Family ProcessPub Date : 2025-06-12DOI: 10.1111/famp.70048
Justine Dol, Jennifer A. Parker, Christine T. Chambers, Phillip Joy, Patricia Leahy-Warren, Cindy-Lee Dennis, Marilyn Macdonald, Kristy Hancock
{"title":"Parenting Self-Efficacy Within the First Year Postpartum in Non-Birthing Parents: A Scoping Review","authors":"Justine Dol, Jennifer A. Parker, Christine T. Chambers, Phillip Joy, Patricia Leahy-Warren, Cindy-Lee Dennis, Marilyn Macdonald, Kristy Hancock","doi":"10.1111/famp.70048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.70048","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Parenting self-efficacy is a parent's belief in their ability to execute tasks related to raising children and providing them with care to ensure healthy development. While considerable research has been completed with birthing parents, the breadth of work that has been conducted on non-birthing parents is not known. The objective of this scoping review was to identify and analyze the literature on parenting self-efficacy in non-birthing parents within the first year postpartum. The search was completed on October 28, 2024. All qualitative and quantitative study designs were included. Titles, abstracts, and full text were screened by two reviewers. Overall, 125 studies reported on parenting self-efficacy in non-birthing parents. Over two-thirds (69.6%) of studies were published since 2011, with most being quantitative (91.2%). Only four studies included 2SLGBTQAA+ parents, only one of which reported on parenting self-efficacy differentiated by group. Over half (56.0%) of the studies used the term <i>self-efficacy</i>, followed by <i>competence</i> (28.0%) and <i>confidence</i> (16.0%). The measurement tool that was most used was the Parenting Sense of Competence Scale and the most common co-reported outcomes were depression and social support. In conclusion, while the field of research on parenting self-efficacy in non-birthing parents is growing, there is also a dearth of evidence on 2SLGTBQAA+ parents' parenting self-efficacy.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51396,"journal":{"name":"Family Process","volume":"64 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144273359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Family ProcessPub Date : 2025-06-11DOI: 10.1111/famp.70049
Claire O'Dwyer, Conal Twomey, Brid Davis, John Sharry, Eileen Brosnan, Alan Carr
{"title":"Parents Plus Systemic, Solution-Focused Parent Training Programs: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis","authors":"Claire O'Dwyer, Conal Twomey, Brid Davis, John Sharry, Eileen Brosnan, Alan Carr","doi":"10.1111/famp.70049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.70049","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This systematic review and meta-analysis of Parent Plus (PP) Program evaluation studies aimed to update a previous meta-analysis published in 2017. PP programs are systemic, solution-focused, group-based parent training interventions for the prevention and treatment of a range of child and adolescent problems. Controlled or uncontrolled, randomized or non-randomized trials involving at least 10 cases which evaluated PP programs were included in the review. PsycINFO, PubMed, CINAHL, and ERIC databases were searched from January 2016 to January 2014. Risk of bias was evaluated with RoB2 and ROBINS-I. Since the last meta-analysis, the pool of PP studies has increased by 25%. This updated meta-analysis included 21 studies involving 1179 families. In controlled trials, there were significant between-group, post-intervention effect sizes for child behavior (<i>g</i> = 0.42 [0.25, 0.59], <i>p</i> < 0.001, <i>k</i> = 13), goal attainment (<i>g</i> = 1.22 [0.83, 1.60], <i>p</i> < 0.001, <i>k</i> = 9), parental satisfaction (<i>g</i> = 0.67 [0.36, 0.98], <i>p</i> < 0.001, <i>k</i> = 8) and parental stress (<i>g</i> = 0.45 [0.20, 0.71], <i>p</i> < 0.01, <i>k</i> = 10) favoring PP programs. The main limitation of the review was the risk of bias in the primary studies reviewed. This updated meta-analysis shows that PP programs are evidence-based, systemic interventions that may lead to positive outcomes for families of children with emotional and behavioral problems, post-divorce adjustment difficulties, intellectual disability, ADHD, and at risk of obesity.</p><p><b>Trial Registration:</b> PROSPERO: CRD42024504594</p>","PeriodicalId":51396,"journal":{"name":"Family Process","volume":"64 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/famp.70049","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144255839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Family ProcessPub Date : 2025-05-29DOI: 10.1111/famp.70044
Evin Winkelman Richardson, Jacquelyn K. Mallette, Ted G. Futris, Rachel Brown, Jessica Starke, Shuangyue Cui, Lydia Shepherd
