Craig Childress PsyD – Do over

I’m too anxious to get any work done, and I’m too anxious because of all the work I’m doing. So I can’t do the work I’m doing. That’s annoying.

I get excited as the information coalesces, too excited. I have to get up and do something and I start to wander around… thinking and wandering aimlessly to release the energy of anxiety excitement.

I don’t know which it is – it’s just restless from the ideas, I gotta get up but when I get up I’m not getting anything done.

So I’ll talk to you to release the energy at the same time I’m sitting… so maybe I can get back to work.

I know what I want to talk about this Sunday over Coffee – the Conflict of Interest. Oh, and the under-line that’s emerging from that. We are headed for a point of collision between a thought disorder and reality.

This should be interesting. The pathogen hides – and – it seeks allies. The trick is to expose the pathogen in the allies

Exposing the pathogen in the parent is easy – its exposing the pathogen’s allies that’s the tricky part. We’re there now.

I wanna talk about that. In fact, I want to release and have some fun. I don’t need to be “productive” all the time now, I can indulge myself now.

And I’m going to, I’m going to allow myself some throw-off Sunday Coffees just for me.

I’ve hired an intern from UW who’s getting course credit for helping me out – and money – a paid internship, she lucked out.

She’s produced a list of all my YouTube “titles” – with her next instructions to retrieve the transcripts from the ones I select. Then we’re going to reverse-engineer them into books and booklets of various sorts.

I should say more about secret decoder rings stuff – the red pill of understanding. I should start ‘writing’ an audio-visual book about The Pathogen’s Source Code.

Debate. That will be one of the lines I’ll be developing: The Role of Forensic & Clinical Psychology in the Family Courts. I’ll represent for Clinical Psychology… now all we need is someone to represent for Forensic Psychology.

Dr. Saini? He’s President of the AFCC. How about him?

Or Dr. Pickar, he’s on the Board of Directors for the AFCC and he’s on the Editorial Board for their journal, the Family Court Review, how about him?

Or how about either Dr. Simon or Dr. Stahl, either one, they literally wrote the book (two Editions) on how to conduct a forensic custody evaluation, how about one of them to represent for Forensic Psychology’s role in the family courts?

How about Dr. Deutsch or Dr. Sullivan, they’re both prominent long-time forensic custody evaluators?

That’s six options. You should be able to find ONE of those forensic psychologists who is willing to defend what they do – hosted by the AFCC.

You know I’m a member now, right? I wasn’t a member before for… well… reasons. I didn’t want to trigger things too early. I want to trigger them now.

They’ve wanted to avoid me… which suited me just fine. The lion is a stalking hunter. When you see the lion, the hunt is already over. Howdy, I’m Dr. Childress, pleased to meet you.

I’ve got some things to do first. I need to get back to work.

This Sunday I’m going to indulge myself in reflective insights, it’s the Mirror after all. We have reached the Conflict of Interest stage, that’s the final one before the fall.

Forensic custody evaluations are ending. That… is simply a fact. Clinical diagnostic assessments are coming. That too is a fact.

When the forensic custody evaluations go away – and they will – all, all, all, of the forensic custody evaluators go with them because that’s all they know how to do.

It’s an evolutionary thing of specialized niches – they can be productive until… something changes, then they completely collapse because they’re too specialized to their niche.

Demand for forensic custody evaluations will disappear – and – they will face increasing scrutiny which will expose that which is hidden. Oh my, what’s hidden is a nightmare of bad.

Are you ready for a nightmare of bad before Christmas? Okay, I can do that if you want. Or how about sometime in 2025? Debate: The Role of Forensic & Clinical Psychology in the Family Courts hosted by the AFCC.

I’ll represent for Clinical Psychology, and Saini, Pickar, Stahl, Simon, Deutsch, Sullivan, or someone else can represent for Forensic Psychology.

I think a Debate on that topic would be great, don’t you? So… let’s do that. Saini’s President of the AFCC and Pickar’s on the Board of Directors, if they want the AFCC to sponsor a Debate – it’s sponsored.

Look, if I’m wrong, they get to humiliate me with their superior knowledge and understanding – and – if I’m right, I get to humiliate then with their ignorance and failure. It should be fun.

A 90-minute online moderated Debate – they can go first – they can describe the Role of Forensic Psychology in the family courts for ten minutes, then I can do the same for the Role of Clinical Psychology in the family courts – that’s the opening 20 minutes.

Then the moderator goes through a set of predetermined topic areas giving each side ten minutes to present on that topic from their point of view:

Opening Statement – Forensic – Clinical

Determining Best Interests of the Child – Forensic – Clincal

Risk Assessments & Duty to Protect – Forensic – Clinical

Ethical Standards 2.01 & 2.04 – Forensic – Clinical

That’s 80 minutes, now each side gets a 5 minute Closing Statement and we have a 90-minute Debate: The Role of Forensic and Clinical Psychology in the Family Courts.

Then a 30-minute moderated Q&A with submitted questions from the audience presented by the moderator.

Online so everyone can see and know the issues involved. I think that’s a good idea, don’t you?

I do. Let’s do that. I’m in.

Craig Childress, Psy.D.

Clinical Psychologist, CA PSY 18857