title: [The family physician and his "patient with family". Significance of the family system in treatment of patients in general practice].
abstract: From a systemic perspective the general practitioner and the patient form a "medical-therapeutic system", which has the same features as other social systems. As the patient is also a part of his family system there are (more or less detectable) interactions between these two relevant systems as well. Compliance-from a systemic point of view-is not only an indication of the functioning of the "medical-therapeutic system" but also a result of those interactions between two relevant systems. Clinical trials show that with his interventions the general practitioner helps in solving problems of difficult, blocked family relationships with the goal of an adequate coping strategy for all involved family members.
authors.affiliation: Psychiatrische Poliklinik, Universitätsspital, Bern.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Hofmann
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology; D017281:Cost of Illness; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D005194:Family Practice; D005196:Family Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D012803:Sick Role