Editor's Annual Report: 2012–2013

A Few Suggestions for Prospective Authors: Learning From Recent JMFT Articles

“…I planned for these thoughts to be part of the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy (JMFT) annual report (Piercy & Nguyen, ), but I got a little carried away. As I did in last year's annual report (Piercy & Nguyen, ), my intent is to continue to demystify why some articles are accepted in JMFT and why others—sometimes perfectly good ones in their own ways—are not. I will identify various qualities that I value and articles that seem to reflect these qualities.…”

JMFT 2014 Best Article of the Year Award: Whose Baby is the Most Beautiful?

“…Another honorable mention goes to Nick Cornett and Sue C. Bratton for their article, “ Examining the impact of child parent relationship therapy (CPRT) on family functioning .” In this article, Cornett and Bratton () examined the effectiveness of child–parent relationship therapy (CPRT), a filial therapy approach, using a single‐case, multiple‐data‐point design. In a previous JMFT annual report (when their article was in Early View), I called their study a “flexible and robust small‐sample methodology that I believe others could apply in family therapy settings without spending years collecting data” (Piercy & Nguyen, ).…”