pt I Foundation for family assessment and intervention: Family contexts -- A framework for understanding families -- The family system -- Intergenerational family systems -- pt II Family assessment and intervention: Family assessment -- Designing family interventions -- Evidence-based practices for strong families and competent parents -- pt III Preparing for family assessment and intervention: Critical and reflective thinking -- Narratives: journaling, letter writing, and stories -- Exploring your own family systems -- pt IV Practicing family assment through case studies: The yellowbird family: foster care, delinquency, and transition to independent living -- The Foxx family: physical abuse, aggression, and parent/child management -- The Sherman family: applying for adoption -- The Fernandez family: supporting an older adult -- The Del Sol family: marital conflict and parenting concerns -- The McCoy family: coping with role change after a mother's death -- The Jacques family: assessment and intervention in intimate partner violence -- Brief case studies: Brittany and her family, Melissa and het family, Jeanine and her family.