Introduction

This book is about hope. Hope for the advanced undergraduate student, graduate student, or practicing mental health care professional reading this text that there are interventions you can learn that will work to help you in your efforts to partner with and help children and families. Hope for funders and policy makers that the money spent on these interventions will result in positive outcomes and lead to desired life changes. And, most important, hope for children and families that treatment is effective, and that children can and do recover from life’s challenges, build resilience, and live full and productive lives.