Family-oriented primary care: A manual for medical providers

University of Rochester School of Medicine, New York. Manual for family medicine and primary care practitioners. Extended quick-reference outline format. Includes case studies. DNLM: 1. Family.

Family-Oriented Primary Care : A Manual for Medical Providers

McDaniel, Susan H.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Springer, Verlag

In the narrative of every human life and family, illness is a prominent character. Even if we have avoided serious illness ourselves, we cannot escape its reach into our circle of family and friends. Illness brings us closer to one another through caregiving and separates us through disability and death, yet little attention has been paid to personal and family illness in psychotherapy. Rather, therapists tend to focus on the psychosocial realm, leaving the biological realm to other physicians and nurses. Susan H. McDaniel, Jeri Hepworth, and William J. Doherty invited therapists who work with individuals and families experiencing chronic illness and disability to describe clinical cases that illustrate their approach to medical family therapy. Contributors then were asked to share a personal story about their experiences with illness, and to explain how those experiences affect the way they work with their clients. Vivid case studies dealing with a range of illnesses, including cancer infertility, schizophrenia, AIDS, heart disease, diabetes, asthma, and multiple sclerosis, show how the therapists' own experiences of illness are relevant to their care of others-and how these experiences can be used to form a healing bond in therapy. Poignant, honest, and illuminating, The Shared Experience of Illness allows us to understand more fully the relationship between the personal and the professional.

The Shared Experience Of Illness: Stories of Patients, Families, and Their Therapists

Hepworth, Jeri

Doherty, William J.

Mental Health

Basic Books

Dr. Susan H. McDaniel demonstrates her biopsychosocial systems approach to working with clients experiencing health issues. In this form of therapy, the focus is on the role medical illness plays in the client's emotional life and in the client's relationships with family members and with health professionals. In this session, Dr. McDaniel works with a 60-year-old woman with symptoms of depression. She meets with the client, her husband, and her son to help them to deal with her diagnosis.This video features a client and family members portrayed by actors on the basis of actual case material.

Family Therapy With Patients Having Physical Health Problems

Amer Psychological Assn

Integrating Family Therapy brings together family psychology and systems thinking to explore the ways systems therapists actually think and behave to bring about needed family change in the context of other systems. The theme of integration is carried through the book on several levels: integration of the family with school, work, medical, and other social systems; integration of research, theory, and systemic practice; and integration of methods and techniques from diverse schools of family therapy. The result is a book that gives the researcher and practitioner an encompassing perspective of family psychology and systems therapy today.

Integrating Family Therapy: Handbook of Family Psychology and Systems Therapy

Lusterman, Don-David

Despite a well-publicized shift away from the traditional family structure, the family remains the most basic relational unit in society and the physician's most potent ally. A family orientation in health care can provide a wider understanding of illness and broader range of solutions than the classic biomedical model. This volume offers practical guidance for the physician who would like to take greater advantage of this resource. It is structured around step-by-step protocols that are illustrated with case studies drawn from the authors' collaboration at the University of Rochester School of Medicine. The preliminary chapters give a common-sense grounding to family systems theory, family research, and family assessment. The family conference is carefully examined with step-by-step instructions on when and how to call and conduct one. The majority of the book offers practical guidelines for family-oriented approaches to transitional events in the life cycle, such as pregnancy or nursing home placement.

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