Do you want to know how much trouble the pathogen is in? Let me tell you how much trouble the pathogen is in.
The allied pathogenic parent and the child are both claiming that the parenting practices of the targeted parent are “abusive” of the child, and that’s why the child doesn’t want to be with this parent.
Abusive? My-oh-my. We want that assessed, don’t we. If a parent is abusing a child, we certainly don’t want that. So if the child and the allied parent are alleging that the other parent is “abusive” of the child, then let’s get that assessed, right?
We’ll need to find someone with background in child abuse, maybe someone who worked with foster care kids, that’s the abused child population, the ones in foster care. Like me.
It’d be really nice to find a senior staff psychologist for children in the foster care system, like the Clinical Director for a three-university collaborative assessment and treatment center for children in the foster care system. Like me.
These forensic psychology people have never worked foster care, they’ve never worked with authentically abused children. They might get it wrong. We want someone with actual direct experience assessing, diagnosing, and treating abused children in the foster care system. Like me.
I am exactly the person the pathogen wants assessing the “abusive” parenting of the targeted-rejected parent. I’m out of foster care, I was the Clinical Director for a three-university assessment and treatment center for children who were abused and placed in foster care.
What about domestic violence? Yeah, that too. Part of working trauma and child abuse is being an expert in IPV spousal abuse. I’ve worked up my share of safety and escape plans for the abused spouse. I’ve even run groups for the parents in domestic violence shelters.
Here’s the entry from my vitae:
Clinical Director
START Pediatric Neurodevelopmental Assessment and Treatment Center
California State University, San Bernardino
Institute of Child Development and Family Relations
Clinical Director for an early childhood assessment and treatment center providing comprehensive developmental assessment and psychotherapy services to children ages 0-5 years old. Directed the clinical operations, clinical staff, and the provision of comprehensive psychological assessment and treatment services across clinic-based, home-based, and school-based services. A three-university collaboration with speech and language services through the University of Redlands, occupational therapy through Loma Linda University, and psychology through Calif. State University, San Bernardino.
We had a contract with the Department of Children’s Services and were funded through the county’s Department of Mental Health, specifically to treat abused children in the foster care system. When a young child was placed in foster care, they were sent to me, to my clinic.
Yep, I’m pretty much spot-on the child abuse expert the pathogen wants. It’s alleging child abuse by the targeted parent, and I’m the “child abuse” psychologist you want assessing child abuse.
Isn’t that ironic? The trauma and child abuse psychologist the pathogen most wants assessing the alleged child abuse… is also the pathogen’s worst nightmare… a knowledgeable clinical psychologist who diagnoses pathology.
The pathogen has three defenses,
1) remain hidden,
2) see allies,
3) attack threats of exposure with great viciousness.
Diagnosis eliminates its primary defense, remaining hidden. The word diagnosis means identify. In common-speak, the term is identify, in psychology-speak it’s diagnosis.
We must first identify what the pathology is before we know how to fix it.
We must first diagnose what the pathology is before we know how to treat it.
identify = diagnosis
fix = treatment
I diagnose pathology. I identify what the pathology is. I’m a clinical psychologist, that’s what I am trained to do, diagnose and treat pathology.
The pathogen does NOT want that, it wants to hide, it doesn’t want me identifying it and exposing it from its hiding.
So while I am the – perfect – psychologist to assess “child abuse” allegations because I come from the child abuse world of the foster care system… the pathogen does NOT want me assessing its allegations of “child abuse.”
Do you know why?
Because it lies. All the time. It’s a symptom of the pathology. Have I mentioned it’s a delusional disorder? A shared persecutory delusion. The non-stop cloud of lies is how it remains hidden. It doesn’t want diagnosis, because there is no child abuse occurring… it’s lying.
The pathogen will accept involvement from an ignorant mental health person who knows nothing about actual trauma and child abuse, because then the lies can deceive the ignorant mental health person.
That’s the forensic psychology people. They’ve never actually worked with authentic child abuse and trauma, so they are easily deceived by the pathogen’s lies.
Yet since the pathogen is alleging “child abuse” by the targeted parent, we need that assessed by someone who has actually worked with authentic child abuse and trauma… like me.
I am exactly the psychologist the pathogen supposedly wants… and I am exactly the psychologist the pathogen most dreads. My-oh-my. Have you noticed a lot of these double-bind things for the pathogen and it’s allies lately? All over the place. No matter which way they move, they’re stuck in a no-win situation.
Sound familiar? No matter what you do you’re stuck? Yeah, I know. It’s a feature of trauma pathology, the double-bind, the no-win situation. Curious that they’re showing up with the pathogen now.
Yep, I don’t think the pathogen wants me doing the assessment, but at the same time, I am EXACTLY the trauma and child abuse expert the pathogen would supposedly want assessing the child abuse pathology.
I told you, the pathogen’s in trouble. It doesn’t like clinical psychologists. We diagnose pathology.
Craig Childress, Psy.D.
Clinical Psychologist, PSY 18857
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