This text is applicable for undergraduate and graduate students studying how to help children, including pre-med, nursing, psychology, special education, music education, social work, counseling, and family studies, parks and recreation, as well as professionals from these disciplines.

This book presents System of Care as a construct applicable to several professions, nursing, social work, recreation therapy, juvenile justice, education, pre-med psychiatry and human development and family studies. This is applicable to each of those professional training programs, and it is also beneficial for each to know of the applicability of this approach from the various perspectives of the other professions. It  has chapters that provide case studies and references to research. It has chapters that describe the challenges of installing family-centered service delivery into service agencies, the challenge of policy change implementation, and the complexity of providing services to children and families with complex needs.