title: [Medical family therapy in children with chronic illness].
abstract: This article describes a medical family therapy approach to working with families of a child with a chronic medical illness. Medical family therapy combines the systemic paradigm of family therapy with the biopsychosocial paradigm of medicine to treat patients and families who are experiencing medical illness or disability. This article describes how family dynamics influence children's health and how children's health influences family dynamics. It then addresses special assessment issues, treatment issues, and collaboration issues for medical therapists when a child has a chronic illness.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung f. Psychosomatik u. Psychotherapie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.
authors.forename: W J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Doherty
authors.forename: S H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: McDaniel
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hepworth
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D002648:Child; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000523:psychology*; D005195:Family Relations; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D010348:Patient Care Team; D012803:Sick Role
vernacular_title: Medizinische Familientherapie bei Kindern mit chronischer Krankheit.