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Family Therapy in Public Sector Settings

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Family interventions improve outcome for patients with psychiatric illnesses (Heru 2006). This chapter identifies key aspects of evidence-based family interventions and shows, through case examples, how to implement family-based treatment in public sector settings. Family interventions develop family resilience, promote individual recovery, and prevent the development of illness. Resilient families have better outcomes for medical illness (Weihs et al. 2002) and psychiatric illness (Tienari et al. 2004; Miller et al. 2008; Keitner et al. 1995; Roberts et al. 2009).

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado, Denver, 1400 Jackson Street, Denver, CO, 80206, USA

    Alison M. Heru MD

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  1. Dept of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, The St. Luke's & Roosevelt Hospitals Columbia University College of Physician, New York, USA

    Hunter L. McQuistion

  2. Center for Public Service Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

    Wesley E. Sowers

  3. New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, USA

    Jules M. Ranz

  4. University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, USA

    Jacqueline Maus Feldman

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Heru, A.M. (2012). Family Therapy in Public Sector Settings. In: McQuistion, H., Sowers, W., Ranz, J., Feldman, J. (eds) Handbook of Community Psychiatry. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3149-7_21

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