The first edition helped bring the family approach to health care into the medical mainstream. This new edition, like the first, provides health care professionals with a practical guide to working with and treating both the individual patient and the family. Tackling challenging and emerging issues, such as AIDS and the family, race and gender, child abuse and domestic violence in addition to pregnancy, child behavior and chronic illness, this volume is sure to be an indispensable guide for primary care providers.

Creating new universities and gaining accreditation is one of the most exciting education challenges in a century of knowledge and innovation. The authors of this book have met this challenge and created a resource in which the policies, procedures, curriculum and planning is mapped out in specific detail.

This comprehensive guide to the future of therapy in collaborative practice combines a broad perspective with consideration of the detail.