp. 60–77. doi: 10.1111/1467-6427.00104.
Step-families
Leake, V.S. (2007) Personal, familial, and systemic factors associated with family belonging for stepfamily adolescents, Journal of Divorce & Remarriage, 47(1-2), pp. 135–155. doi: 10.1300/j087v47n01_08.
Sanassy, V. (2012) What are stepfathers’ experiences of their position/role within the family? Masters thesis. Tavistock and University of East London.
Sanner, C., Ganong, L., Coleman, M., & Berkley, S. (2022). Effective parenting in stepfamilies: Empirical evidence of what works. Family Relations, 1– 16. https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.12703
Stratton, P. (2003) Causal attributions during therapy II: Reconstituted families and parental blaming, Journal of Family Therapy, 25(2), pp. 161–180. doi: 10.1111/1467-6427.00242.
Substance abuse
Esteban, J., Suárez-Relinque, C., & Jiménez, T. I. (2022). Effects of family therapy for substance abuse: A systematic review of recent research. Family Process, 00, 1– 25. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12841
Hogue, A., Schumm, J. A., MacLean, A., & Bobek, M. (2021). Couple and family therapy for substance use disorders: Evidence-based update 2010–2019. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 00, 1– 26. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12546
Supervision and training
Anderson, S.A., Schlossberg, M. and Rigazio-DiGilio, S. (2000) Family therapy trainees’ evaluations of their best and worst supervision experiences, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 26(1), pp. 79–91. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2000.tb00278.x.
Ayo, Y. (2010) Addressing issues of race and culture in supervision, in Burck, C. and Daniel, G. (eds.) Mirrors and reflections: Processes of systemic supervision. London: Karnac Books.
Bartle-Haring, S., Silverthorn, B.C., Meyer, K. and Toviessi, P. (2009) Does live supervision make a difference? A multilevel analysis, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 35(4), pp. 406–414. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2009.00124.x.
Bostock, L., Patrizo, L., Godfrey, T. & Forrester, D. (2022) Why does systemic supervision support practitioners’ practice more effectively with children and families? Children and Youth Services Review, 142, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2022.106652
Butler, C., Rivett, M., Hallack, Z. and Harris, M. (2021), Systemic supervision, the last frontier: Towards a scale that measures systemic supervision. Journal of Family Therapy. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6427.12342
Givropoulou, D. & Tseliou, E. (2017) Moving Between Dialogic Reflexive Processes In Systemic Family Therapy Training: An Interpretative Phenomenological Study of Trainees’ Experience. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy. Version of Record online: 12 APR 2017 | DOI: 10.1111/jmft.12237
Hameed, M., McIntosh, J., McLean, S., Vuong, A., Welsh, E. & O’Hanlon, B. (2023) Workforce training in family therapy and systemic practices: An evaluation framework and case study. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 00, 1– 13. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/anzf.1536
Khan, N. (2021) A qualitative exploration of systemic training and practice for Muslim community leaders as part of an innovative project in an inner-city area. Journal of Family Therapy, 00, 1– 18. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6427.12378
McCandless, R. (2008) Developing Reflexive Abilities in Systemic Training: The Experience of Supervisors. Systemic psychotherapy doctoral thesis. Birkbeck College (University of London) Library & Institute of Family Therapy Library.
McKenzie-Mavinga, I. (2020), “Engaging with Racialized Process in Clinical Supervision: Political or Personal”, in R. Majors, K. Carberry & T.S. Ransaw (Eds.) The International Handbook of Black Community Mental Health, Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 557-568. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83909-964-920201034
Mosley, M. A., Parker, M. L., & Call, T (2022) MFT supervision in the era of telehealth: Attachment, tasks, and ethical considerations. Journal of Family Therapy, 44: 224– 238. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6427.12352
Murphy, M.J. and Wright, D.W. (2005) Supervisees’ perspectives of power use in supervision, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 31(3), pp. 283–295. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2005.tb01569.x
Nanouri K, Tseliou E, Abakoumkin G, Bozatzis N. ‘Who decided this?’: Negotiating epistemic and deontic authority in systemic family therapy training. Discourse Studies. January 2022. doi:10.1177/14614456211037450
Northey, W. F., Gehart, D. R. ( 2020). The Condensed MFT Core Competencies: A Streamlined Approach for Measuring Student and Supervisee Learning Using the MFT Core Competencies. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 46, 42– 61. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12386
Parker, C., Smithson, J., Limond, J., Sherbersky, H. and Butler, C. (2021), Student and supervisor experiences of the Systemic Practice Scale (SPS): a discourse analysis. Journal of Family Therapy. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6427.12318
Stratton, P., Reibstein, J., Lask, J., Singh, R. and Asen, E. (2011) Competences and occupational standards for systemic family and couples therapy, Journal of Family Therapy, 33(2), pp. 123–143. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6427.2011.00544.x.
Weeks, M. (2009) An Exploration of Gender within Systemic Supervision. Systemic psychotherapy doctoral thesis. Birkbeck College (University of London) Library & Institute of Family Therapy Library.
Woodcock, J. (2007) The Effects of Trauma Work on Psychotherapists, and their Need for Supervision. Systemic psychotherapy doctoral thesis. Birkbeck College (University of London) Library & Institute of Family Therapy Library.
