Editor Keith Davies presents students, academics, researchers, and professionals working in a variety of contexts with a collection of academic essays and scholarly articles that examine the roots, significance, and overall effectiveness of the troubled family approach to social work. The seven contributions that make up the main body of the text cover a wide variety of related subjects, including a provider’s perspective on delivering phase one of the troubled families program, the troubled families workforce and occupational identity, the family recovery approach to helping struggling families, and others. Keith Davies is a faculty member of Kingston University in the UK. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)