FAMILY STRENGHTENING-MULTIDISCIPLINARY COOPERATION

After defining family strengthening, the author of the contribution focuses on the description of its main characteristics. She considers multidisciplinary cooperation to be a key “working unit” of family strengthening instead of separate work of social workers and other professionals with the family. Qualitative outcomes of familystrengthening are influenced by quality of multidisciplinary cooperation that is given not only by expertise of the particular members of the team but also by the atmosphereamong them.