Abstract
Patients often present symptoms and problems to a family physician that are largely related to stress experienced in the family context. Patients, though, seldom identify family stress as a source of the symptoms they are experiencing. The challenge for the family physician is to accurately assess the role that family stress plays in a patient’s symptoms and decide what interventions are most appropriate and effective. These tasks require the physician to, first, use a biopsychosocial approach to patients with particular attention to the role family may play in the patient’s problems; second, assess the family dynamics that may be contributing to the patient’s difficulties; and third, decide if the degree of family difficulty is amenable to primary care counseling or must be referred to a family-oriented mental health professional.
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Campbell, T.L., Seaburn, D., McDaniel, S.H. (1998). Family Stress and Counseling. In: Taylor, R.B., David, A.K., Johnson, T.A., Phillips, D.M., Scherger, J.E. (eds) Family Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2947-4_30
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