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The Medical Family Therapist as Transdisciplinary Trainer

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In an increasingly interconnected healthcare world, providers of many disciplines share many aspects of their respective skills and knowledge base. As medical family therapists (MedFTs) bridge the worlds of integrated care and family-oriented care, we are well positioned to train learners from other disciplines in these areas. This chapter compares the competencies required of MedFTs with the competencies of other healthcare disciplines and looks in-depth at the transdisciplinary training that MedFTs can offer in a family medicine residency and other training settings. Throughout the chapter, we include commentary from the point of view of different disciplines to highlight Behavioral Science education and MedFT roles.

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    Randall Reitz & Laura Sudano

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  1. Child Development & Family Relations, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA

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  2. Child Development & Family Relations, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA

    Angela Lamson

  3. Family Social Science Couple and Family Therapy Program, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA

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  4. School of Family Life, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA

    D. Russell Crane

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Reitz, R., Sudano, L. (2014). The Medical Family Therapist as Transdisciplinary Trainer. In: Hodgson, J., Lamson, A., Mendenhall, T., Crane, D. (eds) Medical Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03482-9_10

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