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

英国的家庭毒品和酒精法庭（FDAC）为普通的对抗性公法诉讼提供了一种激进的选择。在治疗法学原则的支持下（Winick和Wexler， 2001），英国连续的FDAC评估浪潮发现，这些治疗法院为家庭提供了更好的体验和结果。与美国的证据一致，FDAC提供了更高的药物滥用停止率和家庭团聚率（Harwin et al. 2014; 2016）。与标准护理程序相比，治疗法庭提供高度协调的治疗反应，其基础是仔细匹配父母对服务的需求，并通过定期的非律师法庭听证会进行监督。在普通诉讼程序中，重点主要是审查支持或反对对儿童下达命令的证据。父母滥用药物是父母来到家庭法庭，冒着孩子被转移到国家护理机构的风险的关键原因之一。鉴于护理程序的数量在过去十年中增加了一倍多，寻找解决办法迫在眉睫。

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.