Family Wellness Program Analysis

Family Wellness: Survival Skills for Healthy Families is a psycho-educational program that is designed to help families strengthen their relationships and support healthy ways of interacting (SAMHSA’s National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices, 2014). It is a quickly learned and easily adapted program, which has been proven effective for various cultures, languages, and communities (“Survival Skills and Tools For Families,” n.d.). The goal for Family Wellness is to help improve communication, conflict resolution, cooperation skills, disciplinary, and problem solving between family members (SAMHSA’s NREPP, 2014). They use different interactive techniques such as role-play, sculpts, visuals, and group activities. This program is composed of six two-hour sessions, which are delivered in different formats such as one-to-three hour classes weekly, biweekly, or monthly, daylong workshops, and weekend retreats. …show more content…
These sections are parenting, family functioning, and couples and relationships. Parenting includes children in healthy families, having parents as leaders and models and dealing with change. Family functioning includes communication skills, extended family issues, and parental values. Couples and relationships include domestic violence, commitment, money management, and conflict resolution, but are only for adults. The children of the families participate in the family and parenting functioning sessions. According to Montanez (2012, October), the use of the Family Wellness program can benefit not only the participant families, but also for the general well-being of society, breaking down isolation and constructing a sense of