“…Our proposal is to introduce a general legal framework for participation that implies unanimous respect for it. The reunification process should be addressed indistinctly with parents and sons/daughters, attending, at a minimum, to the following contents (Figure 1): - At the time of separation and foster care, the dimensions of participation should be addressed to (Balsells et al, 2019): (a) understand and internalize abandonment and, with it, separation, (b) know the foster care resource, (c) acquire a realistic view of the exercise of parenting during foster care, (d) identify the role of professionals and (e) identify the necessary improvements in the exercise of parenting to complete the return of the CA to the home.In this sense, and without specifying the scope of the measure, the formulation of recent art. 69 of the law of Andalusia (LA1) is encouraging, which proposes incorporating ‘positive parenting training courses, which should be especially present in family intervention projects and intervention plans of social services’ in situations of abandonment.
- In the return and follow‐up phase, the objectives of participation should be addressed to (Balsells et al, 2014): (a) plan the necessary adjustments for the reconstruction of the relationship in the return home, (b) be realistic with the changes achieved in the exercise of parenting, (c) know the characteristics of a process of returning home and (d) establish the social support necessary to sustain the return home (follow‐up).
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