Effective Intervention Strategies: Principles and Planning

Posted on Apr 2, 2025 in Social sciences

Intervention Strategies: A Comprehensive Guide

Intervention:

  • Modify or transform a situation.
  • Actively and voluntarily take part in what you want and do not want to do.
  • Acting in response to a need.
  • Know what goals are raised.
  • It must take into account the methodology and strategies to be used.
  • Human, material, financial, etc. resources are required.
  • It requires a human component, skills, and professional abilities.
  • A user’s willingness to change is essential.

Elements of Intervention Planning

1. Rationale for intervention // 2. Objectives of the intervention // 3. Activities // 4. Methodology // 5. Resources // 6. Timing // 7. Assessment

Execution of Intervention Plans

Professionals, along with those directly involved, establish the objectives to achieve the so-called improvement plans or work plans. These plans make explicit all the objectives to be achieved in relation to the subject being treated.

At the individual level: health, habits, etc. // At the household level: relations of friendship, good family relations // At the social level: participation in activities

The User and the Intervention

In Family Intervention, the user does not always refer to the person receiving it directly, but often also includes the person or family who are involved throughout its development. In many cases, there is a clear rejection of this action.

Intervention Despite User Rejection

There are cases of child neglect risk or where the practitioner has to cope with situations of great violence or emotion. Those in which families are not willing to collaborate on improvement plans. They may also appear domestic violence cases where the woman protects the perpetrator. The practitioner must hold firm to their views, but also to convince the positive consequences of the intervention processes. It has to have social skills that allow fluid relationships with users.

Key Intervention Principles

  1. Intervene respecting people and the family system in style, ideology, and values.
  2. Enter the family only as far as they want and can let in at all times.
  3. Using a sociocultural level language wealthy family
  4. Maintain a neutral attitude to all members.
  5. Be aware of no interventions “antitherapeutic” as:
  • to keep the family away from “fear” of being enveloped by her
  • perform an intervention designed to defend
  • giving many prescriptions no time to develop
  • get carried away with negative feelings toward any member
  • provide a “prescription impossible” can not continue.

Intervention in Families

First step: to know what has been the family contact form: if you request the family or is derived.

When the family that contact with social services is usually caused by problems resulting from situations such cases crisis.En normally accept the intervention of professionals and demand. When the family is derived is usually due to carelessness of the parent-child obligations, lack of food, hygiene, etc.

Basic Objectives in Family Intervention

  • The family is aware of its problems and difficulties.
  • Overcome situations as a group, tend to blame some external member.
  • Get a rapport and trust.

The Role of Social Integrator

  • Conduct a series of actions that will be determined by the social worker and the multidisciplinary team. Shall be implemented and evaluated in order to induce new views to set goals and tasks.
  • Create and maintain a climate of trust, being a permanent and stable figure in the family.
  • You will need to understand the problem or problems involved in overcoming the existing problems.

In short, its basic tasks: to act in everyday family through:

  • Providing training in basic skills.
  • Provide personal skills and powers:
  • Training in social skills: ability to interact with the environment, …
  • Involve social networks as a source of support (family, friends, neighbors ,…).
  • Use at any time reinforcing factors, rewarding good performances made verbalizations.
  • Identify and remove barriers.
  • Train and facilitate the search for forms of remembrance of the slogans, develop favorable habits techniques, motivating and encouraging participation in everyday family.