Does family therapy need psychiatrists? Do psychiatrists need family therapy?
BACKGROUND
While many sufferers from mental health problems require a therapeutic approach that can see the patient in his systemic context without losing sight of pathology that is located in the individual, few in fact receive such treatment.


METHODS
The therapy of an individual and of his family is presented by way of illustration of the above point.


CONCLUSIONS
Clinical experience suggests that trainees in psychiatry (and other mental health professions) should be expected to reach a level of proficiency in family therapy at least equal to that expected of them in the various individual approaches; benefits would accrue to themselves, to the profession, to family therapy and, most importantly, to their patients.
Stawski
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Child and Adolescent Out-patient Department, Abarbanel Psychiatric Hospital, Bat Yam, Israel.
Velkes
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D000293:Adolescent; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000379:methods*; D011614:Psychotherapy, Brief / Q000379:methods; D012563:Schizophrenia, Paranoid / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012920:Social Behavior Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D016896:Treatment Outcome