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| Introduction | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Family-Centered Services: A Typology, Brief History, and Overview of Current Program Implementation and Evaluation Challenges | |
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| A Program Typology of Family-Centered Services | |
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| History of Family-Centered Services | |
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| Program Limitations and Policy Pitfalls | |
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| Selected Program Implementation Challenges in Family-Centered Services | |
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| Values and Ethics for Family-Centered Practice | |
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| Theoretical Foundation | |
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| The Impact of Values in Practice | |
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| Evolution of Values in Family-Centered Services | |
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| Historical Backdrop | |
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| Values That Direct Family-Centered Services | |
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| Family Plays an Essential Role in Child Development | |
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| The Family Is Part of a System | |
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| Clients Are Colleagues | |
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| Strengths Are to Be Emphasized | |
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| Home Is the Primary Service Setting | |
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| The Family's Needs Determine Services | |
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| The Family and Workers Operate in the Community | |
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| Cultural Competency in Providing Family-Centered Services | |
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| History of Culturally Competent Practice | |
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| Culturally Competent Social Work and Family-Centered Practice | |
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| Assessing Family-Centered Services for Ethnic Families | |
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| Planning Culturally Competent Family-Centered Services | |
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| Cultural Values as Guideposts to Service Development | |
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| A Conceptual Framework for Family-Centered Services | |
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| Family Systems Theory | |
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| Ecological Theory | |
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| Social Work Models | |
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| Strength-Based Perspective | |
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| Empowerment Theory | |
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| A Conceptual Framework: Integration of Theories | |
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| Family-Centered Assessment and Goal Setting | |
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| Expanded Roles of Family Members as Experts on Their History and Challenges | |
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| Use of Self in Relationship to Family-Centered Practice Principles | |
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| Maintaining a Nonjudgmental Stance | |
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| Preparing for Family-Centered Assessment | |
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| Home Observation | |
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| Ethical Considerations of Working in the Family's Home | |
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| Family-Centered Assessment Process | |
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| Connecting Family Assessment to Goal-Setting Activities | |
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| Collaborative Team Building to Support Family Assessment and Goal Setting | |
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| Well-Being and Family-Centered Services: The Value of the Developmental Assets Framework | |
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| Some Implications and Effects of Attending to Safety, Permanency, and Well-Being for Child and Family Services | |
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| Family-Centered Reforms and Child and Family Services | |
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| The Empirical Basis for the Developmental Assets Framework | |
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| The Basis for Defining Thriving Outcomes | |
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| Measurement of the Developmental Assets and Thriving Indicators | |
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| Findings Related to the Developmental Assets Framework and Thriving Indicators | |
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| Adapting the Developmental Assets Framework to Children | |
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| The Importance of Applying the Developmental Assets Framework to Family-Centered Services | |
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| Interventions: Hard and Soft Services | |
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| Definitional Issues | |
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| The Home-Based Worker's Intervention Task | |
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| Categories of Home-Based Interventions | |
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| Case Examples | |
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| Future Issues | |
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| Formal and Informal Kinship Care: Supporting the Whole Family | |
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| Formal and Informal Support | |
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| Kinship Family Care | |
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| Formal Kinship Care | |
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| Policy Issues | |
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| Family Group Conferencing: An "Extended Family" Process to Safeguard Children and Strengthen Family Well-Being | |
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| Historical Roots in New Zealand | |
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| New Zealand's Legislative Precedence | |
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| Evolution of Family Group Conferencing | |
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| The Practice of Family Group Conferencing | |
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| Targeting the Right Families for Family-Centered Services: Current Dilemmas and Future Directions | |
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| The Evolution of Targeting Practices in Family-Centered Services | |
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| Future Direction of Targeting Practices in Family-Centered Services | |
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| Putting the Targeting Criteria Into Action | |
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| Walking Our Talk in the Neighborhoods: Going Beyond Lip Service in Service Delivery Improvement | |
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| Reasons We Need New Approaches to Human Services Delivery | |
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| Reasons for Forming Professional/Natural Helper Partnerships | |
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| Reasons We Need Natural Helpers | |
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| Reasons We Need Professionals | |
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| Challenges in Developing and Maintaining Professional/Natural Helper Partnerships | |
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| One Example of a Professional/Natural Helper Partnership | |
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| A Few of the Unanswered Questions | |
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| Evaluation in a Dynamic Environment: Assessing Change When Nothing Is Constant | |
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| Historical Development in the Evaluation of Family-Centered Services | |
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| Current Applications: Methods and Meanings | |
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| The Future in Evaluation of Family-Based Services--The Next Steps | |
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| Multisystemic Therapy: Theory, Research, and Practice | |
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| Theoretical Underpinnings | |
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| Clinical Features | |
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| Outcome Studies | |
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| Current and Future Directions | |
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| Reclaiming a Family-Centered Services Reform Agenda | |
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| The Waning of the Family-Centered Services Reform Movement | |
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| Revitalizing the Family-Centered Services Reform Movement | |
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| Shaping the Future of Family-Centered Services: Competition or Collaboration? | |
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| Threats from Without: Privatization and Managed Care | |
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| Threats from Within | |
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| Countervailing Forces | |
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| The Future of Family-Centered Services | |