This timely book demonstrates the value and relevance of family-oriented programs in dealing with problems experienced by children and adolescents. Experts provide salient guidelines and recommendations for involving the family in the diagnosis and treatment of problems. In addition to providing current reviews of research, this practical volume describes various skill-building programs and therapeutic interventions that can be used in a variety of program and treatment settings. Designed for helping professionals who work with children and youth, Family Perspectives in Child and Youth Services will be most valuable for practitioners in social work, psychology, psychiatry, and child development.

Autorentext

David H. Olson

Zusammenfassung
The rubric &quote;Quality of Life&quote; first came to the explicit attention of the medical profession a little over thirty years ago. Despite the undoubted fact that each one of us has his or her own Quality of Life, be it good or bad, there is still no general agreement about its definition, or the manner in which it should be evaluated. Although much has been written about quality of life, this work has been largely concerned with population-based studies, especially in health policy and health economics. The importance of &quote;individual&quote; quality of life has been neglected, in part because of a failure to define quality of life itself with sufficient care, in part perhaps because of a belief that it is impossible to develop a meaningful method of measuring individual variables.The editors of this book believe that the primary focus of quality of life is and must continue to be the individual, who alone can define it and assess its changing personal significance. The challenge of presenting this belief

Inhalt

Chapter 1 Family Perspectives: An Overview, David H. Olson; Part 1 Family Assessment and Intervention Approaches; Chapter 2 Family Assessment and Intervention: The Circumplex Model of Family Systems, David H. Olson; Chapter 3 Building Relationship Skills in Families and Para-Family Teams, Bernard Guerney Jr., Louise Guerney; Chapter 4 Home Visits: An Effective Strategy for Engaging the Involuntary Client, Pallassana R. Balgopal, Michael A. Patchner, Charles H. Henderson; Chapter 5 The Entrance of Systems Family Therapy into a Residential Treatment Center, William J. Matthews, Michael A. Patchner, Janine Roberts; Part 2 Parent Training And Prevention Approaches; Chapter 6 Parent Training for Delinquency Prevention, Mark W. Fraser, J. David Hawkins, Matthew O. Howard; Chapter 7 Parents as Intervention Agents for Children with Conduct Problems and Juvenile Offenders, Magda Stouthamer-Loeber, Rolf Loeber; Chapter 8 Working with Families: Expanded Roles for Child Care Practitioners, Karen Vander Ven; Chapter 9 Family-Based Services: Preventive Intervention, Marvin E. Bryce;