{"title":"Dyadic Reports of Interparental Relationship Quality and Intentions to Continue Fostering Among Coupled Foster Caregivers","authors":"Evin Winkelman Richardson, Jacquelyn K. Mallette, Ted G. Futris, Rachel Brown, Jessica Starke, Shuangyue Cui, Lydia Shepherd","doi":"10.1111/famp.70044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.70044","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The United States is in a foster care crisis with nearly 400,000 children in need of care and not enough foster homes to fill this need. Therefore, recruiting and retaining high-quality foster care homes is essential for the placement stability and well-being of some of our society's most vulnerable children. For foster caregivers in a couple relationship, the health of the couple and coparenting relationship may play a major role in their well-being and satisfaction, influencing their retention. Guided by existing literature and the sound house theory (Gottman and Silver 2015), the current study employs latent profile analysis to examine the interparental relationship quality of 79 different-sex foster caregiver couples, potential covariates of their interparental relationship quality, and their intent to continue fostering for the next 12 months. Three groups of foster caregiver couples emerged where (1) both partners reported high interparental relationship quality, (2) both partners reported moderate relationship quality, and (3) fathers reported moderate relationship quality and mothers reported low relationship quality. Couple and foster caregiver demographic characteristics were not associated with foster caregiver couple groups. Foster mothers in groups where foster fathers reported moderate interparental relationship quality and mothers reported low interparental relationship quality reported significantly lower intentions to continue fostering. These findings have potential implications for foster caregiver screening and expanding formal support resources to promote retention. Future research is needed with larger and generalizable samples to further assess the efficacy of couple relationship education on relationship quality and retention of foster caregiver couples.</p>","PeriodicalId":51396,"journal":{"name":"Family Process","volume":"64 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/famp.70044","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144171766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Family ProcessPub Date : 2025-05-29DOI: 10.1111/famp.70043
Weiman Xu, Gilbert R. Parra, Thulitha Wickrama, Michael J. Merten
{"title":"Parent–Adolescent Relationship Quality and Parenting Stress Across More Than Two Decades: The Mediating Role of Depressive Symptoms","authors":"Weiman Xu, Gilbert R. Parra, Thulitha Wickrama, Michael J. Merten","doi":"10.1111/famp.70043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.70043","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Parenting stress is associated with negative outcomes for both parents and their children, and it may be influenced by the quality of relationships that parents had with their own parents. To enhance understanding of this intergenerational relation, the present study examined whether stability and change in depressive symptoms mediated the association between parent–adolescent relationship quality during adolescence and subsequent parenting stress almost 25 years later. Using data from all five waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) restricted dataset from the United States, the study included adolescents who were between 12 and18 years old at Wave 1 and had at least one child at Wave 5 (2016–2018; <i>N</i> = 4890; <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> at Wave 1 = 15.67, SD<sub>age</sub> at Wave 1 = 1.50). A modified version of the random intercept cross-lagged model was used to account for both within- and between-person levels of depressive symptoms. Findings indicated that high levels of parent–adolescent relationship quality (with both mothers and fathers) were related to low levels of depressive symptoms that were stable over the almost 25 years of the study (between-person individual differences). In turn, low levels of depressive symptoms that were stable over time were associated with low levels of parenting stress in parenthood. Results underscore the potential long-term value of interventions that enhance parent–adolescent relationship quality in adolescence, as these could reduce enduring depressive symptoms and parenting stress in future generations.</p>","PeriodicalId":51396,"journal":{"name":"Family Process","volume":"64 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/famp.70043","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144171768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Family ProcessPub Date : 2025-05-29DOI: 10.1111/famp.70042
