Self of the Therapist in Medical Settings: A Sociocultural and Systemic Perspective

ISBN-13: 9783030392703 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 83 str.

Max Zubatsky; Jackie Williams-Reade

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Navigating the Culture and Context of Medicine.- Chapter 2: Personal Illness and Family of Origin.- Chapter 3: Coping with Patients’ Death and Dying.- Chapter 4: Making Sense of Socio-Cultural Context of Medicine and Identity Development.- Chapter 5: Burnout and Fatigue.- Chapter 6. Practice Challenges and Ethical Decision Making.- Chapter 7: Professional Perspectives of the ‘Self’ in Their Journey Through Medicine. 

O autorze

Max Zubatsky, PhD, is an Associate Professor and Program Director of the Medical Family Therapy Program at Saint Louis University. He is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and state approved supervisor. Max completed his doctorate at the University of Minnesota in Family Social Science and his post-doctoral fellowship at the Chicago Center for Family Health. Max’s research interests include geriatrics, caregiving, integrated behavioral health, behavioral health skills of family medicine residents, and provider well-being. He currently directs The Memory Clinic, a specialty clinic in the Center for Counseling and Family Therapy which provides individual and group services to patients and families with memory loss. Max is the Coordinator of Integrated Behavioral Health in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and teaches courses to master’s,doctoral, and medical students in several clinical and research areas. He has published over 20 chapters and articles on mental health and medical topics in the field.

Jackie Williams-Reade, PhD, is an Associate Professor at Loma Linda University in Loma Linda, CA where she trains and supervises students in integrated care, conducts and supervises research, and presents nationally on topics related to families and health. She completed her doctorate in Medical Family Therapy from East Carolina University and a postdoctoral fellowship in pediatric palliative care at Johns Hopkins University. Jackie’s research interests include the application and advancement of Medical Family Therapy, pediatric illness, utilizing qualitative research to privilege patient and family voices in healthcare, meaning-making and spirituality, and self-of-therapist issues in medical settings. She has over 20 publications, has presented numerous times nationally and internationally on medical family therapy, is the Administrator of the 600+ member Medical Family Therapy Group on Facebook, and is currently the founding chair of the Family Therapists in Healthcare Interest Network with American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.