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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"medical family therapy"”.
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Study of Brief Single Session Medical Family Therapy with Low-Income Patients
Medical Family Therapy (MedFT) has been promoted as beneficial for vulnerable patient populations. However, there is a need for MedFT effectiveness studies with longitudinal randomized control trials. Thus, this pilot study investigated the results of a brief single session of MedFT over a one-week …
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Student Healthcare Providers' Illness Narratives: Impact on Family-Focused Care
… areas of healthcare: medicine, nursing, and medical family therapy (MedFT). Through grounded theory analysis of these interviews, we looked to understand how these providers connected their own experiences with illness to their clinical work, particularly in including patients’ family members …
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The Role of a Medical Family Therapist: An Ecological Systems Look at Pediatric Illness
This research explores the question of what role medical family therapists play on a health care team when working with serious pediatric illness. Seven participants from three different health care settings were interviewed. Results were organized within the ecological systems framework …
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BRIDGING SCHOOL, HEALTH, AND FAMILY SYSTEMS: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY OF MEDICAL FAMILY THERAPISTS IN SCHOOL-BASED MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
… examines the role of relational integration and family inclusion within school-based mental health systems through a multi-part research design. The first chapters provide a historical and policy analysis of the development of school-based health services in the United States, followed by a …
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Trauma, Coping, & the Couple Relationship : An Investigation of Pregnant Couples' Biopsychosocial-Spiritual Health
… recommendations are made specifically for Medical Family Therapy researchers and practitioners.
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Parent-Child Dyadic Experiences Living with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) during Emerging Adulthood
… adulthood and the launching stage of the family life cycle (Beatty, 2011; Capelle, Visser, and Vosman, 2016; Young et al., 2010). The parent-child relationship is important to both developmental and health outcomes in families coping with chronic illness during emerging adulthood …
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Illness As A Relational Process: Qualitative Analysis of Couple Therapy with Liver Patients
<p>The medical model traditionally emphasizes individual biological disease and is often unable to attend to the many ways illness impacts families and couples. Due to the focus on the biological process of disease, couples often struggle with the relational experience of illness. Quantitative …
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A FAMILY-CENTERED APPROACH TO PRIMARY CARE FOR OLDER ADULTS WITH COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT
… treatment and the use of supportive services for family caregivers. The primary care setting presents a unique opportunity to care for older adults living with cognitive impairment, who present with complex care needs that may benefit from a family-centered approach. An in-depth systemic review …
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Couples coping with clusters: Lived experiences of cluster headache patients and partners
… using the biopsychosocial-spiritual model and family systems theory it is assumed that cluster headache holistically influences relational systems. I utilized interpretive phenomenological analysis to explore (a) partners’ lived experiences with CH and (b) the relational experiences of CH …