Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction: overview of child welfare services and empirical support / Allen Rubin -- The incredible years: evidence-based parenting and child programs for families involved in the child welfare system / Carolyn Webster-Stratton and M. Jamila Reid -- Multisystemic therapy for child abuse and neglect / Cynthia Cupit Swenson and Cindy M. Schaeffer -- Implementing multidimensional treatment foster care (MTFC) / Rena Gold and Cynthia Heywood -- Parent-child interaction therapy: implementing and sustaining a treatment program for families of young children with disruptive behavior disorders / Larissa N. Niec, Sheila Eyberg, and Rhea M. Chase -- The coping power program: child welfare applications / John E. Lochman ... [et al.] -- Coping cat: a cognitive-behavioral treatment for childhood anxiety disorders / Shannon E. Hourigan ... [et al.] -- The Theraplay treatment program: description and implementation of attachment-based play for children and caregivers / Dafna Lender, Phyllis B. Booth, and Sandra Lindaman -- Trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy for children / Allen Rubin -- EMDR for the treatment of children in the child welfare system who have been traumatized by abuse and neglect / Robbie Adler-Tapia -- Project support: reducing conduct problems of children in violent families / Laura Minze, Renee McDonald, and Ernest N. Jouriles -- Dissemination and implementation of child-parent psychotherapy: collaboration with community programs / Miriam Hernandez Dimmler ... [et al.] -- Global goals and specific skills: integrating motivational interviewing into child welfare practice / Melinda Hohman and Bill James -- Maternal alcohol and drug abuse: effective case management with high-risk mothers and their children / Therese Grant -- The HOMEBUILDERSʼ model of intensive family-preservation services / Charlotte L. Booth and Shelley E. Leavitt -- Using 1-2-3 Magic in child welfare / Thomas W. Phelan -- SafeCare: application of an evidence-based program to prevent child maltreatment / Anna Edwards-Gaura ... [et al.] -- Parenting wisely: enhancing wise practice for service providers / Robert E. Pushak and Donald A. Gordon -- The nurturing parenting programs: preventing and treating child abuse and neglect / Stephen J. Bavolek and Rhenda Hotard Hodnett -- Parenting and child maltreatment as public health issues: implications from the Triple P system of intervention / Matthew R. Sanders, Ronald J. Prinz, and Cheri Shapiro.