The chapter describes a focused, structured approach to a social work intervention for helping families with or without the compliance of the identified patient. The chapter reviews selected intervention models and uses illustrative cases to discuss the ways those models have been used effectively. These models include the active-oriented intervention model, which involves five steps: gather the intervention team, gather the data, rehearse, establish logistics of meeting, and decide whether a professional should be involved. Guiding principles in the task-centered approach include maintaining a problem focus, understanding the context, emphasizing problem resolution and action, establishing a collaborative relationship between family and clinician, and maintaining time sensitivity. The three components characterizing structural systems engagement are: a view of the family as interactive, coresponsible and interdependent; repetitive, normative patterns, both functional and dysfunctional; and treatment as a highly focused way of intervening with simplicity and clinician responsibility for change. References