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Issues, perspectives and arguments regarding family and parenting support program evaluation strategies

The evidence-based practice has spun evaluation needs in psychosocial interventions across a wide diversity of service areas. For family and parenting evidence-based programs have increasingly noticed the importance of evaluation strategies that respect the essentiality and goals of such practices. Among a number of issues involved in evaluation from informative to formative, outcomes and impact at a short and long term, all of them have challenged the transfer of scientific research into practice. In this paper, the authors briefly discuss approaches and hot topics for scientists, practitioners and policy-makers. As psychoeducational and social interventions become resourceful prevention instruments have also absorbed the principles and goals of prevention science, particularly critical for an extensive implementation of an evidence base of practices across services. However, the transference of evidence-based research into practice is filled with controversies that have fed a continuous dialogue among supporters of experimental designs and constructionism paradigms. Concretely, the conference will present arguments for the use of an evidence- based framework in the variety of family and parenting interventions. We will resume the principal theoretical positions and methodological prompts of influential researchers in the field and illustrate how these assumptions are embedded in known and reputable family and parenting programs in the European context, by a systematic review of all available evidence on evaluation strategies in family and parenting support programmes. We will end by pointing out a short list of principles and criteria of an evidence-based evaluation proposal.

evaluation strategies, evidence-based programs, family and parenting programs, prevention science, psychosocial interventions.

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