Family relationships powerfully affect adherence to preventive care and medical treatment.

Chronic and/or life-threatening illness disrupts all aspects of family life; including:

• emotional well-being and mental health
• level of conflict and anxiety
• ability to solve problems
• daily routines and meaningful rituals
• family finances
• life cycle transitions

The clinic team provides a range of psychosocial services to families with one or more members with a physical illness. Meeting weekly, the team provides state of the art therapy to couples and families.

Our clinic helps families to cope with the burden from our current health care system, including:

• shorter hospital stays requiring greater medical expertise of family members
• increasingly complex medical technology
• break downs in communication between health care providers and family members.

Our clinic team develops and publishes concepts related to family systems and health, and creates training materials. We are available for staff training at agencies and hospitals.