Время Науки. 2016.Выпуск 2 -The Times of Science

Ruth Remmel-Faßbender Рут Реммель-Фасбендер 14 №2 transformed into self-efficacy. "Multi-problem families, with their experience of support, monitoring and punishment bodies gathered over generations, as well as the sense of powerlessness associated with this, require a helper who is available as a real person and who deliberately dispenses with abstinence, neutrality and anonymity" (Schuster, 2015). The difficult dynamic within the client-helper relationship is still undervalued. Critical reflection Positive results are available, although numerous problems still exist in the implementation and also in the legal questions. When it comes to the clarification (diagnosis) of important indications for the suspicion or existence of child endangerment, clear guidelines do exist - also for voluntary workers - as to when full-time specialists in social work must be informed. However, the balancing act between the protection of confidence for the families and the monitoring duties required depending on the risk situation remains precarious. It is always necessary to consider when essential and also proportionate measures should be initiated for the protection of children, and when the youth welfare office must therefore be involved. Situations will always arise - even with the most intensive outreach support - in which parents are unable to guarantee the safe upbringing of their children, and legal interventions become necessary in order to limit or remove the right of care and initiate acute protection measures. The interfaces between outreach child protection measures of voluntary organisations and the cooperation with the youth welfare office are also presently being legally examined through assessment by the national centre. The requirement for interdisciplinary cooperation continues to create difficulties in practice. The profession-specific, competing approach continues to partially impede the vision of common understanding and the associated position that multiple individuals need to combine their skills, in order to overcome a complex situation. A great deal of work must certainly still be done, although the results to date and the establishment of new flexible projects brings hope that the service providers will align their services with the actual needs of parents and children. Particularly important is the development of support that is tailored from the perspectives of those affected. We are on the right track here! It is technically important and necessary that the national centre remains available on a nationwide basis as an advisory centre and coordination point. This will facilitate continuous quality development, which in turn will enable successful consolidation of old and new effective and efficient support measures. However, early intervention can only be one building block, which must always be considered in conjunction with the tasks and organisation of the youth welfare office and the socio-political orientation within the FRG as a whole. Conflicts and particularly risks to child welfare pose a major, onerous challenge to all parties involved. They frequently constitute a balancing act between parents, who fight due to their fear of losing their child, and specialists, who do everything they can to