Support
key lessons from research
- Intervention in
the family must respect and support the emotional bond between
parents and child.
- Support should
be provided to parents and children as people first.
- Support is most
effective when it is consistent, non-intrusive and non-threatening.
- Parents should
be enabled to participate in the making of decisions with a bearing
on their family life.
- Support is more
effective when aimed at the survival and maintenance needs of
families, followed by childcare tasks, than to modifying styles
of interaction within the family.
- Service providers
must be responsive to any informal supports already in place.
- Problems often
arise when a family in difficulty is forced to turn for help
to the very professionals with the main statutory responsibility
for child protection.
- Parents should
be made to feel in control of events.
- The attitude of
those who deliver the support is crucial in determining its effectiveness.
- A parent-child
relationship based on love and affection is more easily supported
than replaced.
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