No. 46 (2025): Training professionals in evidence-based preventive socio-educational intervention with families

In the field of Social Pedagogy, there is a long trajectory of searching for preventive socio-educational intervention strategies based on evidence that respond to problems related to risk behaviors in adolescence. In addition, given the social and technological change that has occurred in recent years, especially accelerated by the circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic, adolescence has intensified new problems, and with them, new challenges for Social Pedagogy.

In the prevention of affective-sexual, addictive and antisocial behavior risks in adolescence, there is the proven path for its effectiveness of evidence-based family programs. The facilitators of these programs require adequate skills and great preparation to implement them. Professionals well trained in evidence-based family programs will be able to effectively collaborate in the success of the interventions. The aim of this special issue is to study how to improve the skills of facilitators in family socio-educational programmes and their adherence to evidence-based practice, in order to improve the effectiveness of these programmes.