Abstract
This article reports an action-research focused on the improvement of a training program for professionals working with multi-challenged families with at-risk or maltreated children. The program aimed at the implementation of a multi-systemic, collaborative and strength-based family assessment and intervention model. Outcome evaluation results indicate that professionals improved their skills and achieved minimal competence. Process evaluation reveals that participating in the training has been a transformative experience and highlights facilitator and constraining conditions for participants’ learning and changing as well as suggestions for improvement of the training program. Implications for practice and future research are discussed.
Highlights
This article reports an action-research focused on the improvement of a training program for professionals working with multi-challenged families with at-risk or maltreated children
Themes of training in systemic family therapy have been present in the literature for a long time (Campbell, Draper, & Huffington, 1989; Elkaïm, 1988; Nel, 2006) but empirical studies focused in specific training programs are not abundant (Street, 1997)
The purpose of this article is to describe a mixed-methods multiple-case study evaluation aimed at assessing the process and outcome of a training program for professionals implementing Integrated Family Assessment and Intervention Model (IFAIM)
Summary
This article reports an action-research focused on the improvement of a training program for professionals working with multi-challenged families with at-risk or maltreated children. Este artigo descreve um estudo de avaliação, de investigação-ação, e de casos múltiplos, focado no melhoramento do processo e resultado de um programa de formação para profissionais. Solution-focused and strength-based perspectives have expression in community and child protection settings (Berg, 1991; Turnell & Edwards, 1999) but studies focused on these matters are scarce In these contexts, professionals often work, multisystemically, with difficult to help multi-challenged families (Linares, 1997; Madsen, 2007; Melo, 2011; Rojano, 2004). Preparing professionals to work with these families is specially demanding in cases of child maltreatment (Reder & Lucey, 1995)
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