Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- About the Editors: The Handbook of Systemic Family Therapy -- Editor-in-Chief -- Associate Editors -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- References -- Volume 4 Preface: Systemic Family Therapy and Global Health Issues -- Reference -- Foreword -- Part I Overview -- Chapter 1 A Systemic Conceptualization of Interventions with Families in a Global Context -- The Systemic Inclusive Framework and its Applications to GMH -- Concluding Thoughts -- Note – References -- Chapter 2 Family-Based Mental Health Services in Low- and Middle-Income Countries -- The Global Mental Health Movement -- Obstacles to Obtaining Mental Health Services -- Trends in Global Mental Health -- Family Systems' Therapies in LMICs -- Practical Ways for Family Therapists to Contribute to Global Mental Health -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 The Glocal Family: Exploring Its International Variations Using a Family Systems Framework -- "We Greenlandic Are Not Seen by Danish as Equals": Qannappi -- Family Change Across Cultures: Influence of Cadence and Context -- Contemporary Family Forms -- Invisibility of Minority and Nontraditional Families: Clinical Need for Inclusivity -- New Families: Challenges and Opportunities -- Systems Framework for Family: Five Contemporary Forces -- Cultural Framework: Improving the Well-Being of Families -- The Family Systems Framework -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4 Culturally Sensitive Measures of Family Therapy -- Measuring Family Therapy Is Essential -- Two Different Approaches -- Outcome Rating Scale and Session Rating Scale (Adult and Child Versions) -- The SCORE Measure of Family Functioning and Change -- Future Implications and Requirements of Culturally Sensitive Measures -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Outcome and Session Rating Scales -- Appendix B: The SCORE-15 Index of Family Functioning and Change -- References -- Chapter 5 Whose Culture Is It Anyway? A Social Constructionist Approach to Researching Families -- Culture and Systemic Family Therapy: It's Complicated -- Analysis -- Discussion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 6 Ambiguous Loss: Theory-Based Guidelines for Therapy with Individuals, Families, and Communities -- What Is Ambiguous Loss? -- The Story of Ambiguous Loss: Where Did the Idea Come From?3 -- What Ambiguous Loss Is Not -- Therapeutic Implications for Using Ambiguous Loss Theory to Guide Work with Families of the Missing -- Therapy and Interventions for Ambiguous Loss: Physical or Psychological -- Community-Based Therapy: The Example of 9/11 -- Future Directions in Research, Application, and Training -- Summary -- Notes -- References -- Part II Severe Family Disruption -- Chapter 7 The Ecology of Family Violence: Treating Cultural Contexts and Relationship Processes -- Systems, Ecosystems, and Complexity