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Prevention and Intervention: Using Resiliency-Based Multi-Setting Approaches and a Process-Orientation

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How to best help children grow up in the face of multiple risks is addressed. Two intervention approaches are presented. The first is a resiliency-based intervention approach focused on increasing protection and decreasing risks faced by children. The use of multi-setting resiliency-based interventions and the use of collaboration across schools, families and communities are discussed. The second approach focuses on using a process orientation in interventions with at-risk children and their families as a means of working with different cultural, family, and individual issues that affect children’s development and families’ goals. Successes of intervention approaches are discussed.

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Middlemiss, W. Prevention and Intervention: Using Resiliency-Based Multi-Setting Approaches and a Process-Orientation. Child Adolesc Soc Work J 22, 85–103 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10560-005-2555-3

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