PhD, 2001, The Union Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio (Psychology)

MS Ed, 1981, SUNY @ Brockport, Brockport, NY (Counseling)

ThM, 1975, Boston University, Boston, MA (Theology)

BA, 1972, Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA (Religion)

David Seaburn, PhD

Clinical Staff, Strong Family Therapy Services and Highland Family Medicine

Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Family Medicine

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

Additional Education:
Fellowship, National Research Services Award (NRSA), Department of Psychiatry, 2002-present

Overview

David Seaburn, PhD, (under construction)

Recent Publications

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Books 
Seaburn, D.B., Lorenz, A., Gunn, W., Gawinski, B.A., and Mauksch, L. 1996    Models of Collaboration: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals Working with Health Care Practitioners.  New York: Basic Books.

McDaniel, S.H., Campbell, T.L., and Seaburn, D.B. 1990    Family-oriented Primary Care:  A Manual for Medical Providers.  New York:  Springer-Verlag.

Peer Reviewed Papers

McDaniel, S.H., Seaburn, D.B., Campbell, T.L., Gawinski, B.A., Rousseau, S., Shields, C. and Ruddy, N. 2005 Collaborative care for distressed high utilizers of primary care: Innovations for patients reluctant about mental health services (under review)

Seaburn, D.B., Lyness, J.M., King, D., Eberly, S. Depression, Perceived Family Criticism and Functional Status among Older Primary Care Patients (in press American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry)

Seaburn, D.B., Morse, D., Beckman, H., McDaniel, S.H., Silberman, J., Epstein, R. 2005. Physician Responses to Ambiguous Patient Symptoms (in press Journal of General Internal Medicine)

Seaburn, D.B., McDaniel, S.H., Kim, S., Bassen, D. 2004. The Role of the Family in Resolving Bioethical Dilemmas: Clinical Insights From a Family Systems Perspective. Journal of Clinical Ethics, 15(2): 123-134.

Seaburn, D.B. and Erba, G. 2004 The Family Experience of "Sudden Health": The Case of Intractable Epilepsy. Family Process, (42)4: 453-468.

Seaburn, D.B. 2001. My father’s death II. Families, Systems and Health, 19(2): 211-220.

Seaburn, D.B. 2001. My father’s death  I. Families, Systems and Health, 19(1): 103-116.

Cole-Kelly, K., and Seaburn, D.B. 1999. Five areas of questioning to promote a family-oriented approach in primary care. Families, Systems and Health, 17(3):341-348.

Seaburn, D.B. 1998. The personal side of collaboration: Influences and effects. Families, Systems and Health, 16(1/2):165-171.

Epstein, R., and Seaburn, D.B. 1996. Simulated families in clinical teaching. Annals of Behavioral Science and Medical Education, 2(2):75-82.

Seaburn, D.B., Lorenz, A., Campbell, T.L., and Winfield, M. 1996. A mother’s death: Family stories of illness, loss, and healing. Families Systems, & Health, 14(2):210-221.

McDaniel, S.H., Campbell, T.L., and Seaburn, D.B. 1995. Principles for collaboration between health and mental health providers in primary care.  Family Systems Medicine 13(3/4):283-298.

Seaburn, D.B. 1994. Consulting to a health care system in transition: The case of hemophilia. Family Systems Medicine 12(2):183-196.

Seaburn, D.B., Gawinski, B.A., Harp, J., McDaniel, S.H., Waxman, D., and Shields, C. 1993. Family systems therapy in a primary care medical setting: The Rochester experience.  Journal of Marital & Family Therapy.  19(2):177-190.

Seaburn, D.B. 1993. Hubris and psychotherapy: A personal exploration.  VOICES: Journal of the American Academy of Psychotherapy, 29(2)79-86.

Seaburn, D.B., Lorenz, A., and Kaplan, D. 1993. The transgenerational development of chronic illness meanings, Family Systems Medicine 10(4):385-394.

McDaniel, S.H., Campbell, T.L., and Seaburn, D.B. 1991. Treating somatic fixation: A biopsychosocial approach.  Canadian Family Physician 37:451-456.

Botelho, R.J., Seaburn, D.B., and Harp, J. 1991. Isomorphism in resident consultations:  Implications for education and patient care.  Family Systems Medicine, 9(2):137-149.

McDaniel, S.H., Campbell, T.L., and Seaburn, D.B. 1989. Managing personal and professional boundaries:  How to make the physician's own issues a resource in patient care.  Family Systems Medicine, 7;4:1-12.

Seaburn, D.B. 1989. The ties that bind: Loyalty and widowhood.  The Psychotherapy Patient, 6:4, 1990.

McDaniel, S.H., Campbell, T.L., and Seaburn, D.B. 1989. Somatic fixation in patients and physicians:  A biopsychosocial approach.  Family Systems Medicine, 7;1:5-16.

Seaburn, D.B. and Harp, J. 1988. Sequencing: The patient caseload as an interactive system.  Family Systems Medicine, 6;1:107-111.

Seaburn, D.B. 1988. Treating `resistant' behavior:  Contributions of systems theory.  The Psychotherapy Patient, 4;3:51-60.

Seaburn, D.B. 1987. Transition boredom.  The Psychotherapy Patient, 3;3/4:119-128.

Seaburn, D.B. 1985. An epistemological tail...or tale.  Voices: Journal of the American Academy of Psychotherapists, 21;2:52-54.

Seaburn, D.B. 1985. When a client suicides. Voices.  Journal of the American Academy of Psychotherapists, 20(4):58-66.

