Feminist Perspectives in Medical Family Therapy

Anne M. Prouty Lyness

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9781317786917
• Topic: Psychologie
• Subtopic: Santé mentale en psychologie

Reinforce the relationship between healthy bodies and healthy relationships in families!

Feminist Perspectives in Medical Family Therapy explores the groundbreaking collaboration of therapy and medicine to form a biopsychosocial approach to health care. In this book, feminists from several fields of study offer their ideas, research, and personal experiences to show how gender, culture, and other diversity issues affect medical treatment. This invaluable tool provides tips and suggestions for interdisciplinary medical teams working with patients' bodies, minds, spirits, and relationships simultaneously.

Medical family therapy is a relatively new specialty, and this book demonstrates its advantages and opportunities with an easy-to-understand, applicable approach. Clinicians, researchers, trainers, and students in medicine, social work, family therapy, psychology, and others can use Feminist Perspectives in Medical Family Therapy to examine more closely the medical issues that are most relevant to women and families. In this unique resource, you'll learn about:

• how both biological factors and environment create gender differencesand how they apply to women with depression
• how the issues of power and gender influence the experiences of male and female medical family therapists
• incorporating feminist principles in family medicine education
• the benefits of collaborative care to both physicians and patients in a family medicine setting
• using couples therapy in cases of vulvar vestibulitis syndrome
• how a woman's diagnosis of cancer affects the family system

Feminist Perspectives in Medical Family Therapy offers a variety of viewpoints from patients and providers, using hard data, interviews, practicum models, case examples, and reflections on personal experiences.

Index

The letter “n” in italics indicates notes.

ACTH (adrenocorticotropic hormone), 12

Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), 12

Agency issues

cancer and family life cycle, 102, 103, 107-108, 109, 110, 111, 113, 115

feminist medical family therapy perspective on, 129-130

patient power over illness, 130

social agent role of therapist, 134-135

American Academy of Family Physicians, 78

Anxiety disorders, 2

Behavioral science training, in family medicine, 60-62,

behavioral health clinic case example, 81-86, 86n.2

gender and biology focus

clinical implications, 17-18

emotion, importance of, 3-5

empowering women, 18

genetic indeterminism, 8-10

multilevel feedback framework, 10-12, 11fig

nature vs. nurture issue, 2-3

nurturing relationships and health, 5-7

plasticity of the brain, 7-8

summary regarding, 1, 18-19

Being-in-relation approach to clinical relationship, 58-59, 69-70

Biopsychosocial model of healing, 61, 67-70

collaborative care, 80

mind-body-spirit connection, xiii

vulvar vestibulitis syndrome, 95

Bischof, Gary H., 23

Brain plasticity, 7-8

Cancer. See Gender roles, family life cycle, and cancer

Collaboration

gender and power issues in, 24-27

See also Collaborative care in family medicine; Power and gender issues in collaborative relationships

Collaborative care in family medicine

behavioral health clinic case example, 81-86, 86n. 2

biopsychosocial systems model, 80

family medicine culture, 77-79

joint training, 80-81, 86n. 1

mental health services focus, 76-79

physician and therapist collaboration, 79-80

Somatoform Disorder, 85

summary regarding, 75-76, 86

Communion issues

cancer and family l...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface: Perspectives in Medical Family Therapy
• Gender and Biology: A Recursive Framework for Clinical Practice
• Power and Gender Issues from the Voices of Medical Family Therapists
• Popcorn Moments: Feminist Principles in Family Medicine Education
• A “Golden Girl” Tarnished: Amplifying One Patient’s (and Family’s) Voice Through Collaborative Care in a Family Medicine Setting
• Vulvar Vestibulitis Syndrome: Therapeutic Implications for Couples
• Gender Roles and the Family Life Cycle: The Case of Women with Cancer
• Reflections
• Index