This article is a reflection on the insertion of the family in different situations of risk, a proposal of the Program of Healthy of the Family. The object is to understand the family as integrated in the process of the new model of health construction, in which the professionals visualize and take part in the diversity and complexity of the family world. A theoretic reflection has been made, which points out the blanks in the know/make professional in caring the family as a whole, identifies some possible alternatives to the progression in the ways of nurse caring and to the conquests concerning the model of health. It has been considered the diversity of family structure, as well as the many risk circumstances lived by the individuals. The Program of the Health of the Family is a promising strategy to prompt meetings between the health staff and the families, in search of drawing near in caring which makes easy the evidences of risk possibilities lived by the family group.
Family; Nursing; Family health