Children exposed to co-parents' conflict commonly experience distress and dysfunction. When various therapies and psychoeducational programs fail to adequately resolve this conflict, co-parents are left to bring their disputes into an overburdened and adversarial court system. Directed co-parenting intervention (DCI) offers a new approach to assisting conflicted caregivers to better meet their children's needs. DCI intends to (re)establish consistent, child-centered structures within and between the caregiving environments through parallel interventions in order to relieve the children's emotional burden and keep the family system out of court. DCI is most appropriate for intractably conflicted co-parents with a history of failed conjoint interventions. Counterindications for this intervention and directions for future empirical study are discussed.
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Benjamin D. Garber (2004) studied this question.