I. Child Mental Health Fundamentals in Family Context 1. The Child in Family Therapy: Guidelines for Active Engagement across the Age Span, Tanya B. White and Richard Chasin 2. Development in Family Contexts, Geri Fox 3. Guidelines for a Family Assessment Protocol, Edith Catlin Lawrence 4. Family Therapy in an Age of Biological Psychiatry: Diagnostic and Treatment Considerations, Allan M. Josephson 5. The Biology of Family Culture, Douglas A. Kramer II. Different Family Structures 6. Two-Parent Families, or How To Love a Two-Headed Monster, Douglas A. Kramer 7. Successful African American Single-Parent Families, Marion Lindblad-Goldberg 8. Remarried Systems, Mary F. Whiteside 9. Children in Foster Families, Kim Sumner-Mayer III. Children in Families Facing Specific Challenges 10. Children with Chronic Illness and Physical Disabilities, Judith A. Libow 11. Families with Children with Disrupted Attachments, Lee Combrinck-Graham and Susan B. McKenna 12. Children of Parents with Mental Illness, Alan Cooklin 13. The Invisible Illness: Children in Alcoholic Families, Stuart A. Copans 14. Families Coping with the Death of a Parent: The Therapist's Role, Joan C. Barth IV. Families and Larger Systems 15. The Family's Own System: The Symbolic Context of Health, David V. Keith 16. Partners for Success: A Collaborative Project in School-Based Mental Health Practice and Training, Phebe Sessions and Verba Fanolis 17. Children in Placement: A Place for Family Therapy, Ann Itzkowitz 18. The Family and the Legal System: The Search for an Intelligent Integration, G. Pirooz Sholevar V. Larger Issues Affecting Children in Families 19. A Model for Disrupting Cycles of Violence in Families with Young Children, John Brendler 20. Of Two Worlds: Working with Children in Immigrant Families, Veronica Barenstein and Ema Genijovich 21. The Many Cultures of Child Protection, Begum Maitra