Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter One. Introduction -- Chapter Two. Towards a dynamic model of discourse -- Chapter Three. Defining power -- Chapter Four. Intervention as interruption in social science research -- Chapter Five. Types of verbal intervention in family discourse -- Chapter Six. Latent and emergent networks -- Chapter Seven. Status in the emergent network -- Chapter Eight. Interventions and the negotiation of status and power -- Chapter Nine. Intervention research in and beyond family discourse -- Notes -- References -- Author and subject index -- Backmatter