If a psychologist uses the terms – “parental alienation” – “resist-refuse dynamic” – “Parent-Child Contact Problems” – they are ignorant – they lack knowledge or information.
Google ignorant: lack of knowledge or information
The reason they have to use made-up pathology labels is because they are ignorant about real things – they are awful psychologists – ignorant like a rock.
It’s the trans-generational transmission of trauma. It’s child psychological abuse (DSM-5 V995.51). It’s attachment pathology, a problem in love-and-bonding. It’s spousal abuse using the child as the weapon (DSM-5 V995.82). It’s a cross-generational coalition and emotional cutoff (Minuchin, Bowen, Haley, Madanes; family systems). It’s a shared (induced) persecutory delusion (DSM-5 297.1). It’s a false (factitious) attachment pathology imposed on the child for secondary gain to the allied parent (FDIA: DSM-5 300.19).
There’s a lot of things it is – real things – diagnosable and treatable things.
Unless… you don’t know what those things are. If you lack knowledge and information about real things, you have to hide your ignorance behind things you simply make-up – like “parental alienation” – “resist-refuse dynamic” – “Parent-Child Conflict Problems.”
Here’s a tip… if a pathology exists ONLY in the family courts, it’s not a real pathology. Use the DSM-5 to identify (diagnose) pathology. Start there.
DSM-5 297.1 Delusional Disorder (shared); persecutory type.
DSM-5 300.19 Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another
DSM-5 V995.51 Child Psychological Abuse
DSM-5 V995.82 Spouse or Partner Abuse, Psychological
Start with applying the established knowledge of the DSM-5 diagnostic system to identify (diagnose) what the problem (pathology) is.
If you still need new forms of pathology to explain what the pathology is – then – and only then – propose your new “resist-refuse dynamic” as a new pathology unique in all of mental health.
After applying the DSM-5. Not before. Not instead of. After applying established knowledge. Start with the DSM-5.
We need standards – forensic custody evaluators are the worst psychologists imaginable – ignorant like a rock.
It’s a “tell” on professional ignorance. If the professional has to use made-up pathology labels… they lack knowledge or information… they are ignorant by definition of the English language.
If you, the patient, have to explain the pathology to the doctor, the doctor lacks knowledge or information… they are ignorant by definition of the English language.
How did you wind up with so many ignorant and incompetent doctors in the family courts? Just lucky?
Luck had nothing to do with it. They were allowed to experiment on you and your children with a new assessment approach they call a “forensic custody evaluation” – it was a complete failure.
Their experiment failed. They left the practice of healthcare to enter a quasi-judicial role. That was a wrong thing for doctors to do.
The gave themselves permission to make up an entirely new type of assessment – not a diagnostic assessment as is done in all the rest of healthcare – the forensic psychologists decided to do something… different.
Clinical psychologists identify (diagnose) what the problem is and then they fix the problem (treatment).
Forensic custody evaluators do something different. They DON’T identify (diagnose) what the problem is and they DON’T fix it (treatment).
That is different – NOT to identify the problem and NOT to fix the problem IS different than what other doctors do, that’s for sure. It’s also entirely worthless.
Clinical psychologists diagnose child abuse when it is present, and clinical psychologists protect the child.
Forensic custody evaluators do something different. They DON’T diagnose child abuse when it is present (they don’t diagnose anything) and they DON’T protect the child from child abuse.
That too, is different – and dangerous to children.
They experimented on you and your children with a new approach to assessment and service delivery… for you alone. Their experiment failed – miserably failed – completely failed.
As a result of their failed experiment, the lives of thousands and thousands of children and parents were irrevocably destroyed.
While the forensic custody evaluations made money – lots of money – from their failed experiment on you and your children.
Did they tell you it was an experimental approach? Did they tell you that you had an alternative, a clinical diagnostic assessment of the problem? Or did they ONLY offer you ONE choice, their experimental approach to assessment that they simply made-up?
The forensic custody evaluators withheld clinical diagnostic assessments from the courts and parents – giving courts and parents ONLY one choice – their experimental approach to assessment… that they simply made-up.
It failed.
Lives – children’s lives – were irrevocably destroyed as a result.
Why were they allowed to experiment on children and parents?
Why are they allowed to continue?
They are ignorant, incompetent, and unethical. They are the worst psychologists imaginable… and they are all you have. How did you get so lucky?
Why are you the only parents for any pathology who must educate your doctors about what the pathology is?
Craig Childress, Psy.D.
Clinical Psychologists, CA PSY 18857
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