Recently added articles from Families, Systems & Health:

What physicians want from their patients: identifying what makes good patient communication.

Mar 01, 2008; Talen, Mary R. ... Many training curricula, research efforts, and resources have been focused on what makes competent doctor communication. However, few studies have identified what makes good patient communication. This project was designed to explore physicians' perspective on patient communication ....

In their own words: the 9/11 disaster child care providers.(Report)

Mar 01, 2008; Kinsel, John D. ... In the days following the 9/11 tragedy in New York City, Disaster Child Care (DCC) and Childcare Aviation Incident Response (CAIR) volunteers provided care for the young children of families whose loved ones died in the World Trade Center collapse. This retrospective pilot study of 66 DCC/ ...

Partnership for women's health: a new-age collaborative program for addressing maternal depression in the postpartum period.(Report)

Mar 01, 2008; Baker-Ericzen, Mary J. ... For women, depression is the leading cause of disease burden worldwide, and mothering young children increases the risk. Although screening tools are available and effective treatments exist, routine screening for maternal depression is not common in the United States. Studies have ...

Pediatric asthma and problems in attention, concentration, and impulsivity: disruption of the family management system.(Report)

Mar 01, 2008; McQuaid, Elizabeth L. ... Rationale: This study assesses the relationships between attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms, specific family asthma management domains and pediatric asthma morbidity. Methods: Participants were 110 children with asthma and a respective parent (ages 7-17, X = 11.6 ...

How do alcohol brief interventions fit with models of integrated primary care?(Report)

Mar 01, 2008; Funderburk, Jennifer Schum ... Hazardous and harmful alcohol use is prevalent in the United States and can lead to serious health risks for the individual and create a costly burden on the health care system. Research supports the use of brief interventions designed to reduce hazardous and harmful drinking. This article ...

What drives doctors crazy?(COMMENTARY)

Mar 01, 2008; Platt, Frederic W. ... Talen, Grampp, Tucker, and Schultz report a focus-group study in this issue that purports to discuss competent patient-communication. Rather than focusing on the patient's share of the medical interview, they elicit physicians' hopes and expectations of their patients' behavior. In a ...

Mild traumatic brain injury: impact on identity and ambiguous loss in the family.(Report)

Mar 01, 2008; Landau, Judith ... Research has revealed that almost half of relationships will end in divorce or separation when one member experiences a head injury. Many patients are not diagnosed initially, or for several months or years after their injury. Persons dealing with the numerous long-term cognitive and ...

Measuring the mesosystem: a survey and critique of approaches to cross setting measurement for ecological research and models of collaborative care.(Report)

Mar 01, 2008; McIntosh, Jeanne M. ... The current review outlines the implications of mesosystem measurement for ecological research and models of collaborative care. Existing approaches to single and multiple mesosystem measurement emphasizing adolescent and family ecological literature are described and critiqued. Ways in ...

Adolescent Girls in Crisis: Intervention and Hope.(Book review)

Mar 01, 2008; Lawrence, Edith C. ... Adolescent Girls in Crisis: Intervention and Hope by Martha B. Straus W.W. Norton New York, 2007, 398 pp. DOI: 10.1037/1091-7527.26.1.108 Are today's adolescent girls really in crisis? If so, how many, who are they, and what are they ...

medicine man.(Poem)

Mar 01, 2008; Wald, Hedy S. ... <Pre> medicine man hail ye oh wise onemaster of the medical universejack of all tradesfamily doc medicine manallay my fears, crank the gearsfix me up, tune it upthe go to man, handyman give it to me jazzmanas you improvise body's ...

The almost dead woman.(IN SICKNESS AND HEALTH)

Mar 01, 2008; Nicholson, Martina ... The almost dead woman arrived on a Sunday afternoon on an oxcart from seven leagues away. Dr. Orihuela came to our house to ask for my assistance since all of the nurses were home with their families at farms outside of town that day. He told me that the woman had been in obstructed labor ...

Power, borders, and boundaries.(POETRY)

Mar 01, 2008; Shapiro, Johanna ... We include three apparently very different poems in this issue. One is a paean to the patient's family doctor; another references a dying cancer patient whose doctor does not want to let him go; and the third differentiates the living narrator from a group of deceased mental patients. ...

Book reviews.(Book review)

Mar 01, 2008; Waters, David B. ... DOI: 10.1037/1091-7527.26.1.105 I believe strongly in the importance of the family doctor as a guide and support for families, in their entirety and as individuals. For many families, their family doctor may be the strongest, most sensible individual available to them for a ...

The Art and Science of Child Custody Evaluations.(Book review)

Mar 01, 2008; Allen, Claudia W. ... The Art and Science of Child Custody Evaluations by Jonathan W. Gould and David A. Martindale Guilford Press New York, 2007. 450 pp. DOI: 10.1037/1091-7527.26.1.106 Approximately 43% of first marriages end in divorce within 15 years, ...

Volunteers to clean Pennsylvania cemetery full of anonymous dead.(Poem)

Mar 01, 2008; Goldman, Jan ... PITTSBURGH (AP) A Beaver county filmmaker wants to honor dozens of mental health patients who have been buried in an overgrown cemetery ... by cleaning up the cemetery and putting up a memorial. The 1300 graves sit neglected, covered by brush and vegetation, ... marked only by numbered ...

Cancer Patient.(Poem)

Mar 01, 2008; Stein, Howard F. ... <Pre> Cancer Patient Chemotherapy, radiation, surgery--All these were options, but giving up was not.From their conversations, it was hardTo know who wanted the treatment more,The doctor, the patient, or the family.They played off each otherLike ...