Aiding 'at risk' children through psychoanalytic social work with parents.
A psychoanalytic social work approach to family intervention is described, and data on its impact on parents and their children are presented. Program parents, especially those in an open-ended approach, were rated as more positive both as persons and as parents; their children scored higher on IQ and other developmental and adaptational measures.
D002656:Child Day Care Centers; D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005196:Family Therapy; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010352:Patient Dropouts; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012923:Social Class; D012949:Social Work, Psychiatric