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We are, therefore, a procedure in which the family is considered as a system and there are present problems of communication, relationships that crystallize specific unwanted effects that have emerged in a specific circumstance that requires clearly identifiable intervention qualitatively different from above. Any intervention with any of the components of the family has repercussions throughout. Thus all members of the family influence and are influenced by the group and each of its participants, establishing a continuous and complex web of relationships that no one can escape. To this we must add the assessment to be performed in the communication among peers because it has special characteristics and wealth that make it a prime therapeutic instruments (17). While you are working directly with only one member of the family, the rest has to know this intervention and are indirectly involved in it, inviting them to participate in different activities. In these cases, it is important to establish support groups, as it involves the establishment of a framework for addressing family problems, in a suitable climate, creating links that allow the spontaneous expression of the difficulties and feelings. They are essential tools in the intervention with families to address issues that relate to such communication difficulties, produced by new generating dysfunction mild adjustment and requiring a group intervention based on the exchange of information and experiences with people who share the same or similar circumstances. An example: the birth in a family of a child with a disability can compromise and alter the functions traditionally family recognize him, like, care and physical care, socialization and education, etc..