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Empowerment, Well-Being and the Welfare State: Family Social Work in Spain

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Family Well-Being

Part of the book series: Social Indicators Research Series ((SINS,volume 49))

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In this chapter, we approach several key dimensions of the family well-being: firstly, the particular characteristics of Spanish families; secondly, the barriers for the inclusion of these families; and thirdly, the design of intervention programmes to improve their inclusion. From this point, in this chapter, we provide an overview of these three dimensions. Related to the first point, we will analyse the main paradoxes we find in our Spanish society when we think of families. Related to the second point, we note how social policies are frequently focused on a delivery programme of funds or other resources. In this point, we discuss the empowerment perspective and how it could help to transform these delivery programmes in empowering/strengthening programmes that work beyond the assisting issue. Finally, we show an assessment intervention from the empowerment perspective.

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    The locus of control is a personality trait proposed in social learning theory. See Rotter and Murly (1965). The locus of control is measured according to the capacity of control and self-control, that is, to what extent subjects are capable of self-control when faced with social situations or, in contrast, their actions are influenced by such situations.

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    Antonio López Peláez & Sagrario Segado Sánchez-Cabezudo

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Peláez, A.L., Sánchez-Cabezudo, S.S. (2013). Empowerment, Well-Being and the Welfare State: Family Social Work in Spain. In: Moreno Minguez, A. (eds) Family Well-Being. Social Indicators Research Series, vol 49. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4354-0_14

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