Volume 4 of the book draws attention to the need to provide therapy for children in vulnerable families that is both skilled and focused. The volume describes a movement away from providing therapy based on diagnoses towards provision of therapy based on assessments of dysfunctional dynamics in families. Adverse parenting practices shown to be associated with common parental mental illnesses are described, and therapy approaches to change these dysfunctional dynamics are described. As mental health clinicians are increasingly being asked to provide therapy that is reportable to courts, steps to provide reportable therapy and to write treatment reports for courts are provided. The volume summarizes innovative therapies implemented by the editor in Australia. The volume provides an oversight of traditional attachment theory, and concludes that as traditional attachment theory has not provided either assessment procedures or therapy procedures that are widely used in Australian family-oriented courts, there is a need for contributions based on a wider range of theoretical approaches.  Concern is expressed in Australia about an emphasis on European-based parenting practices to promote assimilation of indigenous peoples into the mainstream culture, as part of colonization. Traditional parenting practices used by the Māori people of Aotearoa New Zealand are described, together with support services that are used in Aotearoa. This volume includes a glossary of psycho-legal concepts that are used in the four volumes of this book. weiterlesen