"Imagine a clinical world without family systems thinking": Response

Replies to comments made by B. J. Jacobs (see record 2018-27937-015) on the authors' original editorial (see record 2017-56601-001). While Fogarty and Mauksch agree with Dr. Jacobs that reviving the Doherty and Baird Levels of family involvement would be helpful, as would training clinicians to engage family members as partners in care, Fogarty and Mauksch want to reemphasize that helping trainees recognize systemic thinking and learn systemic problem solving is a necessary precursor to any form of family focused action. Clinicians should pursue shared decision-making partnerships with patients and their family members. (PsycINFO Database Record