About the Editors.

List of Contributors.

Foreword by Heather B. Weiss.

Acknowledgements.

PART I: THE NEED FOR INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON.

1. Perspective through International Comparison in the Evaluation of Family Support (John Pinkerton and Ilan Katz).

PART II: UNDERPINNING ISSUES.

2. Political and Technical Issues Facing Evaluators of Family Support (Jane Tunstill).

3. Social Exclusion, Family Support and Evaluation (Corinne May-Chahal, et al.).

4. The Value of Resilience as a Key Concept in Evaluating Family Support (Robbie Gilligan).

5. Issues in Evaluating Family Support Services: An American Perspective (Peter Pecora).

6. Comparative Research as a Method of Evaluating Systems (Rachael Hetherington).

PART III: 'CASE STUDIES' FROM AROUND THE WORLD.

7. National Policy Making and the Need to Evaluate Family Support in the Republic of Ireland (Catherine Hazlett).

8. A Culturally Relevant Model for Evaluating Family Services in Hong Kong (Monit Cheung and Chi-Kwong Law).

9. Lessons from the Evaluation of Fa mily Support in New Zealand (Jackie Sanders and Robyn Munford).

10. A Nationaln Evaluation of Family Support Services: An Evaluation of Services Provided by the NSPCC in the United Kingdom (Ruth Gardner).

11. Empowering Parents: A Two-Generation Intervention in a Community Context in Northern Ireland (Nuala Quiery, et al.).

12. The Indicators Study: An Cross-Site Implementation Evaluation of the Community Partnerships for Protecting Children Initiative in America (Stephen Budde).

13. Policy Roots and Practice Growth: Evaluating Family Support on the West Coast of Ireland (John Canavan and Pat Dolan).

14. The Resourceful Adolescent Project: A Universal Approach to Preventing Adolescent Depression through Promoting Resilience and Family-Well Being in Australia (Ian Shochet and David Ham).

15. Evaluation of the Contact Family Service in Sweden (Gunvor Andersson).

PART IV: TOWARDS AN INTERNATIONAL AGENDA.

16. International Convergence and Divergence: Towards an Open System Model in the Evaluation of Family Support (Ilan Katz and John Pinkerton).

Index.