Family and childhood at psychosocial risk

Abstract

In this article we have proposed the following: (1) The identification of the main socio-psychological risk factors in family and infancy and the description of the principal variables that we found (parental deprivation/abandonment, environmental deprivation, family negligence, ill treatment and prolonged institutionalization), using, from a multi-causal interactive model, our conceptualization of socio-familiar deprivation. (2) The analysis of social response to psycho-social risk juveniles, which has developed from institutionalization as the only response to the creation of diversified care alternatives, that include preventive care in the socio-familiar environment. (3) The establishment of theoretical bases for intervention in the family and in infant-adolescence in'a psycho-social risk situation, gathering together the principal findings of family, comunity, and psycho-social models. And (4) from the Psycho-social Intervention model, following the relevant analysis of means and necessities, the proposal of socio-familiar intervention programmes that counteract the identified risk factors.