Janani Umamaheswar, Eman Tadros, Arden Richards-Karamarkovich
{"title":"Developing Evidence-Informed Support Groups for Families of Incarcerated People: Findings From a Qualitative Study","authors":"Janani Umamaheswar, Eman Tadros, Arden Richards-Karamarkovich","doi":"10.1111/famp.70042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.70042","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Researchers have extensively documented the financial, social, emotional, and psychological challenges that families of incarcerated people face, and there are growing calls for programs and services to help these families confront the collateral consequences of imprisonment. This article uses data from an ethnographic study exploring how family members of people in prison constructed and leveraged communities of support to help them cope with the stressors of having an incarcerated loved one. Drawing on 8 months of observations of a support group for families of people in prison and in-depth interviews with eight participants in this support group, we present findings related to family members' perspectives on the challenges they face, their reasons for joining the support group, and the group's strengths and limitations. Based on these findings, we argue that support groups for families of incarcerated people should be facilitated by trained professionals who are well versed in the unique traumas associated with contact with the criminal legal system.</p>","PeriodicalId":51396,"journal":{"name":"Family Process","volume":"64 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/famp.70042","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144171767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Family Resilience and Perceived Stress: A Three-Level Meta-Analysis","authors":"Rui Li, Tingni Mi, Donghong Wu, ZengYan Guo, Zhihong Ren","doi":"10.1111/famp.70045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.70045","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Although numerous studies have observed a negative correlation between family resilience and perceived stress, the strength of this relationship has exhibited significant variability in previous research. This study aimed to elucidate the relationship between family resilience and perceived stress, investigating the moderating roles of various factors. Employing a three-level meta-analysis, the research scrutinized 23 selected studies involving 17,480 participants and 99 effect sizes, following a comprehensive literature search and screening. The results revealed a significant negative correlation between family resilience and perceived stress, <i>r</i> = −0.25. Notably, the family resilience systems theory showed a significant negative correlation, <i>r</i> = −0.28, than other models, suggesting its superior ability to explain the resilience-stress relationship. Furthermore, the study found that the mean age of adults significantly moderated this relationship, with older adults demonstrating a more pronounced negative correlation, <i>r</i> = −0.24, implying that established resilience practices and life experience may enhance stress management in this group. These findings highlight the need for age-specific interventions that target the management of family resilience and perceived stress, emphasizing the critical role of appropriate theoretical frameworks.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51396,"journal":{"name":"Family Process","volume":"64 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144091863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Family ProcessPub Date : 2025-05-19DOI: 10.1111/famp.70040
Lin Bao, Anna Kristen, Helen Liu, Sebastian Dys, Yu Gao, Qian Wu, Bin Xiao, Jingjing Xu, Hongyu Zhang, Wen Zhang, Zhiyong Zhang, Marlene M. Moretti
{"title":"A Pilot Study of an Attachment-Based Parenting Intervention for Parents of Adolescents in China: Translation, Modifications, and Preliminary Effectiveness","authors":"Lin Bao, Anna Kristen, Helen Liu, Sebastian Dys, Yu Gao, Qian Wu, Bin Xiao, Jingjing Xu, Hongyu Zhang, Wen Zhang, Zhiyong Zhang, Marlene M. Moretti","doi":"10.1111/famp.70040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.70040","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Adolescent mental health problems have increased internationally, and over one-quarter of Chinese adolescents—approximately 40 million teens—have reported significant mental health problems in recent years. This study tailored and evaluated the acceptance, uptake, and effectiveness of <i>Connect</i>, a brief manualized trauma-informed and attachment-based parenting program, for Mandarin-speaking families in Beijing, China. 