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The MEND (Mastering Each New Direction; Tapanes et al. 2017) model provides behavioral health-oriented treatment for chronically ill pediatric and adult patients. It is a psychosocial family systems-based intervention, and therefore includes individual, peer group, and multifamily group interventions. The ultimate goal of MEND is to encourage the health-related quality of life (HRQL) of the patient and the family caregiving system. It focuses on inter- and intrapersonal processes within the patient and the family system and targets biopsychosocial stress response patterns as well as maladaptive illness narratives. MEND is delivered in a multidisciplinary setting and a true integration of mental and physical health care. To date, MEND has been delivered at the Loma Linda University Health Behavioral Medicine Center, which offers intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization formats of MEND. It began by serving pediatric patients and their families, and in...
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Distelberg, B., Tapanes, D. (2018). MEND Psychosocial Family Systems Program for Pediatric Chronic Illness. In: Lebow, J., Chambers, A., Breunlin, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15877-8_1094-1
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