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Therapeutic Intervention With Poor, Unorganized Families: From Distress to Hope ReviewPoverty was also a reality in Biblical times, but the term "multiproblem families" was first used and introduced by Isaac Hoffman, the research director of the Wilder Foundation in St. Paul, Minnesota, in the 1950s. The authors of this book are from Israel, Shlomo A Sharlin, director at the Center for Research and Study of the Family, School of Social Work, Haifa University and Michal Shamai, director of the Social Work department, Tel-Chai College. The book is the result of intensive work through the 1990s with 35 families in extreme distress (FED) from the Northern part of Israel. The project has resulted in the development of a Families in Extreme Distress Scale used to detect the families by the examination of nine different areas: poverty, housing, health, couple functioning, parental functioning, children, substance abuse, antisocial behavior and support systems. The authors also learned the importance of home visiting (instead of inviting the clients to the Social Service Department), the use of a therapeutic team (instead of working alone), working in a dialogue with the family (instead of imposing solutions on the family) and to use many work techniques with the families (instead of using only one model). The book has a good historic review on research with multi-problem families, discussion of moving from theory to practice with different intervention models and a detailed description of the families that they worked with. The experience from this work can be replicated, but most importantly the book gives guidelines for keeping the hope that it is worthwhile to keep working with families in distress. The book will be very helpful for the worker in the field, for the researcher and the teacher involved with social work, family and child care. Professor Joav Merrick, MD, DMSc Medical Director, Division for Mental Retardation, Box 1260, IL-91012 Jerusalem, Israel. E-mail: jmerrick@aquanet.co.ilTherapeutic Intervention With Poor, Unorganized Families: From Distress to Hope Overview

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