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A Content Analysis of Five Scholarly Journals: What Has Been Written About Medical Family Therapy?
The purpose of this research project was to ascertain what has been written about medical family therapy in five scholarly journals, Family Process; Families, Systems, & Health; Family Practice; the Journal of Family Therapy; and the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, since the phrase medical family therapy was coined in 1984 by McDaniel, Hepworth, & Doherty. Author: Karen Kinman, Texas Woman's University
An Examination of Family Systems Medicine and The Practice of Medical Family Therapy in The Context of a Bidirectional Model
Medical family therapy in particular, has created a new role for family therapists in medical settings that requires close collaboration with medical providers. The purpose of this study was to understand how those who endorse a collaborative approach to health care perceive the state of the art of this new practice. Author: Alves M. Grace Pereira, The Florida State University
Medical Family Therapy: Conceptual Clarification and Consensus of an Emerging Profession
The first article presented in this dissertation highlights the available literature on MedFT and identifies ways to further MedFT research initiatives and possibilities. The second article is based upon based on responses from an expert panel of MedFTs and includes an analysis of their perspectives on how MedFT should be defined, practiced, and taught. Author: Lisa E. Tyndall, East Carolina University
Medical Family Therapy in A Primary Care Setting: A Model of Integration
The following dissertation seeks to address this issue from two interrelated venues: (a) to discuss how MedFT is connected to the profession of MFT in both conceptual and practical terms, and (b) to discuss a framework for integrated primary care, utilizing MedFTs, that does not service a targeted population. Author: Daniel P. Marlowe, East Carolina University
Medical Family Therapy in Cancer Care
In this literature review, Medical Family Therapy shows promise in fulfilling the psychosocial needs of patients and their families. Medical Family Therapy also has the potential to offer benefits to cancer care providers, administrators, and third party payors. Author: Ryan Anderson, East Carolina University
Medical Family Therapy Meets Childhood Obesity
This manuscript is a review article regarding care for overweight/obese children and their families through synthesizing treatment in the clinical, administrative/policy, and financial domains as organized by C.J. Peek's Three-world view. Author: Keeley J. Pratt, East Carolina University
A 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 period with low-income primary care patients. Author: Mayuri L. Pandit, Loma Linda University
Training for Collaboration: A Study of Medical Family Therapy Interns
This dissertation explored how family therapists are trained in their clinical setting at Nova Southeastern University to work collaboratively within the medical system using their social systems training to enhance biopsychosocial assessment and treatment. Author: Helene Marie Van Heden, Nova Southeastern University
Training in Medical Family Therapy: Spirituality & The BPSS Model
Spirituality has been identified as one of the four key dimensions of the biopsychosocial-spiritual (BPSS) model. The overall goal of this study was to explore how family therapy faculty members from nine different training sites across the United States addressed the spiritual dimension in the training and supervision of students and trainees. Author: Emilee J. Delbridge, The University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Trials and Transplantation: An Exploration of Medical Family Therapy and Medical Crisis Counseling Principles in The Experience of a Third Stage Renal Failure Patient
This paper represents reflection on the exploration of the principles of both Medical Crisis Counseling and Medical Family Therapy in the experience of a patients in third stage renal failure who undergoes dialysis three times a week while awaiting a kidney transplant. Author: Randi Lynn Kent, Prescott College