Families, Systems & Health back issues from December 2007:
Cultivating engaged patients: a lesson from adult learning.(Report)
Dec 01, 2007; ... Today's medical literature is replete with care directives and protocols. Much less has been written about personalizing care in a way that actively engages patients in a collaborative process with their care provider. Being engaged means that patients are mindful of their personal health ...
Cultural genogram: a tool for teaching and practice.(Report)
Dec 01, 2007; ... Cultural issues affect patients', families', and providers' perspectives on health, illness, and disease, thus a provider's sensitivity and awareness to cultural issues can influence the quality and outcome of the patient and family encounter. As the population of the United States becomes ...
Counseling and psychotherapy skills training for family physicians.(Report)
Dec 01, 2007; ... In many healthcare systems, family physicians are the primary source of direct care for patients with mental health problems in the community, yet family physicians are not often routinely or adequately trained to conduct counseling or psychotherapy. The current study conducted a 5-weekend ...
Providers' perspectives on troublesome overusers of medical services.(Report)
Dec 01, 2007; ... The purpose of this study was to better understand providers' perspectives of and experiences with frequent users of medical services. Focus group interviews were conducted with physicians in San Diego, California, and Omaha, Nebraska. Indicators of problematic patient overuse of medical ...
Cancer as a "we-disease": examining the process of coping from a relational perspective.(Clinical report)
Dec 01, 2007; ... This paper presents findings on how breast cancer patients and their partners cope together with the cancer diagnosis and treatment. It expands on earlier frameworks of dyadic coping by presenting a model that views dyadic coping as a process that varies according to how couples appraise ...
Like mother like child: three generations' patterns of exercise behavior.(Report)
Dec 01, 2007; ... This study examined the patterns of leisure time physical activity and factors influencing those patterns among family members in 3 generations. The purpose of the study was threefold: to examine physical activity patterns in 3 generations of middle-school students' families; to examine ...
Assessing parenting stress in multiple samples of children with special needs (CSN).(Report)
Dec 01, 2007; ... Parenting stress (PS) and its correlates were examined in four pediatric outpatient and clinical research samples in children ages 4 through 12, who had a variety of health, developmental, behavioral, and neurological problems (designated children with special needs [CSN]). Participants ...
Book reviews.
Dec 01, 2007; ... When I work with our residents on their skills in talking and building relationships with patients, the same challenge occurs again and again: seeing the patient as a person and not as a diagnosis or problem category. Doctors are trained to think algorithmically and categorically, but ...
Treating Somatization: A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2007; ... Treating Somatization: A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach by Robert L. Woolfolk and Lesley A. Allen Guilford Press New York, 2007, 226 pp. $32.00 DOI: 10.1037/1091-7527.25.4.451 One of the great challenges and frustrations for primary care physicians is treating ...
Ordinary Families, Special Children: A Systems Approach to Childhood Disability (3rd. ed.).(Book review)
Dec 01, 2007; ... Ordinary Families, Special Children: A Systems Approach to Childhood Disability (3rd. ed.) by Milton Seligman and Rosalyn Benjamin Darling Guilford Press New York, 2007, 434 pp. $34.55 DOI: 10.1037/1091-7527.25.4.453 Practical. Encompassing. Active. Sensitive ....
Old Age in a New Age: The Promise of Transformative Nursing Homes.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2007; ... Old Age in a New Age: The Promise of Transformative Nursing Homes by Beth Baker Vanderbilt University Press Nashville, 2007, 236 pp. DOI: 10.1037/1091-7527.25.4.455 Most of us dread the idea of spending our last months or years in a nursing home. Even though things ...
Managing CHF and depression in an elderly patient: being open to collaborative care.(MEDICAL FAMILY THERAPY CASEBOOK)
Dec 01, 2007; ... Murray and Lopez (1997) predict that by the year 2020 the top two contributors to the burden of disease worldwide will be ischemic heart diseases and depression. More than five million Americans suffer from Congestive Heart Failure (CHF; Miller & Missov, 2001). This disease accounts for ...
Managing CHF and depression in an elderly patient: being open to collaborative care.(COMMENTARY)(congestive heart failure)
Dec 01, 2007; ... The duality of congestive heart failure d depression are not unique, but the path taken by Henry and Dr. Howarth to an effective management plan was certainly noteworthy. This case illuminates several creative, patient-sensitive approaches that produced outstanding results. ...
A room and a photo.(POETRY)
Dec 01, 2007; ... Poetry is meant to move below and beyond the surface of things. Take the following poems, for example. One is about numbers, the other about photos, both ordinary and straightforward "things," small and unworthy of much notice. We say, "That is a room number; it identifies the location of ...
Room 153-1.(Poem)
Dec 01, 2007; ... <Pre> Room 153-1 Room One hundred53-1One hundred sick patients in the hospitalOne hundred sick patients have stayed in this roomOne hundred tears have been shedOne hundred reasons to be sickOne hundred ways it could go wrongOne hundred diagnostic tests ...
Photos.(Poem)
Dec 01, 2007; ... <Pre> Photos PhotosReminders of the pastMemories of running, Of being beautiful, Of laughing, Of embracing life,In all its brilliant colors.What was will never be again. Never will life be so carefree,So ...