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What is Wraparound?
The wraparound process is described as a way to provide service and support planning using a team-based collaborative approach. In this team-based planning process, individuals work together toward a common goal for the child and family. This process values the family perspective and emphasizes the need to have family members as equal decision-makers with regard to the development, implementation, and monitoring of a child's individualized plan. This concept of providing families and youth with more control over their treatment is known as empowerment. Literature on empowerment has shown that when caregivers feel empowered they are more satisfied with services and report better child functioning (Resendez, Quist, & Matshazi, 2000). The basis for the Wraparound model is rooted in several psychosocial theories of child development including ecological theory and systems theories (Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children’s Mental Health, 2004). Both theories highlight the importance of the relationship between various environmental systems (e.g. family, school, community) and the child as well as the relationship between the systems themselves (Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children’s Mental Health, 2004). These theories take into account the multiple levels of influence from social, cultural, and environmental contexts on behaviors. |
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