Family Process (journal)

Family Process is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal 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 in Mandarin and Spanish in addition to English. Family Process publishes original articles, including theory and practice, philosophical underpinnings, qualitative and quantitative clinical research, and training in couple and family therapy, family interaction, and family relationships with networks and larger systems.

Impact
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2011 impact factor of 1.727, ranking it 8th out of 38 journals in the category "Family Studies" and 42nd out of 109 journals in the category "Clinical Psychology".

History
The journal was established in 1962 by Nathan Ackerman, Donald deAvila Jackson, and Jay Haley.