PhD, 1979, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Clinical Psychology)
BA, 1973, Duke University
(Psychology and Anthropology)

Susan H. McDaniel, PhD

Associate Chair, Department of Family Medicine

Dr. Laurie Sands Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine, Director of the Institute for the Family in Psychiatry

Contact Information:
University of Rochester Medical Center
Department of Family Medicine
Highland Family Medicine Center
777 South Clinton Avenue, Box HH37
Rochester, NY 14620

Email:
susanh2_mcdaniel@urmc.rochester.edu

Additional Education:
Fellowship, Public Health Service Primary Care Policy, 1998

Postgraduate Training, Center for Family Learning, New Rochelle, NY, 1981-1982

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Family Therapy, Texas Research Institute of Mental Sciences, Houston, TX, 1979-1980

Clinical Psychology Internship, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, 1977-1978

Overview

Susan McDaniel, PHD, is a family psychologist on our faculty. She received a PhD in 1979 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in clinical psychology, and was a fellow in family therapy at the Galveston Family Institute and the Texas Research Institute for Mental Services in Houston.

She enjoys the many philosophical, theoretical, and clinical commonalities between family therapy and family medicine and their integration into the practice of biopsychosocial medicine. Her special interests are in the family in family medicine and collaboration between mental health specialists and primary care practitioners.

Publications include books entitled Systems Consultation with Lyman Wynne and Timothy Weber, Family-Oriented Primary Care: A Manual for Medical Providers (1990 and 2003) with Tom Campbell, Jeri Hepworth, and Alan Lorenz, Counseling Families with Chronic Illness (1995), Integrating Family Therapy: Handbook of Family Psychology and Systems Theory (1995) with Richard Mikesell and Don-David Lusterman, The Shared Experience of Illness (1997) with Jeri Hepworth and Bill Doherty, A Casebook for Integrating Family Therapy (2002) with Don-David Lusterman and Carol Philpot, Primary Care Psychology (2004), and Family Therapy (2009).

Recent Publications

Click to see publications by Dr. McDaniel indexed in the National Library of Medicine's PubMed database.

Other Publications

Books
McDaniel, S.H., Campbell, T.L., Hepworth, J., & Lorenz, A. (2004) Family-oriented Primary Care, 2nd Edition. New York: Springer-Verlag. In Press.
Frank R, McDaniel SH, Bray J, & Helding M. (Eds.) (2004) Primary Care Psychology. American Psychological Association. Washington, DC.
Frankel R, Quill T, & McDaniel SH (Eds.) (2003) The Biopsychosocial Approach: Past, Present,and Future. Rochester, NY: U of Rochester Press.
McDaniel SH, Lusterman DD, Philpot, C. (Eds.) (2001) A Casebook for Integrating Family Therapy. Washington, DC, American Psychological Association Press.
Kroeger F, Hendrischke A, & McDaniel SH. (Eds.) (2000) Famlie, System und Gesundheit: Systemische Konzepte fur ein soziales Gesundheitswesen. Heidelberg, Germany: Carl Auer.
McDaniel SH, Hepworth J, and Doherty W. (1997) The Shared Experience of Illness: Stories of Patients, Families and their Therapists. New York: Basic Books.
Mikesell R, Lusterman DD, and McDaniel SH. (Eds.) (1995) Integrating Family Therapy: Handbook of Family Psychology and Systems Theory. Washington, D.C., American Psychological Association Press.
McDaniel SH. (1995) Counseling Families with Chronic Illness. New York, American Counseling Association.
McDaniel SH, Hepworth J, and Doherty, W. (1992) Medical Family Therapy. New York: Basic Books. Reprinted as Terapia Familiar Medica. Porto Alegre, Brazil, Artes Medicas, 1994.
McDaniel SH, Campbell TL, and Seaburn D. (1990) Family-oriented Primary Care: A Manual for Medical Providers. New York: Springer-Verlag.
Wynne L, McDaniel SH, and Weber T. (Eds.) (1986) Systems Consultation: A New Perspective for Family Therapy. New York: Guilford Press.

Book Chapters
McDaniel, S.H. (2004) Does DNA determine destiny? A role for Medical Family Therapy with genetic screening for breast cancer and other genetic illnesses. In: Russell Crane (Eds.) Families and Health: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Sage Publications. In Press.

