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Essay on Liabilities in Family Preservation
Social work is increasingly emphasizing the importance of the family as a unit of attention, whether trying to ameliorate significant dysfunction or enhance wellness or resilience. Areas of social work intervention include family centered practice, family-based services, family preservation, family practice, family support services, family strengths approach, community-centered family services, family problem solving, and social work with families, and family health social work practice. Space limitations within this chapter prevent a detailed contrast of the models. The main point is that there is extensive attention to how social workers can intervene with families to navigate episodes of illness or facilitate wellness.
Other disciplines have also devoted much effort to family health practice. One intriguing example is the blending of medicine and family therapy, especially the family health and illness cycle model of William J. Doherty and Thomas L. Campbell (Osgood D. W., Johnston L. D., O'Malley P. M., and Bachman J. G., 1988). Concurrently, family nursing is developing increasingly elaborate models for family wellness and health promotion.
Family Preservation liability comprise of four standards caveat emptor, negligence, strict liability, and absolute liability. And these standards have values, beliefs, and attitudes that influence the strategies used as guidelines for family preservation practice in general. They include:
• Focusing on the family as the unit of help or attention;
• Respecting each family's and family member's strengths, potential, natural strivings toward growth, and capacity for change;
• Emphasizing staff members' roles in teaching or helping family members to develop coping and mastery skills, rather than "treating them;"
• Shifting from an illness or deficit orientation to a health/growth orientation in understanding and working with the family;
• Instilling hope and enhancing motivation in family members;
• Regarding clients as colleagues or partners in the helping process;
• Empowering families to "do" for themselves;
• Valuing cultural diversity;
• Supporting staff members in their efforts to help families......
