Marriage and Family Therapy, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA.
Fam Process. 2014 Mar;53(1):22-32. doi: 10.1111/famp.12057. Epub 2013 Dec 24.
Recent research is providing family therapists with new information about the complex interaction between an individual's biological makeup and his/her social and physical environment. Family and social relationships, particularly during sensitive periods early in life, can affect a child's biological foundation. Additionally, stress during the early years can have a lasting effect on an individual's physical and mental health and contribute to the onset of severe mental illness. Community programs have been developed to intervene early with families who have an at-risk child to prevent or minimize the onset of mental illness including providing partnerships with at-risk mothers of infants to shape attachment relationships. Programs are also developing individual and family interventions to prevent the onset of psychosis. Practicing family therapists can incorporate emerging neuroscience and early intervention research and leverage the growing base of community programs to enhance the effectiveness and sustainability of mental health outcomes for clients. Additionally, family therapy education programs should broaden student training to incorporate the growing body of information about how family relationships affect individual mental health development.
最近的研究为家庭治疗师提供了关于个体的生物构成与其社会和物理环境之间复杂相互作用的新信息。家庭和社会关系，特别是在生命早期的敏感时期，会影响儿童的生物基础。此外，早年的压力会对个人的身心健康产生持久影响，并导致严重精神疾病的发作。已经制定了社区计划，以便及早干预有风险的儿童的家庭，以预防或尽量减少精神疾病的发作，包括与有风险的婴儿母亲建立伙伴关系，以塑造依恋关系。计划还在制定针对个人和家庭的干预措施，以预防精神病的发作。执业家庭治疗师可以将新兴的神经科学和早期干预研究纳入实践，并利用不断增长的社区计划基础来提高客户的心理健康结果的有效性和可持续性。此外，家庭治疗教育计划应扩大学生培训范围，纳入关于家庭关系如何影响个体心理健康发展的信息量不断增加的内容。
