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It Takes a Village to Raise a Child: Understanding and Expanding the Concept of the “Village”

This perspective article defines and discusses the concept of the “village” when working with families who are experiencing multiple adversities. The article starts with a discussion on what is meant generally by a village approach, followed by a historical overview of how families living in adversi...

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Autores principales: Reupert, Andrea, Straussner, Shulamith Lala, Weimand, Bente, Maybery, Darryl
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8964422/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35372232
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.756066
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description This perspective article defines and discusses the concept of the “village” when working with families who are experiencing multiple adversities. The article starts with a discussion on what is meant generally by a village approach, followed by a historical overview of how families living in adversity have been defined and positioned. The need to move past a siloed, professional centric approach when working with families is then presented. Using a model of social connections, based on Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory, we then identify who the “villagers” might be. Some potential principles for how the village might work with families living with adversity are presented, along with two case studies, to demonstrate how these principles might be enacted. This perspective article provides an overview and discussion of “the village” concept, rather than present a definitive set of guidelines or recommendations.
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spelling pubmed-89644222022-03-31 It Takes a Village to Raise a Child: Understanding and Expanding the Concept of the “Village” Reupert, Andrea Straussner, Shulamith Lala Weimand, Bente Maybery, Darryl Front Public Health Public Health This perspective article defines and discusses the concept of the “village” when working with families who are experiencing multiple adversities. The article starts with a discussion on what is meant generally by a village approach, followed by a historical overview of how families living in adversity have been defined and positioned. The need to move past a siloed, professional centric approach when working with families is then presented. Using a model of social connections, based on Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory, we then identify who the “villagers” might be. Some potential principles for how the village might work with families living with adversity are presented, along with two case studies, to demonstrate how these principles might be enacted. This perspective article provides an overview and discussion of “the village” concept, rather than present a definitive set of guidelines or recommendations. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-03-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8964422/ /pubmed/35372232 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.756066 Text en Copyright © 2022 Reupert, Straussner, Weimand and Maybery. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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