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Description: In Portugal, a high number of families at-risk is followed by social services with different measures of children's promotion of rights and protection. These measures, among others, can target family preservation, to prevent family breakdown, or family reunification, following family breakdown and the period spent by the child in out-of-home care. However, families within these contexts receive heterogeneous interventions by the social services professionals that follow them, as there are no evidence-based interventions applied to the contexts of family preservation or family reunification. As such, the current research project aims at evaluating a sample of at least 150 children aged 6-11 and their primary caregiver (mother or father) of the district of Porto, Portugal, followed by the social services with measures of family preservation or family reunification. Specific objectives are to: 1) assess the individual and familial (factors that contribute to the success of the measures of family preservation or reunification; 2) evaluate the effectiveness of the evidence-based intervention Standard Triple P in the contexts of family preservation or reunification; and 3) identify which children and parents benefit the most from the parenting intervention, according to the differential susceptibility hypothesis and the diathesis-stress model. Funded by the Portuguese Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (PTDC/SOC-ASO/31727/2017).