Family Systems – Craig Childress , PsyD

I used this descriptive diagram of Minuchin’s Structural family diagram in my recent review of a forensic custody evaluation.

Honest to god, how lazy a psychologist do you have to be to not even learn about family systems when you’re assessing a family conflict for the court.

I have to educate them, the psychologists. I have to educate them about family pathology before I can have a professional-level discussion with them – they are ignorant like a rock – and immensely lazy and apathetic.

Easy prey on the savanna. I suspect that my presence within the herd of forensic psychologists will soon be signaled and they’ll start to panic and flee – a wild stampede.

I think you have a RICO lawsuit on them, but I’m not an attorney, just a psychologist looking at my own people’s behavior.

It looks like the parallel process may go RICO on Trump in Georgia. I’m not a lawyer – thank god – but it looks like a RICO lawsuit for professional psychology in the family courts is warranted from where I sit as psychologist, with the AFCC and APA as the deep-pocket co-conspirators, and I’d add the 50 state licensing boards all for the cover-up.

Ultimately, you can drop the APA and licensing boards, but put them on to start. If they created Guidelines for forensic custody evalutations, then they placed their imprimatur of credibility on the practice – they take responsibility for it if they support it.

The AFCC is definitely on the hook. I think the APA is too. I’d even put the licensing boards on it – it was their job to ensure competence and ethical practice – why did they fail? Pull the string – RICO.

Just the discovery alone on the AFCC and APA regarding what they know about the unethical practices in forensic psychology would be interesting – the NY Blue Ribbon Commission on Forensic Custody Evaluations found serious problems… why are the AFCC and APA unaware of these problems?

Perhaps they’re not unaware. Perhaps they’re covering up.

Deutsch? Pull the string on the Petition to the APA signed by over 20,000 parents… where did that go? Who did they give the Petition to? What did they do about the ethical violations called to their attention? Cover up.

They know. They just don’t care… until they do.

Oh well, not my worry, RICOs come and RICOs go, I’m only a lone clinical psychologist in private practice doing what I do because it’s what I do… I protect children from child abuse. I’m a trauma psychologist out of foster care, look at my vitae, I’m not from the family courts.

That’s why I’m here, this my pathology – child abuse and complex trauma. There is active child abuse in the family courts, and active spousal abuse using the child as the weapon – both undiagnosed – both untreated.

There’s active child abuse and active spousal abuse in the family courts… and no one is stopping it.

There are dark personality parents in the family courts – Dark Triad – Vulnerable Dark Triad – Dark Tetrad – the core of evil (Book et al., 2015; 2016)… undiagnosed and untreated.

Professional psychology in the family courts is a mess. It always has been, it’s just becoming visible now as their house of financial exploitation collapses.

One-by-one. I’m in the courts now, reviewing their reports one-by-one, line-by-line. I’m here to protect my kids.

I’m here to protect my children from their abusers. Not the other parent, they’re just pathological. I’m here to protect the children and the healthy parent from their psychological abuse by their betrayers – the ones who should protect… and don’t.

My people. My psychology people are the child abusers. My-oh-my, that should NEVER happen. But it has. So one-by-one I’ll protect my kids from the ignorance and incompetence of the forensic psychologists.

But then you’ll have no one. Get ready for the collapse.

The clinical psychologists have abandoned you – the pathology and family courts are too dangerous to their license. Forensic psychology has merely exploited you for your money and destroyed your life and the lives of your children.

When forensic psychology collapses (NY Blue Ribbon Commission), there will be no involvement of professional psychology in the family courts. I’d suggest you file a RICO to get the attention of the APA, AFCC, the 50 state licensing boards, and major media.

Do what you want with the lawsuit after that – once the argument is made, the point is made and you have their attention to the point you’re making.

The parents and children in the family courts deserve – deserve – competent mental health services. The court deserves – deserves – the highest caliber of professional information to rely on in making its momentous decisions affecting the lives of children.

So… let’s do that. It can be done – easy peasy – a pilot program for the family courts with university involvement for evaluation research. Develop the standardized high-quality diagnostic assessment and treatment protocols for the pathology in the family courts, layer-in early intervention – voila – done.

They’re just not motivated to solve anything. I wonder why that is?

Here’s an additional explanatory diagram to help you explain the pathology to your doctors – honest to god, they are ignorant like a rock. Ignorant, incompetent, unethical, and just plain lazy.

And their yours – your own “special” psychologists just for you. No other pathology has their own “special” psychologists… just you. Lucky you. Why is that?

Craig Childress, Psy.D.

Clinical Psychologist, CA PSY18857