Family support as an approach to working with children, youth, parents, and families is widely practiced across Europe albeit with a range of diverse meanings and interpretations. This paper responds to this ambiguity and provides a conceptual understanding of the delivery of family support in Europe. In doing so it applies a social justice approach critically examining the extent to which Family Support reflects the right of families, children, youth, and parents to be supported. It identifies and critically examines similarities and differences in the meaning and application of family support as a key concept in the European context. It is based on a comprehensive review of literature, mapping multi-disciplinary approaches to the provision of support, based on academic material from 2015 to 2020 and adopting a broad and inclusive definition of family. The paper considers the complexities in developing a universally accepted understanding of family support that: has value for practitioners and managers; is selected as a focus by policy makers; is open to evaluation and research; is compatible with academic research; and most importantly provides responsive and effective support to children, youth, parents and families.

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从社会正义的角度来看待家庭支持的提供

家庭支持作为与儿童、青少年、父母和家庭合作的一种方法，在欧洲得到广泛应用，尽管其含义和解释各不相同。本文回应了这种模糊性，并提供了对欧洲提供家庭支持的概念性理解。在此过程中，它采用了社会正义方法，批判性地审查家庭支持在多大程度上反映了家庭、儿童、青少年和父母获得支持的权利。它确定并批判性地研究了家庭支持作为欧洲背景下的一个关键概念的含义和应用的异同。它基于对文献的全面审查，根据 2015 年至 2020 年的学术材料，绘制了提供支持的多学科方法，并采用了广泛且包容的家庭定义。本文考虑了对家庭支持形成普遍接受的理解的复杂性，该理解：对从业者和管理者有价值；被政策制定者选为重点；对评估和研究持开放态度；与学术研究兼容；最重要的是，为儿童、青少年、父母和家庭提供积极有效的支持。