Syllabus
Practical courses & seminars
Lecturers
David Skorunka, M.D., Ph.D.
Seminars
Why collaborative family health care? Family as a partner in medical encounter. Family and health behavior. Family as social support and enhancement of health potential in family. Training in family-focused approaches for physicians and other medical professionals.
Family attachments and health.
Systemic concepts and interventions. What harms and what helps; non-blaming approach. Integrating systemic ideas ideas in clinical practice. Specific indications for evidence-based family therapy in medicine I.
Family therapy; an overview. Three collumn model. Levels of evidence for the models and mechanisms of therapeutic change in family therapy. Specific indications for evidence-based family therapy in medicine II.
When a family member has a mental illness. Psychoeducational and psychosocial programs in mental health. From family to community and wider social networks; international experience.
Annotation
The course introduces systemic perspective and family-centred care in medicine. The course reviews the basic assumptions and principles of systemic perspective in medicine and brings the patient´s family in focus.
It gives particular emphasis on medical family therapy, collaborative practice and integrated care in chronic illness including mental disorder and disability.