Understanding and Supporting 'Families with Complex Needs'

`Families with complex needs who experience both a breadth of interrelated or interconnected needs and a depth of profound severe serious or intense needs (Rankin and Regan 2004) are most reliant on services and support. This might include families affected by mental health needs disability caring responsibilities migration and asylum seeking criminal behavior drug and alcohol misuse and so on. This edited text considers how such families form and experience contemporary life and how such understandings might inform policy and practice responses. Specific contributions include examining models and approaches to family-based policy and service provision and drawing on fieldwork and analyses in a wide variety of countries and contexts with particular emphasis on Latin America.