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- Title
Medical family therapy: an emerging arena for family therapy.
- Authors
Doherty, William J.; McDaniel, Susan H.; Hepworth, Jeri
- Abstract
This paper describes an important recent development in American family therapy. Medical family therapy uses a biopsychosocial systems model to work with families who have a member with a chronic illness or disability. The authors maintain that family therapy has tended to embrace the mind-body split and to view itself too narrowly as a mental health specialty. Medical family therapists work collaboratively with physicians and other health professionals to help families achieve a sense of agency and communion in facing some of the greatest challenges that life brings.
- Subjects
UNITED States; FAMILY psychotherapy; FAMILIES; FAMILY therapists; SOCIAL constructionism; BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL model; MEDICAL care; CHRONIC diseases; MEDICAL personnel
- Publication
Journal of Family Therapy, 1994, Vol 16, Issue 1, p31
- ISSN
0163-4445
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-6427.1994.00775.x