Critical to maintaining and improving physical and mental health is self‐care, yet interventions for grandfamilies (i.e., skipped‐generation households) minimally address such practices. Grounded by family resilience theory and strengths‐based approaches, this article introduces our rationale for an intervention addressing grandparents' and grandchildren's self‐care practices. The GRANDcares intervention is a tripartite intervention for grandparents, grandchildren, and service providers who work with grandfamilies. Following the National Institutes of Health's stage model for behavioral interventions, we briefly outline the literature on promoting self‐care and resilience in grandfamilies and meeting service providers' needs when working with grandfamilies. Next, we apply these theories to the development of the GRANDcares intervention. We close with a discussion of the GRANDcares programming and a synopsis of our efforts thus far, including recommendations for future research on strengths‐based interventions for grandfamilies.

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以家庭为中心和基于优势的方法对大家庭进行干预的重要性

自我保健对维持和改善身心健康至关重要，但对大家庭（即，代收后代家庭）的干预措施则很少涉及此类做法。本文以家庭适应力理论和基于优势的方法为基础，介绍了我们针对祖父母和孙子的自我保健行为进行干预的理由。对于与祖父母一起工作的祖父母，孙子和服务提供者，GRANDcares干预是一项三方干预。遵循美国国立卫生研究院行为干预的阶段模型，我们简要概述了有关在祖父母中促进自我保健和适应力以及在与祖父母一起工作时满足服务提供者需求的文献。下一个，我们将这些理论应用于GRANDcares干预的发展。在结束时，我们将讨论GRANDcares计划以及迄今为止我们所做的工作提要，包括有关未来对基于优势的大家庭干预研究的建议。