While mental health services are increasingly encouraged to engage in family-focused
practice, it is a poorly understood term. The aim of review was to synthesize evidence on the
concept and scope of family-focused practice in adult and child and youth mental health
care settings. An integrative literature review method was used. Electronic databases were
systematically searched between 1994–2014. In 40 included articles, family-focused
practice was conceptualized variously depending on who comprised the" family," the family …

While mental health services are increasingly encouraged to engage in family-focused
practice, it is a nebulous and poorly understood term. The aim of this paper was to examine
and synthesize evidence on the concept and scope of family-focused practice in adult and
child and youth mental health care settings. An integrative literature review method was
used. Medline, Embase, CINAHL, PsycInfo and Proquest electronic databases were
systematically searched for abstracts published in English between 1994-2014. Data were …