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Advancing Health Equity in Medical Family Therapy Research

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Medical Family Therapy (MedFT) is grounded in systems theory, interdisciplinary collaboration, and patient advocacy and must also attend to issues of classism, racism, heteropatriarchy, and colonialism throughout the research process. The authors charge MedFT investigators to consider their personal, familial, and cultural histories with oppressed groups, the hierarchical nature of conducting research, and their personal and professional objectives in conducting research. In particular, this chapter will highlight strategies, reflective work, and social insights needed to conduct ethical, humble, and collaborative research with patients, families, and communities.

As doctors, it is our job to overcome these natural (biased) tendencies and make patients from all backgrounds comfortable. As members of the public, however, we must continue to be dissatisfied with the disparity in medical outcomes among different racial groups.

Shaw and Armin (2011, p. 254)

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Lewis, M., Myhra, L., Walker, M. (2014). Advancing Health Equity in Medical Family Therapy Research. In: Hodgson, J., Lamson, A., Mendenhall, T., Crane, D. (eds) Medical Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03482-9_17

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