Family-Oriented Primary Care

The first edition of Family-Oriented Primary Care helped bring the family approach to health care into the medical mainstream. This new edition, like the first, will provide the health care professional 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 to the primary care provider. TOC:From the contents: 1. Basic Premises of Family-Oriented Primary Care.- 2. How Families Affect Illness.- 3. Family Systems Concepts.- 4. A Family-Oriented Approach to Individual Patients.- 5. Involving the Family in Daily Practice.- 6. Building Partnerships.- 7. Family Interviewing Skills in Primary Care.- 8. When Interactions Are Difficult.- 9. Working with Couples in Primary Care.- 10. The Birth of a Family.- 11. Supporting Parents.- 12. When Parents Get Stuck.- 13. Family-Oriented Care of Adolescents.- 14. Recognizing the Signs of Strain.- 15. Anticipating Loss.- 16. Looking Death in the Eye.- 17. Genetic Screening, Testing, and Families.- 18. The Developmental Challenges of Chronic Illness.- 19. Integrating the Mind-Body Split.- 20. Mobilizing Resources.- 21. When Drinking or Drugs Is Part of the Problem.- 22. Protecting the Family.- 23. Family-Oriented Primary Care in the Real World.- 24. Acute Hospital Care.- 25. Working Together.- 26. Managing Personal and Professional Boundaries.