Epistemis

Family Medicine and Systemic Approach | Family Medical Practice Treatise

Family Medicine · Clinical Specialties

How it begins

Una revisión profunda y de alta complejidad técnica que analiza el sistema familiar como el determinante fundamental de la salud individual. Este tratado detalla la transición paradigmática hacia la medicina biopsicosocial, las dinámicas de homeostasis patológica, las escalas estandarizadas de evaluación y las técnicas de intervención psicoterapéutica y de consejería breve desde el rol del médico de familia.

What it covers

  1. Historical Evolution and Paradigmatic Integration
  2. · The Break with Linear Reductionism
  3. General Systems Theory Applied to the Family
  4. · Operating Principles of Family Systems
  5. Theories of Human Development and Intergenerational Attachment
  6. · Attachment Styles and their Translation into Clinical Phenotypes
  7. Family Structure, Limits and Alliances (Minuchin)
  8. · Subsystems, Limits and Border Dynamics
  9. The Family Life Cycle (FVC): Transitions and Development Crises
  10. · The Stages of the Expanded Family Life Cycle
  11. Family Crises: Normative, Non-Normative and Stress Models
  12. · Taxonomy of Family Crises
  13. The Structured Family Genogram: Methodology and Interpretation
  14. · Standard Symbology and Genogram Construction Rules
  15. Family Function Screening Instruments
  16. · Smilkstein's Family APGAR (1978)
  17. Family Communication Dynamics and Double Bond
  18. · The Communication Typologies of Virginia Satir
  19. Specific Questionnaires and Clinical Inventories in Family Medicine
  20. · 1. The McMaster Family Assessment Device (FAD)
  21. Family Impact of Chronic Illness: Rolland Model
  22. · The Psychosocial Typology of Illness (Rolland)
  23. Somatization and Systemic Physiological Symptoms
  24. · The Family as a Collective "Psychophysiological Regulator"
  25. Family Grief, Loss and Adaptation Processes
  26. · The Tasks of Collective Family Grief
  27. Domestic Violence and Abuse: Detection and Containment
  28. · The Cycle of Violence by Leonor Walker
  29. The Family Interview in Primary Care Medical Consultation
  30. · The Technique of Circular Questions (Karl Tomm)
  31. Brief Intervention and Family Counseling (Counseling)
  32. · Doherty and Baird's Levels of Family Involvement
  33. Narrative Therapy and Collaborative Approaches
  34. · The Problem Externalization Technique
  35. New Structures and Contemporary Family Diversity
  36. · Mapping and Clinical Challenges of New Family Structures
  37. Pharmacotherapy, Compliance and Therapeutic Adherence
  38. · The Triadic Therapeutic Alliance
  39. Integration of Community and Intersectoral Care (COPC)
  40. · Social Determinants of Health (SDH) in Systemic Action

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Subject
Family Medicine
Category
Clinical Specialties
Type
Study Guide
Sections
40
Reviewed
2026-08-02
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