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Service delivery systems for maltreating parents need to be comprehensive, integrated, and coordinated in order to address the ecological, developmental, and psychotherapeutic needs of maltreating families. This article presents a center-based, intensive model of intervention for multi problem, maltreating families. The program described addresses the needs of the entire family: incorporates the evaluation and treatment of the child's, as well as the parent's, development: and provides services in a multifamily group milieu. The following interventions are integrated in the treatment approach: (I) family milieu approach. (2) assistance with functioning of she "parental ego,' (3) traditional therapies, and (4) developmental-structuralist approach to parent-child interaction. Challenges encountered and solutions employed in working with maltreating families are discussed. A detailed case study is presented to illustrate the types of interventions used. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]