Mary Shannon should be congratulated for providing a well-written, clear and comprehensive text to support family support practitioners. She gives clear practice tips and provides excellent links between practice, theory and research. Highly recommended for anyone who cares about supporting families in a changing world.

Professor Nick Frost, Leeds Beckett University, UK

Mary Shannon has written a text that will become the key guide for social care and other practitioners working in Family Support contexts. It is also an important contribution to the emerging academic literature on Family Support, with its focus on diversity, disability, adult services especially useful.

Dr John Canavan Senior Lecturer, UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, National University of Ireland, Galway