Family intervention is understood as a set of professional actions carried out when caring for minors by their parents or legal guardians is not sufficiently guaranteed.

Its purpose is to promote in all family members the acquisition of basic skills and behavioral habits necessary to overcome the crisis and vulnerability risk that has given rise to the intervention.

The work is carried out in the natural environment of coexistence to create in the family the ideal conditions for the development of all its members.

The General Objectives Of The Family Intervention Are The Following:

• Support the family system to reduce the risk indicators detected and promote protectors, thus ensuring adequate care for minors, covering their physical, emotional, cognitive, and social needs.
• Provide parents, tutors, or guardians with sufficient strategies and tools to acquire/improve their parenting skills.
• Encourage minors to acquire skills that can enhance their self-protection.
• Strengthen and establish normalized support networks and systems for the family.
• The specific objectives, however, are set in each intervention and depend on the type of intervention program in which the minor is included and the Case Plan stipulated based on the diagnosis made about and together with the family unit.
• Family Intervention Programs
• The Family Intervention Programs aim not only to end the behavior of child abuse/neglect but also to rehabilitate the family nucleus. Most of these programs agree that their care unit is the family as a whole, and they share objectives.

The Actions To Be Carried Out Are:

• To improve the family environment, with the collaboration of fathers and mothers and the child or adolescent himself.
• Eliminate, neutralize, or reduce risk factors by training fathers and mothers to meet the needs of their sons and daughters adequately.
• Eliminate the factors that negatively affect children and adolescents and their families personal and social adjustment.

Situations Of Moderate Lack Of Protection 

• Improve the family environment with the collaboration of parents, tutors or guardians, and the child or adolescent.
• Adequately satisfy the basic needs of the child or adolescent, preferably through normalized services and resources.
• Train fathers and mothers to adequately meet the needs of their sons and daughters, providing them with the technical and economic means that allow them to stay at home.
• Complement the performance of fathers and mothers.

The Basic Characteristics That They Present Can Be Specified In:

They are a Guaranteed and free provision of the Public System of Social Services.

They are a Community Resourcce and, therefore, the competence of the SSAPs.

They intervene in Any Unprotection for children as long as the consequences of the situation of vulnerability do not imply the departure of the child or adolescent from the family home or the risk of this occurring is high.

Its interventions are based on Collaboration with families, enhancing the capacities and abilities of fathers and mothers and providing them with the necessary support to care for their sons and daughters adequately.

They allow the Daily supervision of children and adolescents, avoiding or reducing the causes that lead to the appearance of situations of child vulnerability.

These are services and programs focused on families. However, They focus their intervention on children or adolescents , providing them with the necessary support resources to develop adequately despite living in a dysfunctional family environment.

The scope of application is Always in and from the family home, promoting the generalization of learned behaviors and based on the professional figure of family educators.

They have a Socio-educational nature (focused on teaching skills and strategies) and support the whole family, including all the people who are part of the family unit, not just the fathers and mothers.

They are Flexible in the frequency of the intervention (depending on the type of case and the moment in which the family is) And in the durationdepending on its evolution).…