Provides mental-health professionals with the tools they need to figure out what patients and families want and how, within the constraints imposed by 21st-century healthcare setting, to best give them the care they need. Psychiatrists and other clinicians who work in medical settings know that working with a patient with a chronic illness usually entails work with that patient's family as well as with other medical professionals. Some families need education, others have specific difficulties or dysfunctions that require skilled assessment and intervention. It is up to the clinician to find...
Provides mental-health professionals with the tools they need to figure out what patients and families want and how, within the constraints imposed by...