Reinforce the relationship between healthy bodies and healthy
relationships in families!
Feminist Perspectives in Medical Family Therapy explores the
groundbreaking collaboration of therapy and medicine to form a
biopsychosocial approach to health care. In this book, feminists
from several fields of study offer their ideas, research, and
personal experiences to show how gender, culture, and other
diversity issues affect medical treatment. This invaluable tool
provides tips and suggestions for interdisciplinary medical teams
working with patients' bodies, minds, spirits, and relationships
simultaneously.
Medical family therapy is a relatively new specialty, and this
book demonstrates its advantages and opportunities with an
easy-to-understand, applicable approach. Clinicians, researchers,
trainers, and students in medicine, social work, family therapy,
psychology, and others can use Feminist Perspectives in Medical
Family Therapy to examine more closely the medical issues that are
most relevant to women and families. In this unique resource,
you'll learn about: how both biological factors and environment
create gender differences--and how they apply to women with
depression how the issues of power and gender influence the
experiences of male and female medical family therapists
incorporating feminist principles in family medicine education the
benefits of collaborative care to both physicians and patients in a
family medicine setting using couples therapy in cases of vulvar
vestibulitis syndrome how a woman's diagnosis of cancer affects the
family system Feminist Perspectives in Medical Family Therapy
offers a variety of viewpoints from patients and providers, using
hard data, interviews, practicum models, case examples, and
reflections on personal experiences.
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