The Family Empowerment Program: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Working with Multi-Stressed Urban Families

被引:26
作者
Cleek, Elizabeth N. [1 ]
Wofsy, Matt [1 ]
Boyd-Franklin, Nancy [2 ]
Mundy, Brian [1 ]
Howell, Tamika J. [3 ]
机构
[1] Inst Community Living Inc, Program Design Evaluat & Syst Implementat, New York, NY USA
[2] Rutgers State Univ, Grad Sch Appl & Profess Psychol, New Brunswick, NJ 08903 USA
[3] Harlem United, Community Hlth Serv, New York, NY USA
关键词
Urban; Multi-stressed; Interdisciplinary; Parent advocate; Family intervention; terapia familiar; equipo interdisciplinario; urbano; asesores de los padres; coordinacion de la atencion; CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE;
D O I
10.1111/j.1545-5300.2012.01392.x
中图分类号
B849 [应用心理学];
学科分类号
040203 ;
摘要
The family empowerment program (FEP) is a multi-systemic family therapy program that partners multi-stressed families with an interdisciplinary resource team while remaining attached to a traditional mental health clinic. The rationale for this model is that far too often, families presenting at community mental health centers struggle with multiple psychosocial forces, for example problems with housing, domestic violence, child care, entitlements, racism, substance abuse, and foster care, as well as chronic medical and psychiatric illnesses, that exacerbate symptoms and impact traditional service delivery and access to effective treatment. Thus, families often experience fragmented care and are involved with multiple systems with contradictory and competing agendas. As a result, services frequently fail to harness the family's inherent strengths. The FEP partners the family with a unified team that includes representatives from Entitlements Services, Family Support and Parent Advocacy, and Clinical Staff from the agency's Outpatient Mental Health Clinic practicing from a strength-based family therapy perspective. The goal of the FEP is to support the family in achieving their goals. This is accomplished through co-construction of a service plan that addresses the family's needs in an efficient and coherent manneremphasizing family strengths and competencies and supporting family self-sufficiency.
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