30 parents (aged 36–50 years, <i>M</i><sub><i>age</i></sub> = 44.6, SD = 3.2; 83.3% mothers, 16.7% fathers) of youth aged 10–16 years (<i>M</i><sub><i>age</i></sub> = 13.4, SD = 1.5; 50.0% female) were enrolled in a single-arm pilot study with preprogram and postprogram assessments of youth mental health, parental functioning, and quality of parent–child relationships. Careful translation was necessary to retain program nuances and meaning, including references to Chinese idioms and poems to enhance cultural meaning. Program modifications included tailoring role plays to reflect culturally relevant domains of parent–youth conflict, direct prompting of parents in reflection exercises and discussions, and a deeper emphasis on empathy in parent–child relationships. These modifications enhanced rather than diminished core program fidelity within this cultural context. Program enrolment, attendance, retention, and parents' feedback revealed strong program acceptance and perceived cultural fit. Parents also reported significant reductions in youth internalizing and externalizing problems, youth-to-parent and parent-to-youth physical and psychological aggression, parent depressed mood, and parenting strain. The findings align with previous randomized clinical trials and implementation studies of <i>Connect</i> across diverse countries, contexts, and clinical populations. Replication is required with larger samples, randomized designs, and using parent and youth measures to sensitively capture the quality of parent–child relationships.</p>","PeriodicalId":51396,"journal":{"name":"Family Process","volume":"64 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/famp.70040","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144091864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Can Sexual and Gender Minority Individuals Benefit From General Couple Relationship Education?: Comparative Benefits in Individual and Relational Functioning","authors":"Mengiln Wei, Francesca Adler-Baeder, Julianne McGill","doi":"10.1111/famp.70047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.70047","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Couple relationship education (CRE) programs have been widely implemented across the nation for decades and serve an increasingly diverse population of couples; however, effectiveness studies have continued to focus on the experiences of the “average” participant, thus overlooking the experience of minoritized populations. Few studies have centered on the experiences of sexual and gender minority (SGM) individuals, especially those who identify as SGM but are in different-gender appearing relationships. Using a sample of 153 SGM CRE participants (80% cisgender women, 52% identified as bisexual or pansexual, 57% had a different-gender partner) and 2061 non-SGM participants who are racially and economically diverse, this study compared baseline differences and post-program growth trajectories between SGM and non-SGM participants in relationship quality, skills, mental, and physical health symptoms. Results show that SGM and non-SGM participants have similar average levels of relationship functioning and skills at baseline, but SGM participants report more mental health symptoms and lower sleep quality, on average. Following propensity score matching, growth curve models indicated no differences in the significant growth for both groups from baseline to 6 months in relationship quality, skills, and sleep quality, suggesting similar benefits. However, a significant interaction effect indicated that SGM participants improved more in mental health symptoms compared to non-SGM participants. This is encouraging evidence that SGM individuals can benefit from general CRE and further validates efforts for inclusion.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51396,"journal":{"name":"Family Process","volume":"64 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144074253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Family ProcessPub Date : 2025-05-15DOI: 10.1111/famp.70041
Antonia Steinberg, Johannes Boettcher, Anna Leidger, Ania C. Muntau, Jonas Denecke, Nicole Kaiser, Anne Daubmann, Antonia Zapf, Karl Wegscheider, Ann Kathrin Ozga, Anna Isabella Suling, Monika Bullinger, Julia Quitmann, Jörg Dirmaier, Stefanie Witt, Farhad Rezvani, Christine Mundlos, Lisa Biehl, Miriam Rassenhofer, Jörg M. Fegert, Dunja Tutus, Gerald Willms, Jan Zeidler, Nicolas Pardey, Johann-Matthias Graf von der Schulenburg, Silke Wiegand-Grefe
