TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Families A1 - Feldman, Mitchell D. A1 - Hahn, Steven R. A2 - Feldman, Mitchell D. A2 - Christensen, John F. A2 - Satterfield, Jason M. PY - 2014 T2 - Behavioral Medicine: A Guide for Clinical Practice, 4e AB - Our experience of health, illness, and health care, as patients and as practitioners, occurs in a social context. The “family” is at the heart of that context. Making the patient’s social context an explicit part of medical care affects every step of the clinical process, from basic assumptions about who the patient is to the conceptual framework for the database, theories of causality, and the implementation of treatment. Consider the following vignettes: SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/04/18 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1102936932 ER -