ABSTRACT
This chapter examines implications of Homebuilders model for addressing related social problems beyond child abuse and neglect and explores the implications for human service education. The characteristic that suggests the promise of intensive family preservation services for preventing adolescent antisocial behaviors is the comprehensive or noncategorical approach to the presenting problems of families. Unfortunately, many families served by family preservation therapists experience multiple problems, though the combinations differ from family to family. Because the services of intensive family preservation are not categorically limited, therapists can tailor the intervention to address those risk factors most salient in each family. In a very time-limited intervention, intensive family preservation services require the use of specific technologies in response to specific identified problems. The practice wisdom of those involved in intensive family preservation services provides a rich resource for those in schools of social work seeking to design human service education programs that prepare social workers for their expanding roles in prevention.
