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- Title
Development and Dissemination of Collaborative Family-Oriented Services: The Case of Community/Day Residential Care in Israel.
- Authors
Elizur, Yoel
- Abstract
The initiation, development, and dissemination of family-oriented programs are a unifying thread that highlights family therapy's contribution to the fields of mental/physical health and social services. These demanding tasks require an ecosystemic vision, a supportive larger context, and a range of skills. This article delineates the evolution of community and day residential care in Israel by examining processes at different ecological levels: the formulation and implementation of national social policy, the follow-up of two family-oriented facilities, one of which thrived while the other eventually closed, and the residential care provided to 1 family with 3 children. The analysis of this multilevel data highlights 4 facilitating/obstructing factors that have had major impact on family-oriented programs: support by both national and local sociopolitical-professional administration, program's management autonomy, staff training, support and development, and effective facility leadership that establishes and nurtures family-oriented organizational structure and culture.
- Subjects
ISRAEL; COMMUNITY health services; FAMILIES; FAMILY medicine; INTERPROFESSIONAL relations; EVALUATION of medical care; PARENTS; EVALUATION research; RESIDENTIAL care
- Publication
Family Process, 2012, Vol 51, Issue 1, p140
- ISSN
0014-7370
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1545-5300.2012.01389.x