APPLICATION OF A SOCIO-JUDICIAL INTERVENTION PROGRAM IN HIGH CONFLICT SEPARATION SITUATION: WHAT DO PROFESSIONALS THINK?
The purpose of this qualitative study is to document the experience of professionals, who apply a program for parents involved in a high-conflict separation. The objective of the program is to coordinate the intervention of the Directors of Youth Protection and the judicial process, in order to help the parents establish a more functional co-parenting relationship to ensure the safety and development of their child. Thirty professionals participated in individual interviews (i.e., lawyers, judges, coparenting workers and youth protection workers). The analysis describes: 1) the program's perceived effects on families and services and 2) the issues encountered by professionals in applying the program.