{"title":"Evaluation of the Health-Related Quality of Life and Mental Health of Parents With Children and Adolescents With a Rare Disease Based on the Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial to Investigate a Family-Based Intervention and an Online Intervention for Affected Families (CARE-FAM-NET)","authors":"Antonia Steinberg, Johannes Boettcher, Anna Leidger, Ania C. Muntau, Jonas Denecke, Nicole Kaiser, Anne Daubmann, Antonia Zapf, Karl Wegscheider, Ann Kathrin Ozga, Anna Isabella Suling, Monika Bullinger, Julia Quitmann, Jörg Dirmaier, Stefanie Witt, Farhad Rezvani, Christine Mundlos, Lisa Biehl, Miriam Rassenhofer, Jörg M. Fegert, Dunja Tutus, Gerald Willms, Jan Zeidler, Nicolas Pardey, Johann-Matthias Graf von der Schulenburg, Silke Wiegand-Grefe","doi":"10.1111/famp.70041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.70041","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Parents caring for children with rare diseases are more impaired regarding health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and mental health than healthy controls and norm data. To address the research gap in psychological care for these parents, this study evaluates the effectiveness of two family-based interventions. The children affected by rare disease and their families network (CARE-FAM-NET) study is a multicenter randomized controlled 2 × 2 factorial trial for affected families with children (0–21 years). This paper focuses on evaluating the impact of two interventions, one face-to-face (CARE-FAM) and one online (WEP-CARE), on the HRQoL and mental health of parents. One thousand, one hundred sixty-eight parents participated: TAU = 291, CARE-FAM = 296, WEP-CARE = 300, and CARE-FAM + WEP-CARE combined = 281. Data were collected at four time points over a period of 18 months using standardized questionnaires. The results had to be interpreted exploratively. The results indicate that there are no clinically relevant differences in the parents' HRQoL and mental health between the treatment groups. However, time-dependent differences in the intervention effects for WEP-CARE were observed. Although the results did not show clear relevant differences between conditions, trends in improvement in HrQoL and mental health were identified. CARE-FAM shows a greater reduction in parental distress and WEP-CARE shows a greater distortion of distress, particularly at T3 and T4. Given the exploratory nature of this study, it highlights the urgent need for further confirmatory research in this area.</p>","PeriodicalId":51396,"journal":{"name":"Family Process","volume":"64 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/famp.70041","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144074316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Family ProcessPub Date : 2025-05-14DOI: 10.1111/famp.70039
Manijeh Daneshpour, Catherine Ducommun-Nagy
{"title":"Introduction to the Special Section on Contextual Therapy","authors":"Manijeh Daneshpour, Catherine Ducommun-Nagy","doi":"10.1111/famp.70039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.70039","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This special section on Contextual Therapy offers an in-depth exploration of its foundational principles and evolving applications in addressing complex relational dynamics. Contextual Therapy, founded by Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy, emphasizes relational ethics, trust, and accountability, providing a framework for understanding intergenerational relationships and addressing systemic injustices. This issue begins with Ducommun-Nagy's conceptual paper, which revisits Contextual Therapy's core principles and introduces innovative ideas for modern therapeutic practice. The collection includes articles that apply Contextual Therapy to diverse cultural contexts, such as Daneshpour's exploration of trust and fairness in couples therapy and Glebova et al.'s examination of sociocultural trauma in immigrant families. van der Meiden delves into the concepts of exoneration and forgiveness, offering insights into their therapeutic implications. Further contributions include Gutierrez and Nleko's analysis of systemic healing in families affected by father absence, and Natrajan-Tyagi and Poulsen's culturally sensitive work with Asian Indian families. Empirical studies, like Rived Ocana's investigation of relational ethics and self-differentiation, provide valuable clinical insights. van Bremen and Natrajan-Tyagi critique neoliberal ideology's impact on family dynamics, showcasing Contextual Therapy's role in promoting authentic relationships. Together, these articles reaffirm Contextual Therapy's relevance, offering practical strategies for therapists and underscoring its adaptability to diverse sociocultural challenges. This special section ensures that Contextual Therapy remains a vital, evolving approach in contemporary therapeutic practice.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51396,"journal":{"name":"Family Process","volume":"64 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143949771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}