Collaborative Health Care: A Family-Oriented Model

by Michael L. Glenn

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275923193
• ISBN13: 9780275923198
• Release Date: April 1987
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"