title: [Effectiveness of in-home family-focused interventions].
abstract: Results of evaluation studies with a (quasi-)experimental design covering different models of in-home family-focused interventions are reviewed. These models are of the family support or the family preservation type of program. The methodological quality of the evaluation is high or very high in the case of the two family support programs Nurse Home Visitation and Healthy Families America and the two family preservation programs Functional Family therapy and Multisystemic Therapy. All of them are producing clinically relevant positive long-term effects. The models of in-home family-focused intervention currently used in Germany are to be evaluated in studies with (quasi-)experimental design.
authors.affiliation: Fakultät Angewandte Sozialwissenchaften der Fachhochschule München. heekeren@fhm.edu
authors.forename: Hans-Peter
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Heekerens
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D019090:Case Management; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000517:prevention & control*; D002655:Child Custody; D002669:Child Welfare; D016241:Child of Impaired Parents / Q000523:psychology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003152:Community Health Nursing; D003419:Crisis Intervention; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D005581:Foster Home Care; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000628:therapy