Home Intervention Program

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HOME INTERVENTION PROGRAM
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Introduction
This critical essay is based on the topic of ‘families and their children who are isolated from their
community'. Social isolation is a very important aspect of this essay, thus when an individual or
a family loses contact from their respective societies and the communities, this state is known as
social isolation. Isolation is seen in different age groups and it has many effects on the families
and their children. It is very difficult to be a parent as people feel stressed, alone and tired. As a
result of this, the families get disconnected from their friends, neighbours and social activities.
This isolates the families and their children from their society as well as the community.
Generally, families of a single parent, divorced parent, military families, parent of children with
special abilities, etc. gradually go to isolation from their community. Isolation affects children
largely. The children of the families who live in isolation, feel sad, bored and interaction with
others is very less from their sides and further the children who are raised in isolated families
feel isolated from a very early stage of life. They feel stressed and depression is seen among
them. Mood swings are also evident among them. This particular essay discusses issues like
early intervention and prevention (EIP) programs that positively impact on communities,
families, and children (birth to 8 years), allocated area of vulnerability, comparison of two
projects influence communities’ capacities and families’ capabilities to support children’s (birth
to 8 years) development, health and well-being, Siddiqi, Irwin and Hertzman’s TEAM-ECD
framework (2007) is also used in this essay.
Discussion:
There are some programs of early intervention and prevention, which help the families as well as
children who are cut off from their communities. There are many services of early intervention

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that support the parents and their siblings in the time of helplessness, disappointment, frustration,
stress (Fulkerson et al., 2018). All these psychological issues have a great influence on the
welfare of their family life, social life, and personal life. These issues have negative impacts on
the mind of the children who are brought up in isolated circumstances. For supporting the
families and children and for providing an encouraging environment, the early intervention and
prevention program (EIP) gives services. The EIP program for offering an improved life to the
children so that they can acquire better opportunities in the future establishes a base. EIP
program also supports those families, which have children with special abilities, delayed
development of brain and mind, etc. opportunities are provided to parents for improving the
relationship with their kids by the EIP program (Arney & Scott, 2013). The program to establish
the parents as the role models to their children uses a parent example approach. The antisocial
behaviour of the children can be recognized because of the isolated condition of the family. This
particular essay focuses on the children of the age group of 0-8 years. Therapies, treatments, and
counselling are the parts of the EIP program that are utilized to improve the behaviour of the
children (Wong et al., 2018). Isolation from the beginning of life affects negatively on the
children and it moulds the social behaviour in the future. The children may face numerous
difficulties while interacting with others in the school, park, and neighbourhood. These
difficulties make them more isolated as they feel low and do not want to connect with people
socially. EIP programs take an active role in resolving these issues and try to assist the families
to work out their problems so that the mental situation of their children can grow gradually.
Many strategies may be used to indicate vulnerability. Home visiting is a strategy, which is
short-termed and used for delivering services, thus the strategy is used here for women who
become mothers for the first time. This group of women needs assistance in greater extent

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because, at this period, women go through a transitional phase, which they have never
experienced before. Early intervention helps them to gain knowledge and this knowledge helps
them in their further pregnancies. This strategy is more applicable to those women who are
isolated from their society, resources related to psychology is very less and difficulties are
present in their lives (Strand & Eldevik, 2018). There are certain objectives of home visiting,
such as to assist the mothers in planning their family, create connections between local
healthcare services with their family, and give guidance to the mothers. Therefore, they can take
good care of their babies in whatever the circumstances are, improve skills of the mothers to
communicate with their children well, provide awareness of child development. It also
encourages the mothers to join their community, engage mothers and their families in services of
the community, provide support to take part in opportunities related to education and work, help
them adopt different life skills and many more. Another important goal of this strategy is to offer
new strategies, which will enable them to make their children disciplined. This will facilitate the
mothers as well as their children (Desmond, 2018). The discipline will structure the social life as
well as the personal lives of the children. This home visiting strategy has two key approaches,
which affect mothers. The first approach is the advice of the experts to the mothers and the other
one is the model of partnership. The strategy of home visiting provides the mothers to get advice
and information from the experts who are professional and this helps them acquire a true
perspective of different aspects of their motherhood and children. The other approach of this
strategy is to provide the model of partnership with the assistance of a home visitor. The
presence of this home visitor not only offers solutions for their different issues but also allow
them to grow a friendship with the visitor. This makes them connect socially and the isolating
state of the mothers can be resolved, if not wholly, then partially. These approaches are added in