Medical family therapy and integrated care /

"This new edition of Medical Family Therapy is a different book from its predecessor, given the many developments in the field in the 20 years since we wrote the first edition. Foundational chapters were redrafted from scratch, with older material retained only if it was equally relevant to the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	McDaniel, Susan H.
Other Authors:	Doherty, William J. (William Joseph), 1945-, Hepworth, Jeri, 1952-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, [2014]
Edition:	2nd ed.
Subjects:	Family psychotherapy. Family medicine. Sick > Family relationships. Sick children > Family relationships. Psychotherapy. Medicine. Family. HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / General. MEDICAL / Clinical Medicine. MEDICAL / Diseases. MEDICAL / Evidence-Based Medicine. MEDICAL / Internal Medicine. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

An overview of medical family therapy
Clinical strategies for medical family therapy
Collaboration with other health professionals
The shared emotional themes of illness
The self of the medical family therapist
Community engagement
Health behaviors that harm
Couples and illness
Pregnancy loss, infertility, and reproductive technology
Medical family therapy with children
Somatizing patients and their families
The experience of genomic medicine : a new frontier
Caregiving, end of life care, and loss
How medical family therapists can contribute to the transformation of health care.