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This book presents a family-oriented approach to primary care, including the biopsychosocial assessment of the family, the health care of families through the life cycle, and a family-oriented approach to specific medical problems. Implementing this family-oriented approach in daily clinical practice raises broad ethical concerns (“Are family-oriented interventions ethical?”) and specific practical issues (“How will I find the time? Who will pay for this approach?”). These are important issues that we will address in this chapter, starting with common ethical dilemmas, then discussing how to maintain a family-oriented approach when seeing individual patients, and finally presenting specific practical recommendations for establishing a family orientation in primary care.
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McDaniel, S.H., Campbell, T.L., Seaburn, D.B. (1990). Family-Oriented Primary Care in the Real World. In: Family-Oriented Primary Care. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2096-9_20
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