This qualitative study brings together the voices of parents and their representatives, including attorneys, social workers and parent advocates, to understand the lived experiences of child welfare involved parents as they navigate Family Court, and how to improve it. The findings suggest that these courts are difficult to navigate for both parents and their representatives, and are often experienced as punitive and unsupportive spaces. The findings also reveal a strong congruence between how parents and their advocates wish the courts to operate (and how they sometimes do), and the principles of therapeutic jurisprudence (TJ), which recognizes the emotional and psychological toll legal proceedings can take and suggests ways to minimize that harm. Parents' relationship with their judge and the judge's ability to understand and connect with them are identified as transformative factors in the courtroom.

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另一面的观点：父母及其代表如何看待家庭法庭

这项定性研究汇集了家长及其代表（包括律师、社会工作者和家长代言人）的声音，以了解涉及儿童福利的父母在家庭法庭上的生活经历，以及如何改进它。调查结果表明，这些法院对于父母及其代表来说都难以驾驭，并且经常被视为惩罚性和不支持的空间。调查结果还揭示了父母和他们的辩护人希望法院如何运作（以及他们有时如何运作）与治疗法学 (TJ) 原则之间存在很强的一致性，TJ 承认法律诉讼可能带来的情感和心理损失，并提出建议以尽量减少这种伤害。父母与法官和法官的关系”