This useful guide covers:

• Planning your visit, including the first meeting, scope, recap agreements, using contracts, rewards and sanctions
• when things go wrong and issues beyond control
• what to do when you get stuck and sources of further help.

To complement How to Help Families in Trouble there is a set of free downloadable factsheets covering :
Assessment and tools to use: family trees and ecomaps
Playpacks and activities to use with families
Using contracts in family work
Helping parents help their children to behave well: behaviours, star charts, rewards and discipline
The art of making good referrals

Working well with families can be immensely rewarding and this book is designed to make that possible for all practitioners.