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The purpose of this paper is to examine what it means to be empowered, how different helping models either promote or inhibit a sense of empowerment, and how professionals might intervene in ways that promote the acquisition of self-sustaining and adaptive behavior that reflect a sense of empowerment. An enabling model of helping and a set of intervention principles are proposed that professionals can employ to increase the likelihood of children and families becoming empowered as part of help seeking and help giving exchanges.
Dunst et al. (Tue,) studied this question.