What is Therapeutic Jurisprudence (TJ)?

By Barbara A. Babb, University of Baltimore School of Law, Associate Professor of Law, and Director, CFCC I founded the Sayra and Neil Meyerhoff Center for Families, Children and the Courts (CFCC) in August, 2000, with Therapeutic Jurisprudence (TJ) as one of its two underlying theoretical constructs. Indeed, TJ informs and frames all of CFCC’s…