Name
Bridging Professions with Family Systems Thinking: Training the Next Generation of Integrated Care Clinicians
Description

This presentation aims to demonstrate how to leverage interprofessional training to achieve the following: 1.Equip diverse healthcare professionals—including those in behavioral health, medical, nursing, and other allied health fields—with the skills to apply a family/systemic framework effectively in team communication and patient care, recognizing and navigating varied professional "languages," conceptual "frames," and clinical foci. 2.Illustrate the practical implementation of interprofessional training approaches through three distinct examples: an inpatient rotation, interprofessional group supervision, and collaborative evaluation of family-framed skill development, highlighting strategies for fostering cross-disciplinary understanding. 3.Provide an experiential learning opportunity for participants to either develop skills in facilitating such interprofessional training (for educators, supervisors, preceptors, or teachers) or to actively engage in the training process (for students, trainees, residents, or clinician-learners), thereby enhancing their capacity for integrated communication and collaboration.

Content Level
All Audience
Tags
Innovations, Team-based care, Training/Supervision
Session Type
Concurrent
Objective 1
Identify rationale for interprofessional family-framed training
Objective 2
Describe ways participants can implement innovative training in their home settings
Objective 3
Practice a) how to facilitate the training for participants in educator, supervisor, preceptor, or teacher roles or b) how to engage in the training participants in student, trainee, resident, or learner roles
Content Reference 1

Ruddy, N. B., & McDaniel, S. H. (2024). A systemic approach to behavioral healthcare integration: Context matters (1st ed.). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000381-000

Content Reference 2

Podgorski, C. A., Anderson, S. D., & Parmar, J. (2021). A Biopsychosocial-Ecological Framework for Family-Framed Dementia Care. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, 744806. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.744806

Content Reference 3

Schiefer, R., Levy, S., & Rdesinski, R. (2021). A Family Systems Curriculum: Evaluating Skills and Empathy. Family Medicine, 53(1), 54–57. https://doi.org/10.22454/FamMed.2021.391849

Content Reference 4

Schuler, C., Agbozo, F., Ntow, G. E., Preusse-Bleuler, B., & Pfister, R. E. (2025). Family systems care approaches and methodologies for maternal, newborn and child health in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review protocol. Systematic Reviews, 14(1), Article 197. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-025-02951-8

Content Reference 5

Sgier, C., Hilpertshauser, M., Mezger, M., & Werren, M. (2025). Family Systems Care ‒ Expert consensus on ethics behind committed practice. Nursing Ethics, 32(7), 2371–2385. https://doi.org/10.1177/09697330251339060