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Article: Coming full circle: family therapy and psychiatry reunite in a training program. (Collaboration In Action).
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- Families, Systems & Health
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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The authors of this paper describe a model of collaboration implemented in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Medicine at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. The experiences of two trainees, a marriage and family therapy intern, and a third year resident in psychiatry, are highlighted. Strengths of this collaboration model are discussed, along with caveats and challenges.
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Some of the earliest developers of family psychotherapy interventions were psychiatrists who reacted against the prevalent psychoanalytic structures of 1950's psychiatry (Broderick & Schrader, 1981). The idea of meeting relatives of an identified patient, ...