Ziminski, J. (2010) Competition, cosiness, collaboration? Peer relationships in family therapy teams, in Burck, C. and Daniel, G. (eds.) Mirrors and reflections: Processes of systemic supervision. London: Karnac Books, .
Therapeutic alliance and therapeutic relationship
Alvarez, I., Herrero, M., Martínez-Pampliega, A. and Escudero, V. (2021), Measuring Perceptions of the Therapeutic Alliance in Individual, Family, and Group Therapy from a Systemic Perspective: Structural Validity of the SOFTA-s. Fam. Proc.. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12565
Escudero, V., Friedlander, M. L., Kivlighan, D. M., Abascal, A., & Orlowski, E. (2021). Toward a broader understanding of split alliances in family therapy: Adding the therapist to the mix. Family Process, 00, 1– 16. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12718
Escudero, V., Friedlander, M.L., Varela, N. and Abascal, A. (2008), Observing the therapeutic alliance in family therapy: associations with participants’ perceptions and therapeutic outcomes. Journal of Family Therapy, 30: 194-214. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6427.2008.00425.x
Norcross, J.C. & Lambert M.J. (2018) Psychotherapy relationships that work. III. Psychotherapy. Vol 55.No 4: pp 303-315
Rober, P., Van Tricht, K. and Sundet, R. (2021), ‘One step up, but not there yet’: using client feedback to optimise the therapeutic alliance in family therapy. Journal of Family Therapy, 43: 46-63. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6427.12292
Sundet, R. (2017) Feedback as a means to enhance client-therapist interaction in therapy. In T. Tilden and B. Wampold (eds.) Routing outcome monitoring in couple and family therapy (pp. 121–142). Cham (Switzerland): Springer.
Therapist experiences
Deslypere, E. and Rober, P. (2020), Family Secrecy in Family Therapy Practice: An Explorative Focus Group Study. Family Process, 59: 52-65. doi:10.1111/famp.12409
Erolin, K. S. and Wieling, E. (2020). The Experiences of Couple/Marriage and Family Therapists of color:A Survey Analysis. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 00, 1‐ 18. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12456
Hurst, A. (2008) To disclose or not to disclose: that is the systemic therapist’s question. A framework for therapist self-disclosure in systemic psychotherapy. Systemic psychotherapy doctoral thesis. Tavistock Library. [contact]
Jensen, P. (2007) Personal professional development in the training of family therapists. Systemic psychotherapy doctoral thesis. Tavistock Library. [contact]
Schubert, S., Rhodes, P. and Buus, N. (2020), Transformation of professional identity: an exploration of psychologists and psychiatrists implementing Open Dialogue. Journal of Family Therapy. doi:10.1111/1467-6427.12289
Yıldızhan, C., Kafescioğlu, N., Zeytinoğlu-Saydam, S., Erdem, G., Söylemez, Y., & Yumbul, Ç. (2024). Emotion regulation in emotionally focused therapists working with high-conflict couples. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 1–27. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12725
Trauma
Afuape, T. (2020), Radical systemic intervention that goes to the root: working alongside inner‐city school children, linking trauma with oppression and consciousness with action. Journal of Family Therapy. doi:10.1111/1467-6427.12304
Boyer, W. (2019) ‘Trauma-Focused Family Therapy With Children and Their Families’, The Family Journal, 27(2), pp. 175–182. doi: 10.1177/1066480719832503.
Cobbett, S. (2022) Systemic and family therapy with socially disadvantaged children and young people with complex trauma. Journal of Family Therapy, 44: 205– 223. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6427.12353
Goldsmith, R.E., Martin, C.G. and Smith, C.P. (2014) Systemic trauma, Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 15(2), pp. 117–132. doi: 10.1080/15299732.2014.871666.
Haene, L., Adriaenssens, P., Deruddere, N., & Rober, P. (2020). Trauma Narration in Family Therapy with Refugees: Working between Silence and Story in Supporting a Meaningful Engagement with Family Trauma History. In L. De Haene & C. Rousseau (Eds.), Working with Refugee Families: Trauma and Exile in Family Relationships (pp. 148-171). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Doi:10.1017/9781108602105.011
Hernández, P., Engstrom, D. and Gangsei, D. (2010) Exploring the impact of trauma on therapists: Vicarious resilience and related concepts in training, Journal of Systemic Therapies, 29(1), pp. 67–83. doi: 10.1521/jsyt.2010.29.1.67.
McWey, L. M. (2021). Systemic interventions for traumatic event exposure: A 2010–2019 decade review. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 00, 1– 27. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12547
Pouesi, F. & Dewerse, R. (2024) Black Rain: a kaupapa Māori (a Māori approach) to addressing family violence and intergenerational trauma. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 45, 23–30. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/anzf.1556
Smith, G. (2012) Working with trauma: A systemic approach. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Ungar, M. 2018. Systemic resilience: principles and processes for a science of change in contexts of adversity. Ecology and Society 23(4):34. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10385-230434
Ungar, M. (2010), Families as Navigators and Negotiators: Facilitating Culturally and Contextually Specific Expressions of Resilience. Family Process, 49: 421-435. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1545-5300.2010.01331.x
Woodcock, J. (2007) The Effects of Trauma Work on Psychotherapists, and their Need for Supervision. Systemic psychotherapy doctoral thesis. Birkbeck College (University of London) Library & Institute of Family Therapy Library.