Family Relations

Overview

Family Relations is an international journal of applied family studies. It is a journal of the National Council on Family Relations.

Aims and Scope

A premier, applied journal of family studies, Family Relations is mandatory reading for all professionals who work with families, including: family practitioners, educators, marriage and family therapists, researchers, and social policy specialists. The journal's content emphasizes family research with implications for intervention, education, and public policy, publishing:

• Empirical Studies
• Literature Reviews
• Conceptual Analyses

Articles published in Family Relations are original, innovative and interdisciplinary. Focusing on diverse families and family issues, the content always addresses the needs of practitioners, including specific recommendations for prevention and intervention. 

An institutional subscription to Family Relations and Journal of Family Theory & Review is included with a subscription to Journal of Marriage and Family.

Readership

research scholars, family life educators in academic and community settings, researchers interested in application and evaluation, family practitioners who use prevention or therapeutic models and techniques, and family policy specialists.

Abstracting and Indexing Information

• Abstracts in Social Gerontology (EBSCO Publishing)
• Academic ASAP (GALE Cengage)
• Academic Search (EBSCO Publishing)
• Academic Search Elite (EBSCO Publishing)
• Academic Search Premier (EBSCO Publishing)
• AgeLine Database (EBSCO Publishing)
• ATLA Religion Database (American Theological Library Association)
• CSA Biological Sciences Database (ProQuest)
• CSA Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management Database (ProQuest)
• CSA Sustainability Science Abstracts (ProQuest)
• Current Contents: Social & Behavioral Sciences (Thomson Reuters)
• Ecology Abstracts (ProQuest)
• ERIC: Educational Resources Information Center (CSC)
• Expanded Academic ASAP (GALE Cengage)
• IBSS: International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (ProQuest)
• InfoTrac
• Journal Citation Reports/Social Science Edition (Thomson Reuters)
• OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition (HW Wilson)
• Professional Development Collection (EBSCO Publishing)
• ProQuest Central (ProQuest)
• ProQuest Discovery (ProQuest)
• ProQuest Education Journals (ProQuest)
• ProQuest Family Health (ProQuest)
• ProQuest Platinum (ProQuest)
• ProQuest Psychology Journals (ProQuest)
• ProQuest Research Library (ProQuest)
• ProQuest Social Science Journals (ProQuest)
• PsycINFO/Psychological Abstracts (APA)
• Social Sciences Citation Index (Thomson Reuters)
• Social Services Abstracts (ProQuest)
• SocINDEX (EBSCO Publishing)
• Sociological Abstracts (ProQuest)
• VINITI (All-Russian Institute of Science & Technological Information)