About
You’re Invited!
This SIG is open to all current CFHA members. Learn more about joining.
To promote a family-centered approach within CFHA and other healthcare organizations and to foster collaboration in scholarship, education/training, practice, and policy.
Leadership
Shelly Dalton
Angela Hiefner
Misty Schmidt
Patricia Huerta
Federico Mendez
Webinars
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F&H SIG Webinar: Beyond the Individual: Reimagining Single Session Therapy w/ a Family-Centered Lens
Single Session Therapy (SST) has shown promising results in improving mental health outcomes in fast-paced, resource-limited settings. But what happens when we move beyond the individual and engage the entire […]
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Families & Health SIG Webinar: From Awareness to Action: Behavioral Strategies to Address HIV Stigma
This session will begin with a concise overview of HIV epidemiology, transmission facts, and the origins of stigma, setting the stage for understanding its impact on patient care and the […]
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Families & Health SIG Community Discussion: Advancing Family-Centered Care in Healthcare Systems
Join CFHA’s Families & Health SIG for a collaborative conversation about the health system-level changes needed to better support family-centered care. As part of CFHA’s broader initiative, we want to […]
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Families & Health SIG Meeting – Ethical Practice in Integrated Care: Expert Panel
We hope you will join us to learn from an expert panel on the ethics of integrated care. Drs Jennifer Hodgson, Tai Mendenhall, Angela Lamson, and Lisa Tyndall are the […]
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Families & Health SIG Meeting: Integrated Behavioral Health Startup Program
In 2018, when a call to action for PTSD prevention and the need to expand behavioral health support was recognized at a systemic level, a partnership between Texas Tech University […]
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Families & Health SIG Meeting: Weight Stigma
Weight bias, the social devaluation, discrimination, and prejudice towards those perceived to be overweight or obese, is a life-threatening health risk and a prevalent experience for much of the global […]
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February 2024 Families and Health SIG Meeting
At our February meeting, the FHSIG hosted our Annual Conference Proposal Match-Making Meeting. Last year’s match-making meeting contributed to the 40+ family-centered conference presentations presented at the 2023 conference in […]
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Medical Families at Risk: A Psychotherapeutic Approach to Care for Physicians and their Families
Physicians’ emotional life is challenging. On top of the extra demands that Covid brought, the medical culture requires physicians to work long hours, to be exposed to patients suffering and […]
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Going Beyond Patient- and Family- Centered Dementia Care: The Need to Explore the Multisystemic Family Terrain
Using a multisystemic family model, this presentation will illustrate the value of screening and assessing family processes to promote optimal dementia care. This session will also address professional roles and […]
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Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging: Implementing DIB Initiatives in the Work Environment
In recent years, implementation of diversity, inclusion, and belonging (DIB) initiatives is a pattern that has been in the forefront of most business strategies. The practice of creating an diverse […]
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Creative Funding Strategies for Family-Based Models of Care: Payer and Provider Perspectives
Clinicians and payers alike have historically struggled to extend beyond patient-centered care to engage family members in ways that are meaningful, cost-effective, and efficient with use of time and staffing […]
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COVID-19 Pandemic: A Multisystemic Approach to Address Family and Healthcare Provider Challenges
The COVID-19 pandemic has proven to have pervasive impacts on all aspects of family life. Some of these impacts are drastically increasing as reports across the world are sounding the […]
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Assessing Family-Level Processes, Lifestyle, Resources, and Social Capital in Primary Care Settings with the Family Health Scale
Primary care is an ideal setting to deliver preventative, family-based interventions. However, until recently a standard instrument to assess family health in clinical settings did not exist. To fill this […]
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Equipping Healthcare Providers to Work Systemically with Patients & Families During Telehealth Visits
In March 2020, family- and relationally-focused biopsychosocial (BPS) health services in the U.S. transitioned to telehealth as the primary mode of health service delivery across the continuum of care. While […]
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Families & Context in Primary Care
Family-centered care maintains mutually beneficial partnerships between healthcare providers, patients, and patients’ families in treatment planning, delivery of services, and outcomes. Eliciting patients’ and families’ perspectives on healthcare priorities and […]
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Family Caregiver Stress: How to Measure it and Why
Nearly 1 in 4 Americans provide caregiving for a loved one, a service estimated at $470 billion per year and 21 work hours per week. Many of these caregivers are […]
Resources
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Position Statement on Behavioral Science and Interprofessional Healthcare Integration in Family Medicine Residency
This position statement from the CFHA Integrated Care Behaviorists in Family Medicine Residency Workgroup highlights the essential role of Behavioral Science Faculty in preparing residents for today’s integrated, team-based primary […]
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Family Systems in Healthcare Training Opportunities
Medical Family Therapy Training Opportunities: Coursework and Internships Antioch University – New England Coursework Jefferson University Coursework Loma Linda University Coursework/Internship Mercer University Coursework/Internship Nova SouthEastern University Coursework Ohio State […]
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Family Systems in Health Policy
Health Systems & Payers Plan and Provider Opportunities to Move Toward Integrated Family Health Care Strengthening Family Caregiving Programs and Policies Through Collaboration: Lessons from Six States Towards a Universal […]
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Family Systems in Healthcare Research
Overview The Development of and Evolution of Family Therapy Research: It’s Impact on Practice, Current Status, and Future Directions Medical Family Therapy Research: Part 1 Medical Family Therapy Research: Part […]
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Cultural Competency & Diversity
Diversity, Inclusion, Excellence, and the Law in Higher Education American Association for the Advancement of ScienceAssociation of American Colleges and Universities Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Excellence Handbook of Diversity and […]
