The first edition helped bring the family approach to health care into the medical mainstream. This new edition, like the first, provides health care professionals with a practical guide to working with and treating both the individual patient and the family. Tackling challenging and emerging issues, such as AIDS and the family, race and gender, child abuse and domestic violence in addition to pregnancy, child behavior and chronic illness, this volume is sure to be an indispensable guide for primary care providers.

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Inhalt
Basic Premises of Family-Oriented Primary Care.- How Families Affect Illness: Research on the Family's Influence on Health.- Family Systems Concepts: Tools for Assessing Families in Primary Care.- A Family-Oriented Approach to Individual Patients.- Involving the Family in Daily Practice.- Building Partnerships: Promoting Working Alliances and Motivation for Change.- Family Interviewing Skills in Primary Care: From Routine Contact to the Comprehensive Family Conference.- When Interactions Are Difficult.- Working with Couples in Primary Care: One Plus One Is More Than Two.- The Birth of a Family: Family-Oriented Pregnancy Care.- Supporting Parents: Family-Oriented Child Healthcare.- When Parents Get Stuck: Helping with Child Behavior Problems.- Family-Oriented Care of Adolescents.- Recognizing the Signs of Strain: Counseling Couples in Primary Care.- Anticipating Loss: Healthcare for Older Patients and Their Family Caregivers.- Looking Death in the Eye: Facilitating End-of-Life Care and the Grieving Process.- Genetic Screening, Testing, and Families.- The Developmental Challenges of Chronic Illness: Helping Patients and Families Cope.- Integrating the MindBody Split: A Biopsychosocial Approach to Somatic Fixation.- Mobilizing Resources: The Assessment and Treatment of Depression in Primary Care.- When Drinking or Drugs Is Part of the Problem: A Family Approach to the Detection and Management of Substance Use and Abuse.- Protecting the Family: Domestic Violence and the Primary Care Clinician.- Family-Oriented Primary Care in the Real World: Practical Considerations for Comprehensive Care.- Acute Hospital Care: Letting the Family In.- Working Together: Collaboration and Referral to Family-Oriented Mental Health Professionals.- Managing Personal and ProfessionalBoundaries: How the Clinician's Experience Can Be a Resource in Patient Care.