Please enjoy this preview of an upcoming special issue of NCFR's journal Family Relations: Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Science.

The special issue is built around the topic "Translational Family Science," and several authors featured in the issue will present at the 2017 NCFR Annual Conference about how translational Family Science can provide tools to address health disparities.

Issue guest editors:
Joseph G. Grzywacz, Florida State University
Wendy Middlemiss, University of North Texas

Articles Available Now

• Looking Backward, Around, and Forward: Family Science Has Always Been Translational Science (PDF)
  Joseph G. Grzywacz and Wendy Middlemiss
   
• Promoting Resilience with the ¡Unidos Se Puede! Program: An Example of Translational Research for Latino Families
  Ronald B. Cox, Jr.
   
• Training Translational Scholars Within Family Science Programs
  Ronald M. Sabatelli
   
• From Discovery to Practice: Translating and Transforming Work-Family Research for the Health of Families (PDF)
  Maureen Perry-Jenkins, Rachel J. Herman, Hillary Paul Halpern, and Katie Newkirk
   
• A Cultural-Variant Approach to Community-Based Participatory Research: New Ideas for Family Professionals (PDF)
  Tammy L. Henderson, Aya Shigeto, James J. Ponzetti, Jr., Anne B. Edwards, Jessica Stanley, and Chandra Story
   
• Family Instability and Children's Health
  Chelsea Smith, Robert Crosnoe, and Shannon E. Cavanagh
   
• Building Strong Family–School Partnerships: Transitioning from Basic Findings to Possible Practices
  Susan M. Sheridan and Lorey A. Wheeler
   
• Responding to Infertility: Lessons From a Growing Body of Research and Suggested Guidelines for Practice (PDF)
  Karina M. Shreffler, Arthur L. Greil, and Julia McQuillan
   
• Collaborative Translation of Knowledge to Protect Infants During Sleep: A Synergy of Discovery and Practice (PDF)
  Wendy Middlemiss, Stephanie Cowan, Cory Kildare, and Kaylee Seddio
   
• Translational Family Science and Forgiveness: A Healthy Symbiotic Relationship? (PDF)
  Frank D. Fincham
   
• Family Science as Translational Science: A History of the Discipline (PDF)
  Raeann R. Hamon and Suzanne R. Smith
   
• What Relationship Researchers and Relationship Practitioners Wished the Other Knew: Integrating Discovery and Practice in Couple Relationships
  David G. Schramm, Adam M. Galovan, and H. Wallace Goddard
   
• Adapting the Ideas of Translational Science for Translational Family Science (PDF)
  Joseph G. Grzywacz and Jeffrey W. Allen
   
• Family Life Education: Translational Family Science in Action (PDF)
  Carol A. Darling, Dawn Cassidy, and Marsha Rehm
   
• From Education to Advocacy and Activism: Alternative Approaches for Translating Family Science to Policy (PDF)
  Bethany L. Letiecq and Elaine A. Anderson
   
• Parent–Child Contact for Youth in Foster Care: Research to Inform Practice (PDF)
  Lenore M. McWey and Ming Cui
   
• Translation that Transforms: Leadership and the Working Poor (PDF)
  Steven D. Mills