PART I: FOUNDATIONS FOR FAMILY ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION.1. Family Contexts.2. A Framework for Understanding Families.3. Family Systems.4.

Intergenerational Family Systems.PART II: FAMILY ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION.5. Family Assessment.6. Evidence-Based Assessment and Intervention Strategies.7. Evaluating Change.

8. Common Family Conflicts and Parenting Challenges.PART III: PREPARING FOR FAMILY ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION.9. Critical and Reflective Thinking.10. Narratives: Journals, Stories, and Letter Writing.11.

Exploring You Own Family Systems.PART IV: PRACTICING FAMILY ASSESSMENT THROUGH CASE STUDIES.12. The Yellowbird Family: Foster Care, Delinquency, and Transition to Independent Living.13. The Foxx Family: Physical Abuse, Aggression, and Parent-Child Management.14. The Sherman Family: Applying for Adoption.

15. The Fernandez Family: Supporting an Older Adult.16. The Del Sol Family: Marital Conflict and Parenting Concerns.17. The McCoy Family: Coping with Role Change after a Mother's Death.18. The Jacques Family: Assessment and Intervention in Intimate Partner Violence.

19 Brief Case Studies.References.Index.