A Family Systems Approach to Managing Chronic Illness
Daniel Tapanes, Brian Distelberg, Deepti Vaswani, Sean Fitzgerald, Ginger Simonton
- Practice
- Families & Health
About the Session
- 110-01 - A Family Systems Approach to Managing Chronic Illness
By Daniel Tapanes, Brian Distelberg, Deepti Vaswani, Sean Fitzgerald, Ginger Simonton
Abstract(s)
A Family Systems Approach to Managing Chronic Illness
MEND: Mastering Each New Direction is an intensive family systems approach aimed at helping families manage a pediatric chronic illness (CI). It has produced multiple empirical studies which shows its effectiveness in helping these families better manage the CI as well as reduce psychosocial impacts of the CI. In addition cost/benefit studies have shown that this program can reduce medical expenses for the family by 73% annually. This presentation will give an overview of the MEND model and highlight some of the resent data supporting its effectiveness.
Objectives
1.Gain insight into the unique experiences of children living with a serious illness and the family systems that support them. 2.Deepen their understanding and skills related to therapeutic interventions with families who have a child with a serious illness. 3.Identify opportunities to expand the scope of their MFT practice to include clients who are diagnosed with a medical illness.
