The American Psychological Association Parenting Coordination Project: Development of the Project and Initial Review of the First Two Years

Abstract

ABSTRACT The American Psychological Association Parenting Coordination Project (PC Project) uses closely supervised advanced graduate students to provide pro bono parenting coordination to low-income families. This paper describes the origin and early development of the project. It also articulates some of the unique challenges this project experienced both in using doctoral students and in providing to low income families a service that has generally only been available to the affluent. Additionally, this paper describes some of the initial outcome data for this project. Judges uniformly rated the project as helpful to the courts, parents, and children. The results with attorneys and guardians ad litem were more mixed, but the negative ratings may reflect the undue influence of a single outlier case.