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{"title":"The influence of family-based social assistance programs and parenting on child development: A conceptual framework for research with U.S. families in poverty","authors":"Kimberly R. Osborne","doi":"10.1111/jftr.12560","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jftr.12560","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Nearly three decades since the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, federal cash assistance to families in poverty in the United States has entered political discourse once more with the Biden Administration's introduction of the American Families Plan. At the heart of this discussion are theories of change that derive from the family and developmental sciences. As a result, scientists in these fields have a duty to understand the history of the last reform and the consequences it has since had for children in poverty. In this paper, I review the history of perspectives toward government social assistance programs, as well as extant research demonstrating the mechanisms through which maternal employment and federal cash assistance impact child wellbeing. Lastly, I propose a conceptual framework for understanding the influence of family-based social assistance programs and parenting on child wellbeing to guide future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":47446,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Theory & Review","volume":"16 2","pages":"255-271"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140551942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The importance of romantic relationships in preventing suicide","authors":"Sarah P. Carter,&nbsp;Erin Cobb,&nbsp;Laura A. Novak,&nbsp;Eric Ekman,&nbsp;Andrew Ton,&nbsp;Jessica M. LaCroix,&nbsp;Marjan Ghahramanlou-Holloway","doi":"10.1111/jftr.12559","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jftr.12559","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Romantic relationships can both attenuate and exacerbate suicide risk. Suicide prevention strategies in the United States have emphasized the importance of healthy connections with others; however, suicide prevention efforts overwhelmingly continue to focus on individual-level interventions. This presents a missed opportunity to prevent suicide through a focus on romantic relationship factors that are strongly associated with suicidal thoughts and behaviors. To identify underutilized or new avenues for improving suicide prevention, the current article aims to (a) provide an overview of the literature on romantic relationship functioning and suicide risk in adults to elucidate potential prevention targets, and (b) use a public health framework to highlight evidence-based and emerging avenues to prevent suicide by targeting relevant relationship factors.</p>","PeriodicalId":47446,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Theory & Review","volume":"16 2","pages":"352-373"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140317248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Testimonio as a methodology in the study of sexual and intimate partner violence","authors":"Veronica R. Barrios,&nbsp;Autumn Bermea,&nbsp;Ellison Luthy,&nbsp;Fan Xu","doi":"10.1111/jftr.12558","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jftr.12558","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Sexual and intimate partner violence (SIV) continues to be a public health crisis, particularly among girls and women. Traditional and critical qualitative methodologies are often used to study SIV. This paper offers another methodology not traditionally used in family science, <i>testimonio</i>, as a critical, qualitative option. <i>Testimonio</i> is a methodology rooted in Indigenous, Latinx, and Chicano/a <i>feminista</i> studies, deployed in various fields, that centers the stories of marginalized members of society as they are rooted in systemic inequalities, including racism, (cis)sexism, and heteronormativity. A scoping review of the use of <i>testimonio</i> in family science and violence research was conducted and yielded minimal research. Given the dearth of research found through the review, recommendations for using <i>testimonio</i> in family science SIV research are offered along with examples from the authors' research.</p>","PeriodicalId":47446,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Theory & Review","volume":"16 2","pages":"235-254"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jftr.12558","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140142152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Celebrating the “good-enough families”: Family challenges and resilience during global adversity","authors":"Carla Crespo,&nbsp;Ana Paula Relvas","doi":"10.1111/jftr.12557","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jftr.12557","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Families have historically been and remain the most significant units of human existence (Montefiore, &lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;). The recognition of the families' paradoxical position is as old as the beginning of family science. Although families are relational systems potentially providing great joy, support, and security, families are also where significant pain, loss, and trauma can originate from (Lebow, &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;; Walsh, &lt;span&gt;2021&lt;/span&gt;). Family science has reflected this paradox. Historically, following an Hegelian dialectic of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis, family science started by examining the deficits and identifying vulnerability and risk factors (thesis). The thesis was followed by a perspective shift that had scholars looking for the systems' strengths by addressing resources and protective factors (antithesis), and it has now arrived at a more mature and complex outlook, where elements from both traditions are not only acknowledged but also honored (a synthesis in working progress).