Public health and family psychology.

Editorial: The Systemic in Couple and Family Research and Couple and Family Therapy

“…We also share a collective sense of disappointment when we encounter a failure to think about the impact of therapies beyond the individual or the utility of including family in intervention. Perhaps most important, healthcare delivery systems and its funders have been very slow to understand the unique value of couple and family therapy, preferring the simplest unit of service delivery, be it a pill or an individual therapy unit, despite the cost savings shown in family therapies (Crane & Christenson, ; Sher, Rubin, Kruepke, & Menon, ).…”

Evaluation of the Healthcare Cost Offsets of Mend: A Family Systems Mental Health Integration Approach

“…One area of integration has been within the eating disorder literature where family‐based therapy versus individual treatment has been significant in achieving remission for 6–12 months post‐treatment (Couturier et al, 2013). Although integration is a growing national trend (SAMSHA‐CIHS, 2019), it continues to be primarily focused on individual models of mental health and it is likely that the benefits seen in the CFT literature can be inferred into mental health integrated sites (Proulx & Synder, 2009; Rolland & Williams, 2005; Sher et al, 2019; Wood et al, 2008). The purpose of this study is twofold.…”