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Heafner, J., & Mauldin, L. (2018). Expanding system thinking: Incorporating tools from medical sociology into MFT education and research. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 45(2), 244-255.
Heafner and Mauldin examine the structural components of the mental healthcare system and its influence over systemic research and practice.

Lorås, L., Bertrando, P., & Ness, O. (2017). Researching systemic therapy history: In search of a definition. Journal of Family Psychotherapy, 28(2), 134–149.
As the MFT profession has advanced over the decades, to what extent have it done so in a manner that has lost sight of MFT’s identity? Lorås et al. (2017) venture into this question while proposing a renewed, coherent definition of ‘systemic therapy’ to inform ongoing research.

Wampler, K. S., Blow, A. J., McWey, L. M., Miller, R. B., & Wampler, R. S. (2019). The profession of couple, marital, and family therapy (CMFT): Defining ourselves and moving forward. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 45(1), 5–18.
Wampler et al. identify current challenges facing our profession while providing a potential roadmap for navigating the road ahead.