This American book asks, "How can child protection professionals build partnerships with parents where there is suspected or substantiated child abuse or neglect?" It offers a solution-oriented model to child protection work, expanding the investigation of risk to encompass signs of safety that can be built upon to stabilize and strengthen the child's and family's situation. For child protection workers, who are involved with vulnerable, at-risk children in volatile situations, it provides practical, hands-on strategies for building a partnership with parents