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We’re entering a new phase. I think of it as the fog of war phase. The pathogen doesn’t know what’s coming, and I suspect it’s going to be surprised by quite a few things over the next few months.

I’m completely okay with the pathogen not knowing what’s coming; the fog of war. And, I must admit, I sometimes enjoy taunting it. It’s here you know, monitoring what I say. It’s looking for a vulnerability, something I say, that it can use to attack and destroy me. See it there, in the shadows? The pathogen hides in shadows, ignorance, and darkness.

Things are changing, the pathogen cannot allow that to happen. My goodness, that should be an interesting situation. So many interesting situations are emerging, have you noticed? I wonder why.

I think it was 2013 when I first met Dorcy, about five years ago. In all that time, she and I have never actively collaborated. People may find that hard to believe, but it’s true. We worked on completely separate tracks on completely different solution approaches.

Dorcy Pruter: High Road, Higher Purpose Parenting, Custody Resolution Method, Coaching Support Network.

Dr. Childress: Foundations; Diagnosis, ABAB Single Case Design Assessment & Remedy, Treatment Focused Assessment Protocol, Contingent Visitation Schedule, Petition to the APA.

These are two entirely different tracks, each toward its own solution.

In five years of working together toward the same goal, each appreciative of the other’s work, Dorcy and I have never actively collaborated.

That’s changed, and I gotta tell you… personally, I’m impressed with the synergy of powerful solutions emerging from a Dorcy Pruter – Dr. Childress active collaboration.

I have so much to tell…, but not yet. Not til it’s achieved.

Dorcy and I haven’t collaborated before because this is all within the hands of the universe, and it wasn’t time yet. It’s time. Insider trading tip… look what Dr. Childress just did. He put all his chips in on Dorcy. Does he know something you don’t? Yes, I do.

And it’s something the pathogen doesn’t know… yet. That’s called the fog of war. So is finding out, that’s called the fog of war too. It’s going to be an interesting time for the pathogen and its allies.

Nothing surprising is going to happen right away, some stuff may start to… trickle out… into some circles of the pathogen over the next month, and then things will… well… we’ll see how it goes. As things emerge we’ll have information for everyone. But for right now, I think I’ll let the fog of war gather around the pathogen.

Something’s coming – something from a collaboration of Dr. Childress and Dorcy Pruter – and Dr. Childress is sooooo excited. It may not solve things right away, although it could, but it will definitely change the landscape. And it will surprise the dickens out of the pathogen’s allies. Yep, I don’t think they’ll see this one coming. Anvils just dropping out of the sky.

Dorcy and I are laying in some foundational work to our collaboration, that’ll take us about three months I’d estimate, so around April-ish things should become… interesting. By summer 2020… oh my god… but we’ve got to get there first. One thing at a time.

I’m at peace. Completely at peace. I want this solved today, so I’m never actually at peace… but I know what’s coming. Can’t rush it for several reasons, and I’m excited as all dickens, solutions are exploding from the collaboration. Really good solutions. Comprehensive solutions. Real solutions.

Dorcy Pruter is seriously brilliant. Every single time I was on my way to solving something, she’d pop in with the solution already in hand. Well, okay. I guess that’s taken care of. Next. This last one, CRM… I’m roll over play dead surrender, all my chips in on Dorcy.

Thanos. So last time I said we were at the scene where the spaceship was in space, arriving at Earth. Well now we’re at the scene where the spaceship appears above the city and everyone starts looking up going “What? Huh?” kinda wondering. That’s where we are right now, a Dr. C and Dorcy collaboration, what? huh?

You know the next scene don’t you? That’s when the buildings suddenly start exploding and cars start flying through the air, and everyone starts screaming and running around going “Ahhhhh, ahhhhh!” That scene. I’d estimate we’ll be there around April-ish is my guess… maybe June.

Change can be disorienting, and even though it’s a good thing change can be kind of scary at the same time… because it’s different. That’s just the way change is, and there is no getting around it. It’ll be a bit of a wild ride for a bit, at least it might seem so at the time. Actually, the universe has this well in hand. Each of us has our role.

When fear and anxiety rise, people can get chippy and return to patterns of fear. That’s okay. No worries. I’m solid as a rock. Dorcy’s solid as a rock. All the pieces of solution are ready and available, and Dr. Childress and Dorcy Pruter have just joined in active collaboration.

Things are moving forward. The first step is to get families out of the family court system and back into clinical psychology – and we want written treatment plans from clinical psychology.

We’re going to make that happen, and much more.

Craig Childress, Psy.D.

Clinical Psychologist, PSY 18857

Dorcy and I will be hiring a team of psychologists to provide independent professional consultation for the Custody Resolution Method data profiles.

My role as the Director of Psychological Services for the Conscious Co-Parenting Institute; CRM is to serve as the professional psychology interface between this team of psychologists and the client, Dorcy Pruter and the Custody Resolution Method.

These psychologist consultants have two inter-changeable roles, either to psychology-tag compiled data profiles for categories of possible concern evidenced in the data, or to write concise and focused trauma-informed reports regarding the data profile.

When I was a practicum student at Pacific Clinics, we did this all the time for Child Behavior Checklists, we’d be given the CBCLs and we would write up brief reports describing the data profile of the CBCL. Same thing, only at a more advanced level of analysis. Back then I was a doctoral student, we’re hiring licensed psychologists.

