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The preventive function of family guidance in education

Abstract:

This work addresses one of the most current pressing problems, the preventive role of family counseling in the context of a risk society. The objective of this research was to assess the preventive function of family counseling, in the province of Manabí- Ecuador; not from a mitigating or corrective conception, but, based on a diagnosis of the state of the prevention function of family orientation, where the factors that limit the prevention process were analyzed, taking into account the theory and methodology linked to structural aspects of prevention such as: Theory and methodology of risk analysis and the theory and methodology of decision making. A proposal for a more complete definition of prevention and a characterization of the prevention function of family counseling was one of the main results. The methodology was based on the application of theoretical methods such as: Scientific abstraction, the comparative method, and the functional structural systemic method. Among the empirical methods, the scientific interview and document analysis were used.