title: Understanding family behavior.
abstract: Understanding family behavior is not particularly difficult. However, it does require a broadening of orientation from individuals to families and from dyadic relationships to family system interactions. Physicians who make this adjustment in their diagnostic and therapeutic focus find that it gives them a better perspective on many health problems that might otherwise defy understanding and resolution.
mesh_terms: D001519:Behavior; D005190:Family; D005194:Family Practice; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations