Working alliances not loggerheads: understanding and addressing dissonance between families and treating teams in older people's mental health.

CONCLUSIONS: To prevent and manage dissonance, its causes need to be identified and understood. Routinely 'thinking family' first, then 'knowing' and 'hearing' the family are crucial steps to enhancing communication with families. PMID: 25788570 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Australasian Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tags: Australas Psychiatry Source Type: research