Collaborative Health Care: A Family-Oriented Model

by Michael L. Glenn

Overview

Within the medical professions, the notion of the family as the basic unit of medical care has attracted a wide following, especially from physicians committed to a psychosocial orientation. Collaborative family-oriented primary care rests on interaction between family physicians and family therapists or counselors. Fundamental to this view is the conviction that one cannot understand a patient's illness without knowing the social, emotional, and biological context in which he or she lives. In addition, the author provides a much-needed examination of the rationale for instituting this type of medical care organization, and how such care can be cost effective, satisfying to patients, and a means to further understanding and research into health and illness.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275923198
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/15/1987
Pages:	238
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d)
Lexile:	1270L (what's this?)

About the Author

MICHAEL GLENN, M.D. is a full-time family practitioner in Everett, Massachusetts as well as a faculty member at both the Boston University School of Medicine and the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I. The Context of Health Care Today
What's Already Known
Some Basic Notions
What's Already Been Tried: Antecedents
What's Been Tried: 1945 to the the Present
The Organization of Collaborative Health
Part II. Collaborative Health Care In Practice
Starting Up
A Sampler: Clinical Examples of Collaborative Health Care
Problems in Collaboration
Referral to the Therapist
Questions Frequently Asked About CHC
Summary
Bibliography
Index
About the Author