Mainstone, an independent consultant, solutions-focused therapist, and educator in the UK, offers a guide to whole-family assessment for social workers working with both children and adults in the UK. She addresses engagement, resilience, family strengths and vulnerabilities, assessing denial and ambivalence, generating knowledge and expertise, the social work and assessment relationship, trust, and rights, responsibilities, and needs; collaboration with families, including communication, bias, theories of change, and abuse; parenthood and parenting capacity; children's experiences and voices, working with them, child development, and the impact of parental behavior; and family relationships, including attachment, assessing emotional harm and neglect, and abuse. The book assumes that readers are familiar with core social work theory and practice methods. It touches on interagency working and diversity, but does not explore these topics in depth. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)