Abstract: Inter-parental conflict has a severe negative effect on children's mental and behavioral adaption. Recently, more and more intervention programs in this regard have been developed to improve children's mental health, and the existent ones can be divided into two categories: programs for divorced families and for intact families. Some programs are didactic and focus on information sharing, while others stress skill training; some pay more attention to communicating and conflict solving, while others care more about co-parenting. Overall, positive effects have been proved in those programs, although some of which are not designed rigorously enough nor studied well on their results . This paper proposes that future researchers in China can design intervention programs more suitable for Chinese families; explore and implement some preventive interventions for divorced families; use multiple research methods to explore the effects, active ingredients and mechanism of interventions.

Key words: inter-parental conflict, intervention programs, divorced family, co-parenting, intervention effects