An article by my friend and colleague Laurie Charles. We are board members of The American Family Therapy Academy; her work with families around the world informs and expands my thinking about health across the lifespan. Our psychiatry residents will also benefit from her experience as they move on to practice psychiatry in the US and around the world. …
Category: Education
"We work as a collaborative team with the family to adopt a position of curiosity about what brought them to this moment in time." …
Coming Back Together: A guide for successful reintegration after your partner returns from military deployment, by Steven Sayers (New Harbinger publications, 2014) is a terrific book for spouses and partners of deployed service members and veterans. For many years, families of servicemen and women were given scant attention by those treating veterans with post deployment issues. As we understand more about the toll that long deployments take on their partners and children, and the difficulties of reintegrating into civilian life, …
