RT Book, Section
A1 Feldman, Mitchell D.
A1 Hahn, Steven R.
A2 Feldman, Mitchell D.
A2 Christensen, John F.
A2 Satterfield, Jason M.
SR Print(0)
ID 1102936932
T1 Families
T2 Behavioral Medicine: A Guide for Clinical Practice, 4e
YR 2014
FD 2014
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071767705
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1102936932
RD 2024/04/19
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: