Early Intervention with Multi-Risk Families: An Integrative Approach

Helping families who live in environments with multiple risk factors—including poverty, domestic violence, teen parenthood, mental illness, and substance abuse—requires that professionals and paraprofessionals work together to provide the best possible interventions. This much-needed book shows service providers how to help these multi-risk families by using an integrative model that brings together the most effective intervention techniques from a variety of theoretical approaches, parenting strategies, and innovative programs. Professionals will learn how to effectively engage parents if they are resistant to intervention, and they'll discover specific, practical ways to help parents become more self reflective about their parenting and empathetic toward their children examine and gain control over their defenses and ways of dealing with stress that are negatively influencing their parenting strengthen their sense of competence and social support develop positive perceptions of their