Working with the families of children in care

Abstract

If at the start of day-care or residential care of a child or adolescent it is acknowledged that a request for help does not equal assessment and diagnostics - at least not for some time - then it follows logically that there needs to be a wide variety of parent guidance. In this article first the attunement between requests for help and defining goals for intervention is discussed in case of a multi-problem child. Next, the various methods of working with parents and/or remaining nuclear family in combination with intensive care or treatment of a child are discussed. Sometimes certain methods of working result logically from one another and growth is being marked. Sometimes a certain method of working is the most feasible one in a given situation and should be regarded as static.