What a mess in our legal system.
The focus of everyone is on our legal system both as it functions and what a mess it is.
That’s good for us here in the family courts because… the family courts are a mess too.
It’s not the judges. Engoran was an honest broker who runs a trial fairly, Chutkin is an honest broker who runs a trial fairly. Merchan is an honest broker who runs a trial fairly.
Cannon on the documents trial may be biased by her political loyalties… which goes to show the system is not pure of personal motivations.
But for the most part, while recognizing possible bias issues with human judges, I’m not holding the judge’s responsible for the failure of professional psychology.
The failure is psychology’s not the court’s failure – and it’s professional psychology who’s failed – massively failed – the children, their parents, and the courts.
The courts do what the courts do, it’s the psychologists who’ve failed in their obligations. First we need to fix the broken mental health system response, and then we use the fixed mental health system to fix the broken legal system.
Two steps: one we fix the healthcare response, two we fix the legal system response based on the fixed mental health system.
We’re riding the winds of a tornado – the legal system’s swirling – wheee – let’s swirl too into changes that make things better, faster, easier, smoother, without all the fighting.
The moment a “high-conflict” triggering criteria is met, we should be routinely bumping out all the court-involved custody cases for a mental health risk assessment for child abuse to the differential diagnoses of concern for each parent – each litigant in the proceeding.
Both litigants – both parents – are making allegations of child abuse against the other. So… let’s get that properly assessed to the concerns of both litigants – both parents.
That’s easy. That’s simple. That’s better.
Just routinely bump-out high-conflict custody cases for a risk assessment to the differential diagnoses of concern – authentic child abuse – or – a shared (induced) persecutory delusion, i.e., child psychological abuse.
One way or the other it’s child abuse… so… let’s just pop it out to the mental health people for a proper risk assessment for the child abuse concerns of each litigant – each parent.
In four to six weeks we could have a returned diagnosis for around $2,500 – $5,000 with a second opinion, and I’d recommend we get a second opinion all all court-involved custody conflict assessments.
The appellate system for a disputed diagnosis in healthcare is second opinion. Rather than get a second opinion sequentially which just wastes a lot of time – get a second opinion simultaneously through telehealth (or from a case consultation group with other court-involved professionals).
We should always be getting a second-opinion on court-involved diagnoses because… we need to end the fighting surrounding these children… AND… we need an accurate diagnosis 100% of the time.
The pathological parent manipulates the court system for delay-delay-delay, all the while increasing the pathology in the child, deepening their psychological hold on the child.
This is child abuse. This is the threatened overthrow of American democracy. The legal system needs to move faster in response to child abuse. We can do that when there’s the motivation to do that.
Is the Supreme Court motivated to protect the nation?
We’re swirling in a cyclone of parallel process everywhere, a truly chaotic and turbulent flow. Hold on. Let go because there’s nothing to on to.
There are lines moving – lines of entangled meanings, lines of entangled motivations. A pathogen, like Covid of our minds, is in active inflammation within us.
It’s a pathogen we’ve seen before. Last time, we defeated the pathogen through violence. Now, this time, it’s within us rather than out there.
It’s come again to its purpose. It’s evolved since the last time. This time, instead of attacking us from the outside, it’s attacking us from the inside. It has us attacking ourselves,
The legal system is swirling. It’s time for change.
We need to protect all children from all forms of child abuse 100% of the time. We can do that when there’s the motivation to do that.
They’re not currently motivated to do that.
Craig Childress, Psy.D.
Clinical Psychologist, CA PSY 18857
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