Book Chapters

Campbell, T., Seaburn, D., and McDaniel, S. 2001    Family problems. In F. deGruy, P. Dickinson and Staton, E. (Eds.) 20 Common Problems in Behavioral Health. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Seaburn, D.B. 2001    Her right foot: Pain, integration & the biopsychosocial model. In S. McDaniel, D.-D. Lusterman, C. Philpot (eds.)  Integrating Family Therapy Casebook. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association Press. 

Gunn, W., Seaburn, D., Lorenz, A., Gawinski, B., and Mauksch, L. 2000    Collaboration in action: Key strategies for mental health providers.  In N.A. Cummings, J.L. Cummings, J.N. Johnson (eds.) Behavioral Health in Primary Care: A Guide for Clinical Integration.  Madison, CT: Psychological Press.

Campbell, T.L., Seaburn, D.B., and  McDaniel, S.H. 1999    Family health.  In J. Noble (Ed.) Primary Care Medicine, 2nd Edition.  Boston: Little, Brown & Co.  CD-Rom Version.

McDaniel, S.H., Campbell, T.L., and Seaburn, D.B. 1997    Principles of collaborative family healthcare. In A. Suchman, R. Botelho, P. Hinton-Walker (eds.) Partnerships in Healthcare: Transforming Relational Process. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press.

Seaburn, D.B. 1997    The denial of death: A case of stomach cancer.  In S. McDaniel, J. Hepworth & W. Doherty (eds.) The Shared Experience of Illness: Stories of Patients, Families and Their Therapists.  New York: Basic Books      

Campbell, T.L., Seaburn, D.B., and McDaniel, S.H. 1996    Family stress and counseling.  In R. Taylor (ed.) Family Medicine: Principles and Practice, 5th Edition, New York: W.B. Saunders Co.

Seaburn, D.B., McDaniel, S.H., and Campbell, T.L. 1996    Common family problems.  In J. Noble (ed.), Primary Care Medicine.  Boston: Little, Brown & Co.

Campbell, T.L., McDaniel, S.H., and Seaburn, D.B. 1996    The family system.  In M. Mengel and W. Holleman (eds.).  Patient, Doctor and Society.  New York: Plenum Publishers.

Campbell, T.L., McDaniel, S.H., and Seaburn, D.B. 1996    Family-oriented primary care.  In J. Noble (ed.), Primary Care Medicine.  Boston: Little, Brown & Co.  CD-Rom Version.

Seaburn, D.B. 1995    Language, silence, and somatic fixation. Counseling Families with Chronic Illness.  S. McDaniel (ed.).  New York:  American Counseling Association.

Seaburn, D.B., Landau-Stanton, J., and Horwitz, S. 1995    Core techniques in family therapy.  In R. Mikesell, D-D Lusterman, S. McDaniel (eds.).  Integrating Family Therapy: Handbook of Family Psychology and Systems Theory.  Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Press.

Campbell, T.L., Seaburn, D.B., and McDaniel, S.H. 1993    Family stress and counseling.  Family Medicine: Principle and Practice, (4th Edition).  R. Taylor (ed.). New York: W.B. Saunders Co.

McDaniel, S.H., Seaburn, D.B., and Campbell, T.L. 1992    Family-oriented care.  Textbook of Adolescent Medicine. E. McAnarney, R. Kreipe, D. Orr, & G. Comerci (eds).  New York:  W.B. Saunders Co.

Campbell, T.L., McDaniel, S.H., and Seaburn, D.B. 1992    Family systems medicine: New opportunities for psychologists, Family Health Psychology, T.J. Akamatsu (ed.), New York.: Hemisphere Publishing Corporation.

Seaburn, D.B. 1990    The ties that bind:  Loyalty and widowhood.  Psychotherapy and the Widowed Patient.  E.M. Stern (Ed).  New York:  Haworth Press.

Seaburn, D.B. 1989    Treating "resistant" behavior:  Contributions of systems theory.  Psychotherapy and the Self-Contained Patient.  E.M. Stern, (Ed)  New York:  Haworth Press.

Seaburn, D.B. 1988    Transition boredom.  Psychotherapy and the Bored Patient. E.M. Stern,  (Ed).  New York:  Haworth Press.

Commentaries

Seaburn, D.B. 2002    When you come to the fork in the road: A commentary, Families, Systems and Health

Seaburn, D.B. 2001    Forward to Basics: A Commentary. Families, Systems and Health, (19):

Book Reviews

Seaburn, D.B 2002    Epilepsy and the family, Richard Lechtenberg, Neurology.

Seaburn, D.B. 1993    Dying at Home, Andrea Sankar, Family Systems Medicine.  Family Systems Medicine, 10(4):449-451.

Seaburn, D.B. 1992    Family-based Palliative Care, Jane Marie Kirschling (Ed.), Family Systems Medicine, 10(1):122-125.

Seaburn, D.B. 1991    Clinical Stories and Their Translations, H.G. Stein and M. Apprey, Family Systems Medicine, 9(2):197-200.

Other publications

Seaburn, D.B. 2001    Sudden Health: The Experience of Families with a Member who has Surgery to Correct Epilepsy (invited and accepted) Report, Membership Journal of National Council for Family Relations (Dec. 02)

Seaburn, D.B. 2001    Clinical Update, Chronic Illness, American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, Washington, D.C.

Seaburn, D.B. 1997    Training for collaboration in health care: The challenge for family therapy, AFTA Newsletter, 68:10-12.

McDaniel, S.H., and Seaburn, D.B. 1992    The risks of men and women working together in family therapy, AFTA Newsletter, 48.

Seaburn, D.B. 1991    Family systems concept: A primer.  Invited contribution to Medical Encounters, Society of General Internal Medicine Newsletter, 8(1):10-11.

Seaburn, D.B. 1986    The client caseload:  A forgotten system.  Family Therapy News, 17:4.