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Site Index
About The Option 2 Intervention
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Reports, Reviews and Evaluation
The Option 2 Statistical Database
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Our Guiding Principles
We can't tell if it is hopeless · we do not know which families we can be successful with until we try. · If we feel hopeless, we can't help the client and we can't instil hope in the client
It is our job to motivate clients and instil hope · by building on existing, possible hidden strengths
Clients are our partners · We share resources and accept them as as experts on their own situation
Sometimes workers can make life worse for families · by providing inappropriate services · or services that people are not ready for · By ignoring existing strengths and expertise · by feeling that there is no hope · by ignoring the values specific to the family
We must guard against our natural tendency to remake families and clients into our own ideal image of a family or parent
On the whole, people are doing the best they can with what they know. · We can change behaviour without understanding the why of the behaviour · by highlighting hidden resources · by providing extra resources, skills and tools
It is our basic job to empower clients · we work with and not to
We can help the whole family to make changes even if the whole family does not work with us. · The whole family is our client
We must pause and plan · observe and learn · hypothesise, · test and reformulate
Our role is to help families to provide a safe and secure home for the children.
These principles are fundamental to the way we work and what we believe about our working relationships with families.
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