McDaniel, S.H., Johnson, S.B., & Sears, S. (2003) Psychologists promote biopsychosocial health in families. In: S. Johnson, C. Goodheart, R. Rozensky & R. Hammond (Eds.). Psychology Builds a Healthy World. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Publications. In Press.
McDaniel, S.H., Hargrove, D.S., Belar, C., Schroeder, C., and Freeman, E. (2003) Recommendations for education and training in primary care psychology. In: R. Frank, S.H. McDaniel, J. Bray, M. Heldring (Eds.), Primary Care Psychology. Washington, D.C: American Psychological Association Publications. In Press.
Campbell, T.L., McDaniel, S.H., Cole-Kelly, K. (2002) Family issues in health care. In: R.B. Taylor (Ed.), Family Medicine, 6th Edition. New York: Springer-Verlag.
Ruddy N, McDaniel SH. (2001) Couples therapy and medical issues: Working with couples facing illness. In: A Gurman (eds.), Clinical Handbook of Couple Therapy, 3rd Edition.
McDaniel SH, Seaburn DB, Campbell TL. (2001) Family problems. In M. Smith & L. Shimp (Eds.) 20 Common Problems in in Primary Care. McGraw-Hill.
Speice J, Farley A, and McDaniel SH. (2000) Relational problems. In F. deGruy and P. Dickinson (Eds.) 20 Common Problems in Women’s Health Care. McGraw-Hill.
Campbell TL, McDaniel SH, and Seaburn, DB. (1999) Family health. In J. Noble (Ed.), Primary Care Medicine, 2nd Edition. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. CD-Rom Version.
Watson,W, and McDaniel SH. (1998) Assessment in transitional family therapy: The importance of context. In James Barron (Ed.) Making Diagnosis Meaningful. Washington, DC, American Psychological Association Publications.
McDaniel SH and deGruy F. (1996) Relational disorders in primary care, Handbook on Relational Diagnosis. F Kaslow (Ed.). New York: Wiley & Sons.

Original Articles
Shields CG, Epstein RM, Franks P, Fiscella K; Duberstein P, McDaniel SH, Meldrum S. Emotion language in primary care encounters; Reliability and validity of an emotion word count coding system. Patient Education and Counseling. In Press.
McDaniel SH. (2003). E-mail as an adjunct to systemic psychotherapy. Journal of Systemic and Strategic Therapies. 22:4-13.
Cary A, Goldberg B, & McDaniel SH. (2003). Consumer views of primary care. American Journal of Nurse Practitioners. 7:9-23.
McDaniel, S.H., Belar, C., Schroeder, C., Hargrove, D.S., and Freeman, E.L. (2002) A training curriculum for professional psychologists in primary care. Professional Psychology. 33(1):65-72.
Speice, J., McDaniel, S.H., Rowley, P., and Loader, S. (2002) A family-oriented psychoeducation group for women found to have BRCA Mutation. Clinical Genetics. 63:121-127.
Campbell, T.L., McDaniel, S.H., Cole-Kelly, K., Hepworth, J., & Lorenz, A. (2002) Family interviewing: A review of the literature in primary care. Family Mediciine. 34:312-318.
McDaniel SH, Speice J. (2001) What family psychology has to offer women’s health. The examples of conversion somatization, infertility treatment and genetic test. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice 32(1):44-51.
Campbell T, McDaniel SH. (2001) Family systems in family medicine, Clinics in Family Practice, 3:1:13-34.
McDaniel SH, and Speice J. (2001) What family psychology has to offer women’s health: The examples of conversion somatization, infertility treatment and genetic testing. Professional Psychology:Research and Practice, 32(1):44-51.
Watson W, and McDaniel SH. (2000) Relational therapy in medical settings: Working with somatizing patients. In-session: Psychotherapy in Practice, 56:8, 1037-1050.
McDaniel SH, Harkness J & Epstein R. (2000) Differentiation before death: Medical family therapy for a woman with end-stage Crohn’s Disease and her son, Am J of Family Therapy. In Press.
Reprinted in Sistemas Familiares, 15:2:55-72.
McDaniel SH, Hepworth J, and Doherty WJ. (2000) The shared emotional themes of illness. J of Family Psychotherapy. 10:1-8.
Campbell T, and McDaniel SH. (1998) Collaborative care for distressed high utilizers: Lessons from a clinical trial. Proceedings of AAMFT Research Conference. Washington, DC, American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.
Wood BL, McDaniel SH, Burchfiel K, and Erba G. (1998) Factors distinguishing families of psychogenic seizure patients from families of epilepsy patients, Epilepsia. 39:4:432-437.
Haley WE, McDaniel SH, Bray JH, Frank RG, Heldring MD, Johnson SB, Reed GM & Wiggins J. (1998) Psychological practice in primary care settings: Practical tips for clinicians. Professional Psychologist, 29:237-244.
Doherty WJ, McDaniel SH, and Baird MA (1996) Five levels of primary care/behavioral healthcare collaboration. Behavioral Healthcare Tomorrow, 5:5:25-27.