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;When the pandemic, a major global adverse event, hit, there was little wonder in how both these contrasting visions of family were observed. On the one side, there were stories in the news about family separation and loss (e.g., families of essential workers being split up, older family members in reclusion and dying alone), apprehension about growing conflict and violence, especially towards women and children, and concerns about survival for those who were laid-off or lost their jobs. On the other side, there were stories about families reconnecting with each other, being able to spend more time together (e.g., new fathers at home for a baby's first months) rediscovering the joys of nature walks, board games, and of the slow baking of bread from starter-dough. The fear of families succumbing to the pandemic coexisted with their glorification as a sanctuary in troubled times. Because this split was more evident in messages from mass media, family science was not immune to this polarization (Lebow, &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;). Yet, the field had already evolved greatly and since early on in the pandemic scholars have called for a more nuanced, integrated, and dynamic view of families living through unprecedented adversity (e.g., Walsh, &lt;span&gt;2020&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The will to transcend dichotomous thinking about families opened up an opportunity to revisit Donald Winnicott's concept of “the good enough mother” (Winnicott, &lt;span&gt;1953&lt;/span&gt;, p. 92). Being as generative as a good idea can be, this term from the 1950s seemed to be particularly useful to apply to families in the post-pandemic world. Winnicott (&lt;span&gt;1953&lt;/span&gt;) brilliantly observed that the mother adapted to the needs and growth of the baby and that, with time, it was necessary that she adapted less and less as the baby grew increasingly able to deal with the mother's small failures and tolerate the results of frustration. This attitude can be seen as a first lesson in resilience, as t","PeriodicalId":47446,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Theory & Review","volume":"16 1","pages":"7-16"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jftr.12557","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139967278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Family keyworker as a non-clinical and democratic figure to support hard-to-reach families from an attachment perspective","authors":"Ana Berástegui,&nbsp;Carlos Pitillas","doi":"10.1111/jftr.12556","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jftr.12556","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We express gratitude to both Silvia Lordello and Daniel J. Puhlman for their insightful comments on our paper entitled “The Family Keyworker as a Critical Element for Attachment Resilience in the Face of Adversity” (Berástegui &amp; Pitillas, <span>2024</span>). Lordello's and Puhlman's observations and concerns regarding our application of an attachment lens to the work of family keyworkers (FKWs) provide us with an opportunity to nuance and better explain our proposal, within what we consider a fruitful academic and technical discussion. Discussing these issues in the context of a commented paper is enriching, both to the academic debate and to the field of intervention with families. We sincerely thank Dr. Lordello and Dr. Puhlman for their attentive reading of our work, and hope that our responses to their comments may do justice to the very valuable points that they present.</p><p>Daniel J. Puhlman's commentary, entitled “Supporting and Enhancing Attachment Resilience is Essential for Helping High-Risk Families: But is the Family Keyworker the Best One for the Job?” is premised on the idea that we should carefully consider “who is providing which services, the qualifications and training these professionals receive, and the strategies and interventions they are asked to employ in providing support and assistance” (Puhlman, <span>2024</span>). This consideration is crucial for interventions to be not only efficient but also ethical. He expresses concern that our proposal may risk opening the door to the use of clinical, complex intervention strategies by a broad range of family professionals. If this were the case, he rightly argues that we would face two major problems: (a) the absence of a proper foundation for working within attachment processes by FKWs, and (b) the risks associated with FKWs' use of attachment-oriented strategies. Puhlman elaborates on both concerns, stating that “working through deep and personal traumas” embedded in families' attachment functioning, as well as “helping families repair attachment injuries and wounds” requires deep conversations, time, patience, and advanced clinical training, all of which may be beyond the qualifications of most FKWs. This could push technical boundaries outside their range of tolerance and facilitate ethical dangers regarding both the professionals' scope of practice and the development of reciprocal attachment that may compromise the professional's objectivity and role integrity, potentially leading to harmful results.</p><p>We acknowledge that, from Puhlman's perspective, these concerns are reasonable. However, our translation of attachment resilience processes (Berástegui &amp; Pitillas, <span>2021</span>) into a model of family support by FKWs is never meant to become a therapeutic endeavor, nor is it oriented to facilitate processes of a clinical nature (e.g., repairing attachment wounds within families). We do not intend for our work to be interpreted as an invitation to using ","PeriodicalId":47446,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Theory & Review","volume":"16 1","pages":"139-143"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jftr.12556","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139923154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"FD/FR family: Functional disconnection and reconnection in public safety personnel families","authors":"Hanna Duffy,&nbsp;Megan McElheran,&nbsp;Andrea Stelnicki,&nbsp;Kelly Dean Schwartz","doi":"10.1111/jftr.12555","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jftr.12555","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper addresses the growing recognition of occupational stressors impacting the mental health of public safety personnel (PSP) and their families. While numerous programs support PSP well-being, limited attention is given to family members, who navigate increased worry, social isolation, and the challenge of supporting a psychologically injured spouse. Drawing from the functional disconnection/functional reconnection (FD/FR) framework, this paper introduces FD/FR family—a proactive model tailored to PSP families. Rooted in Stoicism, this innovative adaptation extends the application of FD/FR concepts to benefit not only PSP members but also their families. FD/FR family advocates temporarily setting aside personal reactions and improving emotional processing to enhance communication, flexibility, and mitigate vicarious trauma and mental health deterioration. This paper offers PSP family-specific examples and urges future research to identify essential FD/FR components accepted by both PSP and their families.