Craig Childress PsyD , Professionals

Oh my goodness, if you’re a mental health professional working in the family courts, I should NOT have to explain the pathology to you in order to have a professional-level discussion with you about your patient-client.

You should already know.

Do you know what that’s called? Competence. Basic competence.

If I have to educate you before I can discuss the pathology with you, you’re not even competent yet. Go learn about the pathology first before – before – before – you start to work with it.

Before.

Don’t be here working with pathology if you don’t even know what the pathology is. Nope, don’t do it. If you don’t know what you’re doing, do you know what that’s called?

Incompetent.

You’re not allowed to be incompetent. That hurts people a lot when you don’t know what you’re doing. There are even ethical Standards that say “don’t be incompetent” – they are the Boundaries of Competence Standards in every ethics code.

Don’t do it. Don’t be an unethical, ignorant, incompetent mental health person. It’s just going to get you into trouble. Learn what the pathology is – first – learn how to fix it – first – then come work with the pathology in the family courts.

If you’re a mental health professional and I have to educate you about the pathology in order to have a professional-level discussion with you about your patient – that’s just wrong, wrong, wrong. You should already know.

I’m not an expert, I’m just a clinical psychologist who is competent in the pathology I work with. I was trained at Children’s Hospital. Do you know what the standard for competence is there, the standard I was trained to?

Competence – basic competence – is to know everything there is to know about the pathology, and then read journals to remain current.

Everything. Not most things. Everything about the pathology.

Is that too much? Then go away, because that’s the standard. I’m not the ceiling, I’m the floor. If you don’t know as much as Dr. Childress about this pathology, why not?

Are you just lazy? Must be. I’m not lazy. This is child abuse pathology. Know where you are. Don’t be lazy or don’t be here. Because if you’re here, you need to know what you’re doing.

You need to know what the pathology is, and you need to know how to fix it.

The Age of Ignorance is over.

Craig Childress, Psy.D.
Clinical Psychologist, CA PSY 18857

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Author: GreatCosmicMothersUnited

I have joined with many parents affected with the surreal , yet accepted issue of child abuse via Pathogenic Parenting / Domestic abuse. As a survivor of Domestic Abuse, denial abounded that 3 sons were not affected. In my desire to be family to those who have found me lacking . As a survivor of psychiatric abuse, therapist who abused also and toxic prescribed medications took me to hell on earth with few moments of heaven. I will share my life, my experiences and my studies and research.. I will talk to small circles and I will council ; as targeted parents , grandparents , aunts , uncles etc. , are denied contact with a child for reasons that serve the abuser ...further abusing the child. I grasp the trauma and I have looked at the lost connection to a higher power.. I grasp when one is accustomed to privilege, equality can feel like discrimination.. Shame and affluence silences a lot of facts , truths that have been labeled "negative". It is about liberation of the soul from projections of a alienator , and abuser ..

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