Resources

Resources for Professionals and the Community

PROFESSIONAL RESOURCES

Organizations

• Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, Family Committee.
• AFTA - American Family Therapy Academy
• APA - American Psychiatric Association
• American Association of Community Psychiatrists
• AGLP - Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists
• Mental Health America (formerly National Mental Health Association)
• NAMI - The National Alliance on Mental Illness

Journals

• Family Process: journal of family systems and change

Training Residents and Medical Students

• GAP Committee on the Family,  Berman E et al.  Family Skills for General Psychiatry Residents: Meeting ACGME Core Competency Requirements. Academic Psychiatry, 2005. View full article
• GAP Committee on the Family, Berman, E et al.  Family Oriented Patient Care Through the Residency Training Cycle.  Academic Psychiatry, vol 32 #2  March April 2008 p 111-118  View full article
• Heru AM & Drury L. Overcoming Barriers in Working with Families. Academic Psychiatry 2006: 30; 379-384 View full article
• Heru AM & Combrinck-Graham L The Family in Psychiatric Emergencies, in Emergency Psychiatry: Principles and Practices eds Glick RL., Berlin JS & Zeller SL. 2008 Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.
• Rait, D and Glick, I. A Model for Reintegrating Couples and Family Therapy Training in Psychiatric Residency Programs. Academic Psychiatry Vol 32 #2 March/April 2008 View full article

Forms for Family Oriented Clinics

Family Oriented Consultation Psychiatry

• Family Systems and Health (Journal)  http://www.apa.org/journals/fsh/description.html

Child Psychiatry

• American Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
• Josephson A et al. Practice Parameter for the Assessment of the Family AACAP Official Action. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 46:7 July 2007 View full article

Family Therapy Textbooks for psychiatrists working with families

• Keitner, GI, Heru, AM and Glick, ID. Clinical Manual of Couples and Family Therapy
  APPI Press, 2009
• Glick I, Berman E et al. Marital and Family Therapy 4^th edition. APPI Press 2000
• Gopfert M, Webster J, Seeman M. Parental Psychiatric Disorder: Distressed Parents and their families. 2^nd Ed. Cambridge Press 2004
• Heru A, Drury L. Working with Families of Psychiatric Inpatients. John Hopkins University Press 2007
• Perlmutter, R. A Family Approach to Psychiatric Disorders. APPI Press 1996
• Ryan CE, Epstein NB, Keitner GI, Miller IW, Bishop DS. Evaluating and Treating Families: The McMaster Approach. Routledge, New York 2005
• Rolland J. Families, Illness, and Disability: An Integrative Treatment Model. Basic Books, New York. 1994
• Snyder, D and Whisman, M. Treating Difficult Couples: Helping clients with coexisting mental and relationship disorders. Guilford Press 2003

SUPPORTING FAMILIES WITH MENTAL ILLNESS AND THEIR CHILDREN

FOR CONSUMERS: INFORMATION ABOUT FAMILIES AND MENTAL ILLNESS

• Young Carers  for children of psychiatrically ill parents
• S.A.F.E. Program:  Support and Family Education.  Family education program for people who care about someone with mental illness.
• NAMI Excellent resource for information and support groups
• APA: has an education section
• Families for Depression Awareness: http://www.familyaware.org

GLBT families

• Psychologists Affirming their Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Family
• Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists: position papers AGLP

Self Help Books

• Amador, Xavier.  I am not sick I don’t need help!  How to help someone with mental illness accept treatment.  Vida Press, NY 2007