Family Process is a quarterly peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 academic journal

Academic journal

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 covering research on family system issues, including policy and applied practice. It is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Family Process Institute. Since 2007, the journal publishes its abstracts also in Mandarin and Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

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Impact

According to the Journal Citation Reports

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, the journal has a 2010 impact factor

Impact factor

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 of 1.926, ranking it 7th out of 40 journals in the category "Family Studies", 35th out of 102 journals in the category "Psychology, Clinical (science)", and 36th out of 104 journals in the category "Psychology, Clinical (social science)".

History

The journal was established in 1962 by Nathan Ackerman

Nathan Ackerman

Nathan W. Ackerman was an American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and one of the most important pioneers of the field of family therapy....

, Donald deAvila Jackson

Donald deAvila Jackson

Don D. Jackson was an American psychiatrist best known for his pioneering work in family therapy.From 1947 to 1951 he studied under Harry Stack Sullivan....

, and Jay Haley

Jay Haley

Jay Douglas Haley was one of the founding figures of brief and family therapy in general and of the strategic model of psychotherapy, and he was one of the more accomplished teachers, clinical supervisors, and authors in these disciplines.-Life and works:Conceived in a log cabin on his family's...

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