The journal, Family Process, was founded in 1962 and is widely considered to be the preeminent publication of its kind in the field of family research and therapeutic intervention. Family Process is an international, multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal committed to publishing 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.

The journal’s impact factor is 3.9 which indicates its ranking.  In 2022, it was ranked 7th out of 46 journal publications in Family Studies, 34th out of 131 in Psychology Journals, and the highest of all family therapy journals.

Since its inception six decades ago, Family Process has become a major resource for mental health and social service professionals who are seeking cutting-edge research and clinical ideas about family and systems theory and practice.

• The editorial advisory board comprises outstanding thinkers, researchers, and practitioners drawn from an international arena, reflecting the intention and capacity to publish articles with worldwide relevance.
• Articles are expected to be both scholarly and accessible, and written in jargon-free prose.
• The journal strives for a dynamic interaction between theory/practice and research, such that articles on theory and practice inform future research and research articles contribute to the development of meaningful theory and practice.

The current editor of the journal is Melanie M. Domenech Rodríguez, PhD, ABPP.

Dr. Domenech Rodríguez is the 8^th Editor of the journal, Family Process. She is a professor of Psychology at Utah State University. Her work addresses health disparities through scholarship, teaching/training, and mentorship. Her scholarship on cultural adaptations of evidence-based interventions addresses health disparities in access, acceptability, and effectiveness of treatment for ethnic and culturally diverse families. Her contributions range from specific trials to advances in theory development to meta-analytic examination of impacts of cultural adaptations on treatment effectiveness. She is a past president of the National Latinx Psychological Association and Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology. She’s a former Chair of the USU Institutional Review Board. Dr. Domenech Rodríguez is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association of Psychological Science, and is American Board of Professional Psychology certified.