Dorcy Pruter and I will train on the CRM profiles, the psychology coding data categories, and the structured treatment-focused reports generated from the data profiles. I will provide additional advanced professional training seminars in attachment pathology, family systems therapy, and complex trauma. Our goal is to achieve the highest caliber of professional consultation possible for the client, Dorcy Pruter and CRM, relying on the standard and established domains of professional psychology.

As the Director of Psychological Services for CCPI; Custody Resolution Method, I will co-sign all consultant reports and will assume professional responsibility for the report. If testimony is required surrounding the professional consultation reports for the Custody Resolution Method, I will be available to provide this testimony support.

If the report-writing psychologist wishes to gain professional development experience in providing court testimony, then they can select to testify in support of the report and I will provide whatever mentorship support they request.

I have supervised interns and post-doctoral fellows at an APA accredited internship through Children’s Hospital, and I supervised licensed staff, post-docs, and interns as the Clinical Director for a three-university childhood assessment and treatment center. In my view as an old senior staff psychologist, this psychologist consultant position is an ideal position for an early career psychologist.

The psychology data tagging is all computer based. When Dorcy has a CRM data profile ready for psychological analysis, she will provide the computer profile to me. We will select a psychologist for psychology-tagging the data regarding issues of concern evidenced in the data profile. Tagging categories and criteria are operationally defined, and training is provided for reliability and validity of tagging.

Once this first psychologist has tagged the data at a professional level, using structured and defined criteria, then this tagged profile is sent to a second psychologist who produces the report based on the tagged profile created by the first psychologist. This report writing psychologist has access to the raw data if needed.

Since all of this is computer-mediated, both the psychologist who tags the data for psychology issues of concern and the psychologist consultant who writes the report can work from home, profile by profile as fits their schedule.

As the Director of Psychological Services for CRM, I need a psychology degree (not necessarily licensed) for the psychology tagging of profiles. This is a good position for a post-doc. For the report writing, I need licensed psychologists. We will co-sign; joint responsibility for content. This is a good position for an early career psychologist.

As the Director of Psychological Services, I will be aware of all profiles being processed and I will be available for support as sought. In addition, once this team is formed, then the psychologists who are part of this CRM psychology team can provide inter-psychologist consultation within the team.

Except for the psychology reports signed solely by Dr. Childress, for which I take personal responsibility, all CRM reports will be signed by at least two psychologists. All CRM reports will rely solely on the established knowledge of professional psychology; attachment, family systems therapy, personality disorder pathology, complex trauma, domestic violence, and child abuse.

Will train. This is a good position for an early career psychologist. Work from home at your schedule. Training seminars with Dr. Chilldress in attachment, complex trauma, personality pathology, and family systems therapy. Gain experience in analyzing data profiles using attachment constructs, constructs from trauma and complex trauma, family systems therapy (both Structural and Strategic), and personality pathology constructs and principles.

Work collaboratively with Dr. Childress and Dorcy Pruter for a year and a half; two years (longer if you’d like). You’ll be one of the top trauma-informed psychologists for court-involved family conflict. The courts are going to need psychologists who can conduct a trauma-informed clinical psychology assessment of attachment-related pathology. You can do that. You’ve been trained specifically for just that thing, you’ve analyzed family symptom data across many situations, doing an assessment is simply collecting the data yourself, through clinical interviews.

And things are emerging. I anticipate that there will emerge an increasing desire for AB-PA pilot programs for the family courts. Psychologists will be needed to staff these pilot programs, and psychologists will be needed to lead these programs. I’m just one psychologist. I’ve offered myself to direct one location if it emerges within the next few years. So that’s one. What about the rest that will emerge? I’m an old guy headed for retirement. Who will provide clinical leadership for these pilot programs for the family courts?

And hey, Dorcy’s a lot of fun. She’s serious no-nonsense, and she laughs a lot. That’s always a good thing. There’s worse things in life than working for Dorcy and Dr. C, especially if you’re just setting out on your career. We need top, we expect top, we’ll also train, so what we need most is the desire to be top.

This is important to understand if you choose to apply to the CRM psychology team of consultants, the CRM profiles and reports may become court evidence. This requires that all procedures and reports be at the highest professional caliber possible. If that works for you, then apply.

The Conscious Co-Parenting Institute and Custody Resolution Method expects the highest standards of professional knowledge and professional standards of practice from its consultant team. Will train.

Applications will be through the Conscious Co-Parenting Institute. We’ll be looking for between four to eight consulting psychologists. Dorcy’s setting up her application process now and it should be available shortly.

In the meantime, if you’re an interested early career psychologist who wants to apply to join Dr. Childress and Dorcy Pruter as a Custody Resolution Method consultant, send me your vitae and I’ll pass it along to Dorcy. She’ll have her own set of questions. I’ll participate in the hiring process. It’s her call, it’s her team of consultants. Good luck, it is a great opportunity.

If you’re a psychologist and have the chance to work with Dorcy Pruter… well, look at my decision. She is a top caliber professional across the board, and it is my pleasure and honor to work with her. Love to have you join us. You have to desire excellence.

Craig Childress, Psy.D.

Clinical Psychologist, PSY 18857

Director of Psychological Services,

Conscious Co-Parenting Institute, CRM