title: Introduction to medical family therapy.
abstract: The onset of illness and/or disability in children may also create difficulties at psychosocial levels--for the child, the family, her network and even in relations between them and the medical team. Medical family therapy, coupled with salutogenic theory and Marte meo offers specific ways of working with such difficulties so that the family and the medical team can work together in a mutually supportive manner.
authors.affiliation: Logos AB, Lerdala, Sweden. ingegerd.wirtberg@mariestad.mail.telia.com
authors.forename: Ingegerd
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Wirtberg
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D005195:Family Relations; D005196:Family Therapy; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009769:Object Attachment; D012944:Social Support