Trabajo Social con familias: los estilos familiares como indicadores de riesgos, una investigación etnográfica [Social Work with Families: Family Styles as Risk Predictors. An ethnographic Research]

Abstract

In social Work with families, the assessment of the family situation is a necessary step to design an appropriate intervention project. Related to this, several key factors must be taken into account, such as how families face reality, their own self-perception, and the discourses they construct about themselves. One way of analyzing these key factors is to pay attention to their patterns of interaction and their relational dynamics. This article presents the results of a research conducted on the narratives of spanish families. The results show how the relation between family lifestyle and specific risks of social exclusion allows to establish a set of intervention strategies that facilitate the professional intervention of social workers.

Relative Immunity: COVID-19 Pandemic Effects on the Emotional State, Economy, Leisure, and Socialization of Young People in Spain

“…When a group of people collectively see the relative risk of experiencing an event as more favorable compared to another group in similar conditions, the phenomenon is described as "wishful optimism" [15] or "optimistic bias", given that, logically, not all members of a group will have a below-average risk of suffering a given event. Weinstein's studies primarily provide two important contributions about the human capacity to make judgments [16,17]. The first is that people seem to be unrealistically optimistic about the future.…”