Esta área de estudio ofrece una descripción general de la ciencia inherente a las intervenciones de prevención basadas en la familia, y los métodos utilizados para intervenir de manera efectiva a fin de prevenir el uso de sustancias en niños, niñas y adolescentes. También proporciona aprendizaje empírico en algunas de las habilidades utilizadas en métodos efectivos de intervención basados en la familia para preparar a los implementadores de prevención a participar en tales programas. El área de estudio consta de siete campos.
Especialidad de profesionales, Área de Estudio 1: Prevención basada en la familia 87 horas
UPC 11: Understanding Families: Diversity and Context
This courses presents research about the diversity of families within and across countries, how family structures differ and how families may function differently. It also discusses how family practices influence youth substance use and related problems and some basic skills for working with families.
UPC 12: Interventions with Families - Basic Models and Skills
This course discusses general models of interventions with families such as the Family Partnership and Family Development Models. It also presents some examples of evidence-based interventions that prevent substance use.
UPC 13: Family-based Interventions: Skills & Evidence-Based Programs
This course presents some of the best family programmes with the best evidence that target families with children of different ages such as: Nurse Family Partnership Model as an example of Home Visiting models for helping families of infants and toddlers; The Incredible Years and Dare To Be You intervention models to intervene with families of young children; Strengthening Families for Parents and Youth 10-14; and Multi-systemic Therapy intervention models which demonstrate skills used by professionals to intervene with families of adolescents.
UPC 14: Interventions with Groups - Management and Processes
This course describes the concepts related to the management and processes of conducting multi-family group interventions that include identifying stages of group dynamics that occur in this type of intervention, characteristics of effective group leaders, skills of organizing a group, some common problems that occur with the structure and process of running family-based interventions in groups and challenges that might happen in groups.
UPC 15: Barriers and Challenges to Family Interventions
This course examines on some of the common barriers and solutions to implementing effective family-based prevention programmes in the community, such as, local customs and practices that may limit family participation, and some of the possible solutions that help families participate, despite barriers. It also examines different reasons for adapting programmes and illustrates the best practices in adapting programmes to make them match with the local culture.
UPC 16: Interventions with Families: Ethics, Supervision and Self- Care
This course explains the basic principles of and application to working with families based on a model of ethical decision-making. It also examines concepts related to basic child maltreatment, intimate partner violence definitions and reporting, elder abuse, suicide and homicide in youth and adults, and burnout as well as steps for creating a self-care plan.
UPC 17: Monitoring and Evaluation of Family Programs
This course discusses the importance of and application of monitoring and evaluation to family- based prevention interventions, the process for developing a monitoring system, and the purposes of process and outcome evaluation for family-based prevention interventions.