title: Working with families.
abstract: Family therapy is ideally undertaken by general practitioners who are in a unique position as providers of continuing care and family care. It is important for them to work together with families in the counselling process and to avoid the common pitfalls of working in isolation and assuming personal responsibility for changing the family.
authors.affiliation: Section of Teachers, College of Family Physicians, Canada, Richmond Hill, Ontario.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bader
mesh_terms: D003376:Counseling; D005190:Family; D005194:Family Practice; D005196:Family Therapy; D006801:Humans; D010353:Patient Education as Topic