Navigating the family court setting to protect teen mental health, meet teens' mental health needs, and promote resilience and coping skills is challenging. We have tools that can help us meet that challenge. That toolkit includes: expanding who is involved in the work to develop a parenting plan or treatment plan; not reducing the case to a one-dimensional fact pattern; restructuring family court proceedings for ongoing problem-solving, providing protections for the teen's privacy; using consensual dispute resolution and adjudication on parallel tracks; and educating the decision makers through expert declarations and Brandeis briefs (even at the trial court level).

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完成任何事情都如此困难：家庭法庭环境中的青少年心理健康

驾驭家庭法庭环境以保护青少年心理健康、满足青少年的心理健康需求并提高适应能力和应对技能是具有挑战性的。我们拥有可以帮助我们应对这一挑战的工具。该工具包包括： 扩大参与制定育儿计划或治疗计划工作的人员；不将案例简化为一维事实模式；重组家庭法庭诉讼程序以持续解决问题，为青少年的隐私提供保护；采用并行的协商一致争议解决和裁决；通过专家声明和布兰代斯案情摘要（甚至在初审法院层面）对决策者进行教育。