Forensic psychologists are in violation of four – 4 – ethical Standards of the American Psychological Association.
They don’t know the necessary knowledge – that’s a violation of Standard 2.01 Boundaries of Competence.
Because they don’t know the necessary knowledge, they don’t apply the established knowledge of the discipline as the bases for their professional judgments – that’s a violation of Standard 2.04 Bases for Scientific & Professional Judgments.
Because they don’t know or apply the necessary knowledge as the bases for their professional judgments (violations to Standards 2.01 & 2.04), their opinions contained in their reports and recommendations are NOT based on information sufficient to substantiate their findings – a violation of Standard 9.01 Bases for Assessment.
Applying the DSM-5 as the bases for professional judgments is a reasonable step for a doctor to take to avoid the foreseeable harm that could result from misdiagnosis if no professional level diagnosis is made – in violation of Standard 3.04 Avoiding Harm.
That is four – 4 – ethical violations where there should be zero.
In addition, the forensic psychologists are routinely failing in their duty to protect on two grounds:
1) failure to protect the child from psychological child abuse (DSM-5 V995.51) by the allied parent,
2) failure to protect the targeted parent from spousal psychological abuse of the allied parent using the child (and the child’s induced pathology) as the spousal abuse weapon.
From Cornell Law School: “Negligence is the failure to behave with the level of care that a reasonable person would have exercised under the same circumstances. Either a person’s actions or omissions of actions can be found negligent. The omission of actions is considered negligent only when the person had a duty to act.”
Forensic psychologists are ignorant. Google ignorance: “lack of knowledge or information.”
Patients are educating the forensic psychologists regarding what the pathology is because the forensic psychologists lack knowledge and information – they are ignorant by definition of the English language.
Forensic psychologists are ignorant, incompetent, and unethical… and they don’t care. Where are the licensing boards enforcing ethical standards? Nowhere to be seen.
Why is that?
If they change, they admit their prior ignorance, incompetence, unethical practice, and negligent failure in their duty to protect obligations.
If they don’t change, then they CONTINUE their ignorant, incompetent, and unethical malpractice, and they continue their negligent failure to protect children from child abuse and their parents from spousal abuse.
Forensic custody evaluations are “dangerous” and “harmful to children”, they “lack scientific or legal value” and their “defective reports” result in “potentially disastrous consequences for parents and children” (NY Blue-Ribbon Commission on Forensic Custody Evaluations, 2021).
Forensic custody evaluations need to be entirely eliminated from the family courts (NY Blue-Ribbon Commission on Forensic Custody Evaluations, 2021) and clinical diagnostic assessments of the child and family pathology need to be routinely conducted to the appropriate differential diagnoses for each parent.
Craig Childress, Psy.D.
Clinical Psychologist
WA 61538481 – CA 18857
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