| Summary: | "This new edition of Medical Family Therapy is a different book from its predecessor, given the many developments in the field in the 20 years since we wrote the first edition. Foundational chapters were redrafted from scratch, with older material retained only if it was equally relevant to the current clinical environment. These include the overview of the field (Chapter 1); clinical strategies (Chapter 2); collaboration (Chapter 3); health behaviors (Chapter 7); pregnancy loss, infertility, and reproductive technologies (Chapter 9); children (Chapter 10); somatizing patients (chapter 11); and caregiving and end of life (Chapter 13). New chapters include the shared experiences of illness when therapists have personal or family experience with the illness of their patient (Chapter 4), community engagement (Chapter 6), medical family therapy with couples (Chapter 8), genetics and genomics (Chapter 12), and the future of medical family therapy (Chapter 14). A new appendix profiles the practices of a number of medical family therapists"--Foreword. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved).
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