2008
DOI: 10.1037/1091-7527.26.2.196
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Medical family therapy: A model for addressing mental health disparities among Latinos.

Abstract: The Latino population in the United States is growing at an exponential rate. As a medically underserved population, Latinos experience many health disparities, including those related to mental health. Current research suggests that Latinos in the United States are at high risk for problems such as anxiety, depression, somatization disorders, and substance abuse, yet, often these health needs go unmet. This article suggests that an effective method of reaching and treating more Latinos is through medical fami… Show more

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“…Although MedFTs' utility has been outlined in multiple venues with specific disease states and populations (Anderson et al 2008;Davey et al 2009;McDaniel et al 2001;Phelps et al 2009;Pratt et al 2009;Willerton et al 2008), no primary care model utilizing MedFTs in an integrated and/or consultant capacity with a non-targeted population, up until now, has been described in contemporary literature. It is worth mentioning that the unique and substantive contributions of this study are threefold; (a) an outline of how the provision of horizontally IPC services might look (Peek et al 2009;Peek 2011), (b) a description of how a MedFT might specifically function in providing those services, and (c) while other researchers have discussed broad models of and/or principals regarding integrated care (e.g., Baird 1998;Gerada et al 2000;Judd et al 2004;Manoleas 2008;Robinson and Strosahl 2009;Robinson and Reiter 2007;Strosahl 1996;Williams et al 2006), none have broken down the interactional sequence of events from initial patient contact to coordination of treatment to this degree of specificity.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 98%
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“…Although MedFTs' utility has been outlined in multiple venues with specific disease states and populations (Anderson et al 2008;Davey et al 2009;McDaniel et al 2001;Phelps et al 2009;Pratt et al 2009;Willerton et al 2008), no primary care model utilizing MedFTs in an integrated and/or consultant capacity with a non-targeted population, up until now, has been described in contemporary literature. It is worth mentioning that the unique and substantive contributions of this study are threefold; (a) an outline of how the provision of horizontally IPC services might look (Peek et al 2009;Peek 2011), (b) a description of how a MedFT might specifically function in providing those services, and (c) while other researchers have discussed broad models of and/or principals regarding integrated care (e.g., Baird 1998;Gerada et al 2000;Judd et al 2004;Manoleas 2008;Robinson and Strosahl 2009;Robinson and Reiter 2007;Strosahl 1996;Williams et al 2006), none have broken down the interactional sequence of events from initial patient contact to coordination of treatment to this degree of specificity.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…In each of the studies referenced below, the IC model was used to address specific mental health concerns or disease states such as depression (Reiss-Brennan et al 2006;Rollman et al 2006), anxiety (Price et al 2000), substance abuse (Gerada et al 2000), HIV (Zaller et al 2007), diabetes (Meulepas et al 2007;Phelps et al 2009), genetic disease (Rolland and Williams 2005;Smith and Harkness 2003), infertility (Burns 1999), or was used to target specific populations such as Latinos (Manoleas 2008;Willerton et al 2008), the elderly (Hegel et al 2002), rural populations (Judd et al 2004), and children (Pratt et al 2009;Valleley et al 2007). In these systems of care, the BHP's expertise is not solely in the treatment of psychological distress, but in the adherence to and improved completion of treatment regimens.…”
Section: Target Populationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…While another group noted that the practitioner's field did not matter as much as their skills in systemic orientation and thinking (Willerton et al, 2008), others like Marlowe (2011), contended that MedFT was an extension of MFT using the same systemic and relational lens but in a different context. Marlowe (2011) also stated that MFT was the professional home of MedFT drawing a very clear connection.…”
Section: The Case For Medft As a Subdiscipline Of Family Therapymentioning
confidence: 98%
“…In this study, the intervention was conducted by a psychologist and social worker where training in MedFT or family therapy was unknown. In another recent article on the application of MedFT to address mental health disparities among Latinos (Willerton et al 2008), the authors defined MedFT as ''…an attempt to better integrate the components of the BPS model in the delivery of mental health services through active collaboration of family therapists as members of health care teams' ' (p. 200). The former definition did not mention collaboration or the need for a family therapist, while the latter did not mention cognitive-behavioral and narrative methodologies.…”
Section: A Current Definitionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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