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Insurance and Family Therapy
Author(s) -
SONNE JOHN C.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
family process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1545-5300
pISSN - 0014-7370
DOI - 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1973.00399.x
Subject(s) - family therapy , reimbursement , psychopathology , medical diagnosis , psychology , accident insurance , psychiatry , psychotherapist , medicine , actuarial science , health care , business , pathology , economics , economic growth
The advent of recent theories of family structure and socially shared psychopathology that have found expression in the practice of family therapy are forcing a re‐examination of concepts of individual diagnoses in which the symptoms of an individual family member are viewed as a possible communication from a disturbed family system. In seeking reimbursement for family therapy through health and accident insurance, a problem is occurring because the traditional method of payment is based on the establishment of individual psychiatric diagnoses, and very few companies will insure a family for family therapy. This paper examines the three‐part system: insurers, family, and helping professions in relation to the significance of the conflict between traditional concepts of individual psychopathology and recent concepts of socially shared family psychopathology.