Catherine Van Fossen, M.S., Keeley J. Pratt, Ph.D., Robert Murray, MD, Joey Skelton, MD, Author at Integrated Care News

September 3, 2020 by Catherine Van Fossen, M.S., Keeley J. Pratt, Ph.D., Robert Murray, MD and Joey Skelton, MD

A Tool for Medical Providers to Evaluate Family Functioning

3 minute read Reprint. Original post available here. Family functioning is one way to measure how a family meets its physical and psychological needs; in other words, it quantifies the family’s emotional environment1,2. Family functioning has been found to be associated with chronic physical and mental illness in children3–6; however, family functioning is not consistently […]

November 1, 2018 by Catherine Van Fossen, M.S., Keeley J. Pratt, Ph.D., Robert Murray, MD and Joey Skelton, MD

A Tool for Medical Providers to Evaluate Family Functioning

Family functioning is one way to measure how a family meets its physical and psychological needs; in other words, it quantifies the family’s emotional environment1,2. Family functioning has been found to be associated with chronic physical and mental illness in children3–6; however, family functioning is not consistently measured in clinical health care settings or large […]