NCJ Number
149914
Date Published
1994
Length
182 pages
Annotation
This book is directed at practitioners and administrators providing home-based family treatment, students who want training in family preservation, and others working with high- risk families in other family-focused programs. The book encourages its readers to recognize the adaptability of the family preservation approach across the juvenile justice, child welfare, education, health, and mental health systems.
Abstract
Following an historical overview of the family preservation movement, the authors outline a pragmatic approach to family-centered assessment and treatment that is designed to empower families to change. The book defines characteristics of high-risk families and discusses the types of agencies involved with families at risk. Treatment strategies that are examined here include reparenting, putting parents in charge, building hope in families, the ecological systems approach, problem solving and conflict resolution skills, confrontation, and multidimensional interventions. Special attention is paid to intervening with families characterized by sexual or physical abuse, HIV or AIDS, homelessness, domestic violence, and substance abuse.