2001 21st Annual Conference on Families and Health

	Thursday & Friday Session Abstracts Back to Conference on Families and Health Schedule Sunday, March 4 Seminars 24 29 8:30 10 am S24: Music, Meditation, and MiraclesPracticing a Path to Healing Sheri Angstadt, MSW, Julie Celeberti, MD, Warren Hospital, Phillipsburg, NJ Multiple studies have shown that reducing anxiety enhances outcome in a variety of acute and chronic med-ical and stress-related maladies. In this seminar, we will demonstrate a group format using music, meditation, and cognitive techniques that enables patients to improve their coping abilities via creation of a personal spiritual path. S25: Using Popular Film to Teach About Families at the End of Life Kathy Cole-Kelly, MS, MSW, MetroHealth Family Practice, Cleveland, Ohio; Thomas Campbell, MD, University of Rochester Popular films can be used to trigger tapes for teach-ing physicians how to deal with common problems faced by families at the end of life. Using a clip from a popular movie, participants will assume the role of the family phy-sician and do a family assessment and planned intervention (Level 4). The intervention will be role-played by the group, and participants will have an opportunity to prac-tice teaching, facilitating, and clinical skills. S26: Mission, Culture, Community, and All That JazzThe Spirituality of Health Care Organizations and Implications for Family Practice and Training Frederic Craigie, PhD, Dartmouth Medical Center, Augusta, Me; Patricia Cole, MD, Hennepin County Family Practice, Minneapolis; Robert Hatch, MD, MPH, University of Florida The spirit or soul of primary health care organizations plays a key role in the ecology of healing. This seminar will present information on spirituality and organizational life from management and health care arenas and examine qual-ities of spirit in health care organizations and the programs and processes that promote them. S27: Treating the Somatizing PatientBeginning With the Blues and Ending With a Healing Rhythm Norman Rasmussen, EdD, LP, David Agerter, MD, Mayo Medical School This session will review the extant literature on interventions and management strategies used by family physicians to treat the somatizing patient. Participants will learn to use Linking Therapy, which is a brief physician-based intervention designed to treat the somatizing patient in the primary care clinic. The goal is to create a pleasant and healing rhythm for the participant by estab-lishing a comfortable fit that results from integrating her/his personality type, experiential background, and practice style in effectively treating and personally coping with this challenging group of patients. S28: Life Cycle of the Doctor-Patient Relationship Alan Lorenz, MD, University of Rochester; David Stoller, MD, Port Gardner Family Medicine, Everett, Wash; Julie Schirmer, MSW, Maine Medical Center, Portland We are trying to understand the life cycle of the doctor-patient relationship by videotape interviewing clinicians that have been in the same practice at least 25 years. Come see how we are doing the project, what we have learned, and help us to do it better. S29: Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water Integrating the Elements of Human Behavior Teaching Into Primary Care Janie Vestal, MD, Paul Thomlinson, PhD, Janice Myers, MS, LPC, Bill Oliver, MS, LPC, Cox Family Practice Residency, Springfield, MO Integrating the elements of effective teaching and patient care is challenging. We offer one model of com-bining a ready learner with patients, behaviorist, and family medicine faculty. Initial evaluation will be reviewed, followed by group discussion of implementation ideas in other settings. A context of music and movement offers participants continuity with the conference theme. Lecture-Discussions 12 13 8:30 10 am L12A: Cultural Implications When Providing Health Care to African-American Patients Edith Fresh, PhD, Cecil Bennett, MD, Morehouse School of Medicine Cultural values can impinge upon, or become obstacles in, the delivery of health care to multicultural families. The unique characteristics and historical context of African-american families will be discussed relative to the implications when attempting to join or to engage with these families. L12B: Cultural Competence Training in Family Practice: A Consultation/Teaching Experience Kathryn Fraser, PhD, Selena Webster-Bass, Halifax Medical Center, Daytona Beach, Fla Two residency programs discuss their collaborative efforts of developing and implementing an innovative cul-tural competency curriculum for first-year family practice residents. A consultant conducted a 2-hour cultural com-petence workshop and subsequently a half day of clinic with each resident. Residents reported that the training increased their awareness of cultural competency issues. L13A: Patients' Stories and Listening HealersFrom Mythology to Physiology Mark Marnocha, PhD, Robin Price, MD, Deborah Schultz, MD, Fox Valley Family Medicine Residency, Appleton, Wis The current strands of physician-patient communication research, medical humanities, and the impact of psy-chosocial themes on physiologic processes suggest a new paradigm. The most recent trends reaffirm more ancient observations and principles. This session will review intri-guing current research data on emotions and healing and will look at the evolving roles of the caregiver, noting con-nections with mythology and other narrative traditions. L13B: Melting Frozen MomentsTeaching Residents to Improvise Healing Strategies Barbara Weathersby, MSW, Nathalie Szilagyi, MD, Mountain Area Health Education Center, Asheville, NC Even the warmest physician has experienced "frozen moments" with patients and families. Frozen moments are frustrating encounters when nothing seems to happen! This session describes how frustration can foster creativity and yield unusual strategies for healing. Participants are invited to create their own unusual strategies, improvising as they role-play.