FAMILIES INVOLVED IN HIGH-CONFLICT SEPARATION: VIEWS AND NEEDS OF CHILD PROTECTION WORKERS
Families involved in high conflict post separation pose unique challenges for child protection services. This study is based on an online survey of Quebec child protection workers’ (n = 309) experience with high conflict situations. Results show that child protection cases with high conflict families are complicated by workers’ lack of operational definition of high conflict situations and by an unclear mandate of child protection services. Implications for practice include developing both an integrated approach and a differential response to better respond to families involved in high conflict.