Intervention with families at-risk: A Psychoeducational Approach

Abstract

The intervention with at-risk families has changed greatly over recent decades. Thus, an intervention mainly welfare and deficit has advanced to a prevention intervention that aims to strengthen and preserve families. In this approach are framed the parent psychoeducational programs, whose main characteristics are exposed in this paper. A sample of this kind of prevention intervention for parent is the family program coordinated by Social Services at Seville Council. “Training and Family Support Program” is for at-risk families who received a psychosocial intervention by Social Service for family preservation reason.

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Hidalgo García, M.V., Menéndez Álvarez-Dardet, S., Sánchez Hidalgo, J., Lorence Lara, B. & Jiménez García, L. (2009). La intervención con familias en situación de riesgo psicosocial. Aportaciones desde un enfoque psicoeducativo. Apuntes de Psicología, 27, 413-426.