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KMID : 1039620200100040240
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Korean Journal of Family Practice
2020 Volume.10 No. 4 p.240 ~ p.247
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Understanding ‘Family’ for Family-Oriented Medical Care
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Kim Jong-Sung
Lee Sa-Mi
Park Joo-Sung
Oh Mi-Kyeong
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Abstract
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The clinical philosophy of family medicine is to provide warm-hearted health care to every human being as opposed to the modern subspecialized care called “inhuman medicine.” One of the strategies to implement this philosophy is comprehensive care. Comprehensive care uses the biopsychosocial model approach to health problems. Comprehensive evaluation and management of biopsychosocial dimensions is unique to family medicine, and it is difficult to achieve through subspecialized care. Family-oriented health care is a specific tool to practice comprehensive care based on the biopsychosocial approach. For family-oriented medical care, the family physician needs to understand “family” from two perspectives: structural and developmental. From the structural perspective, family is a group of small entities called holons. From the developmental perspective, family is an entity that keeps changing and developing through the family life cycle and events. Family-oriented care, in these two contexts, tries to understand and address the communication and behavior patterns of the family members.
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KEYWORD
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Family, Family Practice, Comprehensive Health Care, Health Care, Communication
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