Working With Families in Medical Settings provides mental-health professionals with the tools they need to figure out what patients and families want and how, within the constraints imposed by 21st-century healthcare settings, to best give them the care they need. Psychiatrists and other clinicians who work in medical settings know that working with a patient with a chronic illness usually entails work with that patient’s family as well as with other medical professionals. Enter Working With Families in Medical Settings, which shines a spotlight on the major issues professional caregivers face and shows them how to structure an effective intervention in all kinds of settings.
Key Features
- Essential Resource: A guide for psychiatrists and clinicians working with the medically ill.
- Focus on Family Involvement: Addresses the importance of involving families in patient care.
- Practical Tools: Offers tools for assessing and intervening in family dynamics.
- Adaptation to Illness: Explores common themes such as expressed emotion and resilience.
Additional Information
Some families need education; others have specific difficulties or dysfunctions that require skilled assessment and intervention. It is up to the clinician to find productive ways to work with common themes in family life: levels of resilience, life-cycle issues, and adaptation to illness, among others. Clinicians will find this resource to be invaluable in fostering productive relationships with patients and their families.
