FSH History |
FAMILIES, SYSTEMS, & HEALTH® A Brief History of the Families, Systems and Health and its Relationship with the In 1983, Donald Bloch, MD, founded Family Systems Medicine: A journal at the confluence of family therapy, systems theory, and modern medicine. The Journal’s subtitle reveals the relationship between the Journal’s birth and major changes in the conceptualization and delivery of health care. Two fields, Family Medicine and Family Therapy, both founded on the principles of systems theory, were emerging from their infancies. Family Systems Medicine provided a home to publish learning from this estuary of health care disciplines. The reader is referred to the inaugural editorial by Don Bloch where he eloquently describes the foundation of a journal, soon to become a field (Bloch, 1983).
In 2008, Alexander Blount, EdD became editor and the Journal enjoyed increased submissions, special issues on timely themes, and higher numbers of articles cited in the literature. In 2013 by Colleen T. Fogarty, MD, MSc and Larry Mauksch, M.Ed became the newest editors. A review of both inaugural editorials (Blount, 2009; Fogarty & Mauksch, 2013) reveals that the journal focus has not wavered but its scope is wider. FSH publishes research, literature reviews, health policy briefs, conceptual explorations, educational and clinical models, narrative essays and poetry at the intersection of family functioning, systems thinking and health and health care. References: Bloch, D. A. (1983). Family Systems Medicine: The field and the journal. Family Systems Medicine, 1(1), 3-11. Blount, A. (2009). A vision for Families, Systems, & Health. Fam Syst Health, 27(2), 129-130. Fogarty, C. T., & Mauksch, L. B. (2013). Inheritance and vision. Fam Syst Health, 31(3), 237-238. McDaniel, S., & Campbell, T. (1996). Expanding our Mission. Families, Systems, and Health, 14(1), 1-4.
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Pediatrics SIG Meeting
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