Systemic Intervention with Multi-challenged Families

Recommended Prerequisites

N/A

Teaching Methods

Project Based Learning, lectures, case analyses, role-play.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course, the student should be able to: 

- recognise the differences between a vision focused on the family's deficits and a vision focused on the multiple challenges it faces; 

- recognise and apply the fundamental principles of collaborative work;

- identify the various requests/clients associated with each intervention request;

- truly listening to the family, helping them to recognise their preferred vision of life, their strengths and weaknesses, as well as the type of help they have received from the primary and secondary networks;

- co-construct, with the family, the objectives of the intervention;

- identify the type of intervention best suited to the defined objectives, the family's characteristics and the ecosystem's resources;

- plan the intervention to be carried out, both in terms of the modalities to be used, as well as the timetable, the intervention locations and the participants.

Work Placement(s)

No

Head Lecturer(s)

Madalena Moutinho Alarcão Silva

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Role-play: 20.0%
Mini Tests: 30.0%
Project: 50.0%

Bibliography

Alarcão, M. (2002). (des)Equilíbrios familiares (2ª ed). Quarteto.

Fraenkel, P. (2006). Engaging families as experts: Collaborative family program development. Family Process, 45(2), 237-257

Madsen, W. (2007). Collaborative therapy with multistressed families (2^nd edition). Guilford.

Madsen, W. (2011). Collaborative helping maps: A tool to guide thinking and action in family-centered services. Family Process, 50(4), 529-543.

Melo, A. T., & Alarcão, M. (2011). Avaliação em situações de risco e perigo para as crianças. Um roteiro organizador. Análise Psicológica, 3, 451-466.

Melo, A. T., & Alarcão, M. (2011). Integrated Family Assessment and Intervention Model: A collaborative approach to support multi-challenged families. Contemporary Family Therapy, 33(4), 400-416.

Sousa, L., & Ribeiro, C. (2005). Perceção das famílias multiproblemáticas pobres sobre as suas competências. Psicologia, 19(1-2), 169-191.