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Families & Health

  • About

    • 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

    • Leadership

    Shelly Dalton

    Co-Chair

    Angela Hiefner

    Past Chair

    Misty Schmidt

    Chair-Elect

    Patricia Huerta

    Secertary

    Federico Mendez

    Early Career Professional
  • Webinars

    • Webinars

    • 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 family unit? This session introduces the concept of Family-Centered Single Session Therapy (FCSST)—a framework that blends the core strengths of SST with principles of family-centered […]

    • 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 family system. Participants will then explore multiple behavioral communication techniques and actionable strategies to dismantle stigmatizing attitudes and foster more empathetic, supportive interactions in both […]

    • 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 hear from professionals across disciplines: Your insights will help shape future efforts in scholarship, education, training, policy, and practice, ensuring that healthcare truly prioritizes families.

    • 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 authors of a recent chapter on ethics in healthcare settings for Medical Family Therapists in the new AAMFT Systemic Ethics Textbook. This is a great […]

    • 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 and the University Medical Center’s (UMC) Children’s Hospital emerged. UMC stakeholders wanted to develop a way to provide bed-side assessment and psycho education to patients […]

    • 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 population. It occurs across multiple settings including the workplace, media, families, and healthcare. When controlling for BMI, weight bias has been separately linked to multiple […]

    • 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 Arizona! Our Annual Proposal Match-Making Meeting allows for collaboration between members on conference proposal ideas. In addition to our match-making meeting, there will also be […]

    • 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 dying. Moreover, patients expect physicians to act without mistakes and be perfectionistic bulwarks. Nothing less is accepted. The result of long periods of absence, on-call […]

    • 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 and inclusive work environment leads to greater employee satisfaction, greater opportunity to innovate, and a variety of perspectives. Implementing DEI initiatives requires examining an organization’s […]

    • 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 resources. In this webinar, representatives from a regional health plan in Colorado and an evidence-based population health pediatric model, with providers in San Francisco, come […]

    • 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 gap, our interdisciplinary team of public health researchers, family scientists, mental health providers and a primary care physician, developed, validated and published a 10-item Family […]

    • 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 many health systems are currently navigating a return to in-person care delivery, it is clear that telehealth will remain an integral part of our healthcare […]

    • 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 relevant contextual influencers will contribute to more informed and better-defined health outcomes. In this webinar, the presenters demonstrated how to complete family-centered: contextual interviews, brief […]

    • 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 unpaid and often experience stress and health complications. Human service agencies and healthcare systems are incentivized to help patients by identifying and supporting their family […]

  • Resources

    • Resources