title: Don Bloch award, 2013.
abstract: Frank deGruy, as recipient of the 2013 Don Bloch Award, presents a brief history of Bloch's contributions to the concept of collaboration in primary and mental health care. Bloch focused on the family as the unit of care for people with mental health problems, but saw something else: a person's psychological state was inextricably linked to his or her physical state. The health of one depended on the health of the other. Bloch started the journal that is now called Families, Systems, & Health, and then decided there was a need for an organization, which became the Collaborative Family Health care Association.
authors.affiliation: University of Colorado.
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Degruy
mesh_terms: D001363:Awards and Prizes; D005194:Family Practice / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D008603:Mental Health; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States