Medical family therapy casebook training in a collaborative context: What we did not know then…we know now.

Harkness, Jennifer L.; Nofziger, Anne C.

doi:10.1037/h0089868

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“…Particularly helpful for chronic illness, MedFT has enabled MFTs to skillfully integrate the biopsychosocial‐spiritual perspective, a systemic integration of physical and emotional health, familial/social relationships, and spiritual belief systems, with a family systems framework (McDaniel, Hepworth, & Doherty, 1992a; Rolland, 1994; Weihs, Fisher, & Baird, 2002). Specifically trained medical MFTs have effectively collaborated with medical practitioners to provide care for families struggling with chronic medical illnesses such as infertility (Burns, 1999; McDaniel, Hepworth, & Doherty, 1992b), cancer (Yeager et al., 1999), childhood asthma and diabetes, cardiovascular and neurological disorders (Campbell & Patterson, 1995), obesity (Campbell & Patterson, 1995; Flodmark, Ohlsson, Ryden, & Sveger, 1993), somatoform disorder (McDaniel, Hepworth, & Doherty, 1995), dual diagnosis (Harkness & Nofziger, 1998), and anorexia nervosa (Dare & Eisier, 1995).…”

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A National Survey of Family Physicians: Perspectives on Collaboration With Marriage and Family Therapists

Clark

Linville²,

Rosen

2009

J Marital Family Therapy

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Recognizing the fit between family medicine and marriage and family therapy (MFT), members of both fields have made significant advances in collaborative health research and practice. To add to this work, we surveyed a nationwide random sample of 240 family physicians (FPs) and asked about their perspectives and experiences of collaboration with MFTs. We found that FPs frequently perceive a need for their patients to receive MFT-related care, but their referral to and collaboration with MFTs were limited. Through responses to an open-ended question, we gained valuable information as to how MFTs could more effectively initiate collaboration with FPs.

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A National Survey of Family Physicians: Perspectives on Collaboration With Marriage and Family Therapists

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Linville²,

Rosen

2009

J Marital Family Therapy

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“…Previous published articles have focused on the availability (Brucker et al 2005) and development of internship sites (Grauf-Grounds and Sellers 2006), as well as specific skills needed to supervise students in medical settings (Edwards and Patterson 2006). Others have provided insight into the quality of training that can happen in a collaborative context (Gawinski et al 1999;Harkness and Nofziger 1998). MedFT training has grown from one summer institute in its early years (URMC 2012) to ten training programs currently.…”

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Medical Family Therapy: Charting a Course in Competencies

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The skills and training medical family therapists need to be effective in their work is an underdeveloped area in the literature. Training programs in Medical Family Therapy (MedFT) currently vary in duration, intensity, and focus of material and most of this is due to the minimal research done on what core competencies are needed. The results presented in this paper are the product of a larger modified Delphi (Dalkey in Studies in the quality of life, Lexington Books, Lexinton, MA, 1972) study designed to reach consensus regarding the current definition, scope, and practice of MedFT. Thirty-seven experts in MedFT participated in this two-phase investigation. What resulted and will be reported on in this article are the training requirements and recommended core competencies for the practice of MedFT. Participants indicated that 12 academic course content areas and 13 core competencies should be required of those seeking training in MedFT. Recommendations for MedFT core competencies at the master's, post master's, and doctoral levels, as well as advancements for future research, are described in detail.

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“…The interrelated and reciprocal influences between family processes (e.g., support, communication, conflict, relationship quality) and health/disease processes (e.g., immune functioning, substance use) are well-documented, combined with encouraging evidence that purposeful attention to family processes in therapeutic interventions leads to targeted improvements in patients' and other family members' physiological well-being (e.g., diabetes management, cardiovascular functioning, asthma control) (Campbell and Patterson 1995;Linville et al 2007;Tyndall 2010). As efforts to extend ''collaboration'' broaden to actively include patients and families together with the professional members of multidisciplinary teams, MedFT is serving as both a commonsensical and natural bridge (Campbell 2003;Harkness and Nofziger 1998;Linville et al 2007). …”

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Advancing Medical Family Therapy Through Research: A Consideration of Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed-Methods Designs

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To survive in today's healthcare climate, stakeholders across all mental health disciplines must work to produce empirical evidence that earns their fields' regard by educators, providers, and policy makers. As the field of Medical Family Therapy (MedFT) answers this call, it will be important for researchers to clearly define, characterize, and assess MedFT practice across clinical, operational, and financial arenas of care. In this account, we propose a common lexicon from which to do this, highlighting the following core tenets of MedFT: systems theory, biopsychosocial-spiritual sensitivity in practice, agency, communion, interdisciplinary collaboration, and the three-world model of healthcare. We conclude by offering concrete ways to advance the MedFT research agenda using qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-method approaches.Keywords Collaborative family healthcare Á Integrated healthcare Á Medical Family Therapy Á Research agenda Á Research methods Over the past two decades, Medical Family Therapy (MedFT) has emerged as a distinctive subspecialty of Marriage and Family Therapy. Since its foundation, MedFT has adapted and evolved in response to the dynamic and ever-changing landscapes of healthcare, including the advent of healthcare maintenance organizations, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and recent calls for patient-centered medical homes. These shifts in care contexts have presented both challenges and opportunities for the development of innovative disciplines with practitioners who specialize in collaborative care. To survive in today's healthcare climate, all mental health disciplines must work harder to produce empirical evidence that contributes to the body of knowledge about the respective and overlapping effectiveness of treatment approaches to earn favor by educators, providers, and policy makers. As we work to answer this call, researchers must clearly define, characterize, and assess MedFT across clinical, operational, and financial arenas of practice. To this end, the two-fold purpose of this paper is: (1) to establish/confirm a lexicon for MedFT research, and (2) to identify research methods (qualitative, quantitative, and mixedmethods) that bear promise to advance the field of MedFT.

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Medical family therapy casebook training in a collaborative context: What we did not know then…we know now.

Cited by 13 publications

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A National Survey of Family Physicians: Perspectives on Collaboration With Marriage and Family Therapists

A National Survey of Family Physicians: Perspectives on Collaboration With Marriage and Family Therapists

Medical Family Therapy: Charting a Course in Competencies

Advancing Medical Family Therapy Through Research: A Consideration of Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed-Methods Designs

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