Parental experience of The Family Drug and Alcohol Court through a qualitative,longitudinal lens: Why do some parents achieve change

英格兰的家庭毒品和酒精法院(FDAC)为普通的对抗性公法诉讼提供了一个激进的替代方案。在治疗法原则(Winick和Wexler，2001)的支持下，英国FDAC连续几波的评估发现，这些治疗法庭为家庭提供了更好的经验和结果。FDAC提供了更高的药物滥用戒断率和家庭团聚，这与美国的证据一致(Harwin等人。2014年；2016年)。与标准护理程序不同，治疗法庭提供高度协调的治疗反应，其基础是父母的需求与服务的仔细匹配，并由定期的非律师法庭听证会监督。在普通诉讼程序中，焦点主要是审查支持或反对为儿童作出命令的证据。父母滥用药物是父母来到家庭法院并冒着将孩子送进国家看护所的风险的关键原因之一。考虑到护理程序的数量在过去十年中翻了一番多，寻找解决方案的工作迫在眉睫。

The Family Drug and Alcohol Court (FDAC) in England offers a radical alternative to ordinary, adversarial public law proceedings. Underpinned by principles of therapeutic jurisprudence (Winick and Wexler, 2001), successive waves of FDAC evaluation in England have found that these treatment courts offer better experiences and outcomes for families. FDAC delivers higher rates of substance misuse cessation and family reunification, consistent with the US evidence (Harwin et al. 2014; 2016). In contrast to standard care proceedings, treatment courts offer a highly co-ordinated therapeutic response based on careful matching of parental need to services, overseen by regular non-lawyered court hearings. In ordinary proceedings, the focus is largely on examining the evidence for, or against, making of an order for a child. Parental substance misuse is one of the key reasons why parents come before the family courts and risk having their children removed into state care. The search for solutions is pressing given that numbers of care proceedings have more than doubled during the past decade.