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. To help program administrators ensure high-quality early intervention, this book demonstrates how to plan and set up service delivery systems within and across individual programs, structure and train effective teams, develop sound organizational policies, and understand and address the effects of burnout and vicarious trauma on staff members.