This book lays out the definitions, current issues, and treatments surrounding child abuse and neglect. It also presents various models and perspectives and sums up different social theories; enhancing its title of "multidisciplinary approaches". Although the book discusses the need for a mutidisciplinary team approach,(and even devotes a chapter to the issue) it could have emphasized this to a greater degree and focused more upon conflict resolution among team members. Perhaps the authors could have created a uniform system for setting up a team of professionals with every suspected child abuse case from every point of entry within the group of professionals typically involved with a team. Also guidelines that could be adopted by the social service agencies involved. Maybe that will become the focus for another book.

His even-handedness is very evident in the section entitled "Moral Arguments for and against Abortion." He is not pejorative toward particular philosophies or viewpoints but guides the reader in a reasoned approach to the topic.

Among some of the other topics covered besides psychology & faith are public education, humanism, apologetics, positive thinking, and critical thinking.

Although not a thorough (and perhaps not an entirely convincing) response to such books as William Kilpatrick's "Psychological Seduction," Paul Vitz's "Psychology as Religion" or Dave Hunt's "Beyond Seduction", the book contains information that is absolutely pertinent to the debate over psychology and spirituality.

As your library would be incomplete without Kilpatrick's and Vitz's works, it is incomplete without McMinn & Foster's. Read with attention and care!