| Contents |
Introduction to medical family therapy : advanced applications / Jennifer Hodgson, Angela Lamson, Tai Mendenhall, and Lisa Tyndall -- A review of medical family therapy : 30 years of history, growth, and research / Lisa Tyndall, Jennifer Hodgson, Angela Lamson, Mark White, and Sharon Knight -- Medical family therapy : charting a course in competencies / Lisa Tyndall, Jennifer Hodgson, Angela Lamson, Mark White, and Sharon Knight -- Preparing to be a medical family therapist : bridging the multiple worlds of health care / Stephanie Trudeau-Hern, Tai Mendenhall, and Alison Wong -- Medical family therapy in integrated primary care : an interactional framework / Daniel Marlowe, Jennifer Hodgson, Angela Lamson, Mark White, and Tom Irons -- Building relationships in integrated care / Dan Marlowe and Jennifer Hodgson -- Working with providers and healthcare systems experiencing compassion fatigue and burnout / Angela Lamson, Patrick Meadors, and Tai Mendenhall -- MedFT supervision in context / Angela Lamson Keeley Pratt, Jennifer Hodgson, and Aubry Koehler -- Preparing for leadership roles in healthcare settings / Kenneth Phelps, Katherine Kueny, Barry Jacobs, Tommie Boyd, John Rolland, Macaran Baird, and James Zubatsky -- The medical family therapist as transdisciplinary trainer / Randall Reitz and Laura Sudano -- Honoring the "spiritual" in biopsychosocial-spiritual health care : medical family therapists on the front lines of graduate education, clinical practice, and research / Emilee Delbridge, Janie Taylor, and Carrie Hanson -- Medical family therapy scientist-practitioners / Lisa Zak-Hunter, Jerica Berge, Zephon Lister, Maureen Davey, Laura Lynch, and Wayne Denton -- Advancing medical family therapy through qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods research / Tai Mendenhall, Keeley Pratt, Kenneth Phelps, Macaran Baird, and Felisha Younkin -- Engaging communities as partners in research : advancing integrated care through purposeful partnerships / Tai Mendenhall, Jerica Berge, and William Doherty -- A primer in program evaluation for MedFTs / Jackie William-Reade, Bobbi-Ann Gordon, and Wendy Wray -- Dissemination and implementation science : research for the real-world medical family therapist / Jodi Polaha and Beth Nolan -- Advancing health equity in medical family therapy research / Melissa Lewis, Laurelle Myhra, and Monique Walker -- Policy and practice : a primer on the past, present, and future of healthcare reform in the United States / Todd Edwards, Jo Ellen Patterson, Joseph Scherger, and Susanna Vakili -- Family therapists in primary care settings : opportunities for integration through advocacy / Jennifer Hodgson, Melissa Fox, and Angela Lamson -- The ethics of integration : where policy and practice collide / Cathy Hudgins, Sandra Rose, Peter Fifield, and Steve Arnault -- How to prepare a medical family therapy policy brief / Peter Shin and Emily Jones -- A summary report of cost-effectiveness : recognizing the value of family therapy in health care / D. Russell Crane and Jacob Christenson -- Getting reimbursed for MedFT : financial models toward sustainability / Dan Marlowe, Jeff Capobianco, and Carl Greenberg -- Epilogue / Angela Lamson, Jennifer Hodgson, Tai Mendenhall, and D. Russell Crane. |
| Abstract |
"High praise to Hodgson, Lamson, Mendenhall, and Crane and in creating a seminal work for systemic researchers, educators, supervisors, policy makers and financial experts in health care. The comprehensiveness and innovation explored by every author reflects an in depth understanding that reveals true pioneers of integrated health care. Medical Family Therapy: Advanced Applications will lead the way for Medical Family Therapists in areas just now being acknowledged and explored."--Tracy Todd, PhD, LMFT, Executive Director of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy Integrated, interdisciplinary health care is growing in stature and gaining in numbers. Systems and payers are facilitating it. Patients and providers are benefiting from it. Research is supporting it, and policymakers are demanding it. The emerging field of Medical Family Therapy (MedFT) is contributing greatly to these developments and Medical Family Therapy: Advanced Applications examines its implementation in depth. Leading experts describe MedFT as it is practiced today, the continuum of services provided, the necessary competencies for practitioners, and the biological, psychological, social, and spiritual aspects of health that the specialty works to integrate. Data-rich chapters model core concepts such as the practitioner as scientist, the importance of context in health care settings, collaboration with families and communities, and the centrality of the relational perspective in treatment. The book's wide-spectrum coverage takes in research, training, financial, and policy issues, among them: Preparing MedFTs for the multiple worlds of health care Extending platforms on how to build relationships in integrated care Offering a primer in program evaluation for MedFTs Ensuring health equity in MedFT research Identifying where policy and practice collide with ethics and integrated care Recognizing the cost-effectiveness of family therapy in health care With its sophisticated insights into the current state - and the future - of healthcare reform, Medical Family Therapy: Advanced Applications is essential reading for researchers and practitioners in the fields of clinical psychology, counseling, family therapy, healthcare policy, medical family therapy, psychiatric nursing, psychiatry, public health, and social work |
