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Renta de emergencia familiar en Gandia
2011
Sensible ante la situación económica y de nuevas necesidades emergentes, el Ayuntamiento de Gandia, como principal promotor de políticas sociales, considera necesario integrar dentro de sus iniciativas para promover la igualdad, la solidaridad y la mejora de la calidad de vida, un recurso económico para paliar las distintas situaciones en las que se encuentran familias sin ingresos debido a que los adultos integrantes de la unidad familiar se encuentran en situación de desempleo. Se impulsa, como respuesta a estas nuevas necesidades, una prestación de carácter periódico denominada Renta de Emergencia Familiar (REF) que viene acompañada de un conjunto de actuaciones de carácter municipal dir…
Achieving agreement on service needs in child protection : Comparing children’s, mothers’ and practitioners’ views over time and between approaches
2022
Purpose While studies on service users’ participation and their perceptions on the quality of services exist, agreement between family members’ and practitioners’ assessments of the family’s situation has received less interest. The purpose of this paper is to investigate agreement and its effect on outcomes by comparing the viewpoints of three groups of informants (children, mothers and practitioners) in the context of statutory child protection in two study groups – one applying a systemic approach (SPM) and a service-as-usual control group (SAU). Design/methodology/approach A quasi-experimental repeated-measures study design was applied. Outcome data comprised 112 cases (SPM cases n = 5…
Protocol for a participatory survey to investigate the long-term effectiveness of adult psychiatric services (PSILEAPS) : a prospective exploratory c…
2022
Mental health research and practice is currently moving beyond a focus on group-level symptom reduction models. Hence, research and treatment increasingly emphasize the real-life individual needs of service users and their social networks. One example is the Open Dialogue approach (OD), which has demonstrated promising outcomes in the Finnish Western Lapland (WL) catchment area. Nevertheless, it is unclear how OD-based services have so far been maintained in WL. It is also unclear how the experiences of multi-disciplinary care teams, service users and their social network members differ, with regard to differing approaches to mental health treatment. More generally, there is a global need f…