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Interventions with families: preparing the way for teaching parenting skills
Author(s) -
De'Ath Erica
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.52
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1467-6427
pISSN - 0163-4445
DOI - 10.1046/j..1982.00589.x
Subject(s) - dysfunctional family , intervention (counseling) , parenting skills , psychological intervention , context (archaeology) , psychology , life skills , action (physics) , developmental psychology , family therapy , medical education , pedagogy , psychotherapist , medicine , psychiatry , paleontology , physics , quantum mechanics , biology
The purpose of this paper is twofold. Firstly, to consider an ecological model of the system network of any one family, and the idea of intervention as education, prevention and support. A community approach of primary prevention, secondary prevention and administrative action is outlined. Secondly, briefly to consider whether the study of dysfunctional families and intervention with referred families has provided us with guidelines for necessary parenting skills for functioning family living; assumptions about whether such skills can be taught; and, at what stage of the family life cycle, in what context and by whom such enabling teaching takes place.