Intervention within child welfare services (YP) is influenced by different discourses and intervention paradigms that are associated with injunctions that may or may not be in contradiction. This article aims to answer the following question: how do YP workers deal with the contradictions that exist between the different discourses that influence practices in situations of psychological maltreatment? 12 semi-structured interviews were conducted with people working at different stages of the YP intervention. The results of the qualitative analyses show several contradictions between professional discourse and the imperatives associated with legal and managerial discourse. Several contradictions were also identified in relation to the feminist discourse in situations of exposure to domestic violence. We look at the ways in which the various discourses used by the people we met coexist and their practical and theoretical implications. Finally, we discuss the implications of the dialogical impasse observed between the dominant discourses, the professional discourse, and the feminist discourse.