Solution-focused therapy -- Motivational interviewing -- Cognitive-behavioral therapy and intervention / Jacqueline Corcoran and Joseph Walsh -- Integration of models -- Phases of the strengths-and-skills-based model -- The helping process of the strengths- and skills-based model -- Learning the model : applications to a hospital setting -- Treatment of adolescents with disruptive behavior disorders / Jacqueline Corcoran and David W. Springer -- Depression / Jacqueline Corcoran and Jane Hanvey Phillips -- Substance abuse / Holly Matto -- The integration of solution-focused and behavioral marital therapies: application to an elderly couple with anxiety / Carrie Becker, Jacqueline Corcoran, and Kristin A. Garell -- The strengths-and-skills-building model: application to women in violent relationships / Jacqueline Corcoran and Holly Bell -- Enhancing motivation, strengths, and skills of parents in the child welfare system / Melinda Hohman, Christine Kleinpeter, and Hilda Loughran -- Working with physical abuse and neglect / Jacqueline Corcoran, Audrey Jones, and Christine Ankerstjerne -- Working with nonoffending parents of sexual abuse victims / Jacqueline Corcoran ... [et al.] -- Measures for assessment and accountability in practice with families from a strengths perspective/ Theresa J. Early and W. Sean Newsome.