</p>","PeriodicalId":47446,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Theory & Review","volume":"16 2","pages":"420-430"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jftr.12555","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139840824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Supporting and enhancing attachment resilience is essential for helping high-risk families: But is the family keyworker the best one for the job?","authors":"Daniel J. Puhlman","doi":"10.1111/jftr.12553","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jftr.12553","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47446,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Theory & Review","volume":"16 1","pages":"130-138"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139798824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Romantic relationships and attitudes in Asian emerging adults: Review and critique","authors":"Chengfei Jiao,&nbsp;Celia T. Lee,&nbsp;Qinglan Feng,&nbsp;Frank D. Fincham","doi":"10.1111/jftr.12554","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jftr.12554","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article summarizes and critiques existing literature on the factors that might influence romantic relationships and attitudes among Asian emerging adults (18–29 years old). Forty-one studies were identified. Findings were categorized into two groups based on outcome variables: romantic relationship qualities (e.g., satisfaction; <i>N</i> = 22) and attitudes toward dating and marriage (<i>N</i> = 19). Common predictors of relationship qualities include parenting factors (e.g., parental divorce), culture-specific factors (e.g., filial piety), and psychological factors (e.g., identity status). Furthermore, findings suggest that Asian emerging adults tend to hold more conservative dating attitudes, prioritize parental approval, but also share some similarities in dating attitudes with their Western counterparts. We proposed specific recommendations regarding sample diversity and areas for further investigation in future research. Clinical implications are also discussed that highlight the importance of relationship therapists showing empathy and building therapeutic alliance with Asian emerging adult clients.</p>","PeriodicalId":47446,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Theory & Review","volume":"16 2","pages":"392-419"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139811563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Development of the racial and ethnic discrimination stress model","authors":"Renée E. Wilkins-Clark,&nbsp;Carmen N. Gray,&nbsp;Anthony J. Ferraro","doi":"10.1111/jftr.12550","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jftr.12550","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Family stress models have been used extensively in family science for decades and have demonstrated utility in the examination of familial responses to stressors. Although these models have been applied to research on Black families and researchers have more recently considered the impact of integrated sociocultural context and reconceptualized models accordingly, current models do not fully explain outcomes associated with mundane extreme environmental stress (MEES) and the simultaneous influence of an iterative meaning-making process. To address this gap, we extend the contextual model of family stress, by integrating the MEES concept and propositions from symbolic interactionism, family systems theory, and ecological theory. We introduce the racial and ethnic discrimination stress model (RED-SM), a conceptual framework, to explain how the mundane extreme environment, resources, and socialization messages contribute to a meaning-making process that influences adjustment outcomes for Black individuals. We conclude by offering suggestions for its usage in family science research.</p>","PeriodicalId":47446,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Theory & Review","volume":"16 2","pages":"374-391"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139573478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Facing the heat: A descriptive review of the literature on family and community resilience amidst wildfires and climate change","authors":"Vitória Ferreira,&nbsp;Luciana Sotero,&nbsp;Ana Paula Relvas","doi":"10.1111/jftr.12551","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jftr.12551","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Family and community resilience in the contexts of natural disasters and climate change have earned a place of prominence in the research field. This article provides a descriptive review of the literature published between 1997 and 2023 examining family and community resilience in the context of wildfires, climate change, and sustainability. Ninety-two articles were included and analyzed, with three research questions addressed. Results show family and community resilience as essential to the adaptation process to extreme natural events. Family and community experiences appear to be linked with changes in beliefs, behaviors, and priorities. Findings point to potential connections with sustainability, adaptation and mitigation efforts, and the need for communities to coexist with fire in forest ecosystems. Some gaps in literature are pointed out, including scarcity of data from diverse geographic locations, looking at the family unit perspective, and spanning the entire trajectory of disaster and recovery process.</p>","PeriodicalId":47446,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Theory & Review","volume":"16 1","pages":"53-71"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139518967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}