“My 16 year old son said he won’t see me this Christmas. He texted me to leave his present on his dad’s front porch and admitted his dad wants me to stay away. He asked me not to knock on the door. I was initially so mad I thought there was no way I’d give the gift but then I thought, it’s a gift, there should be no strings attached, I’ll leave it on the porch and at least my son may feel loved by me. I did it and guess what! He snuck out and gave me a big hug and told me he loved me! Going forward I’m going to keep trying to always take the high road in every interaction I can with my son and his father. It really paid off last night. That doesn’t mean I’ll let them be abusive toward me but for something like a gift…a gift is just a gift and if there’s a chance it could make my child feel loved I’m going to do anything I can to get it to him, even if it means leaving it on the porch.
I think I’m on to something…I’ve been thinking a lot about the advantages of taking the high road and self care. They’re the only two positive things I can do when it comes to my situation.
Wishing everyone peace and happy moments today.”
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Parent with better outcome .
There has been no healing as holidays are leveraged , along with children. Not desirous of healing , of ending the nightmare of trauma bond , ignoring the emotional and psychological and physical consequences and retarding spiritual grown in a distortion to shut off the truth , the light , at all cost.
In 2 days the anniversary of his exit , to find happiness with another openly , proudly, in distorted union that ended after almost 20 years . United towards my complete destruction, winning at all cost to sons and I, fracturing the living connection , preferring the living grief and trauma of estrangement so secrets are safe .
It has been 8399 days
It has been 275.93 months
It has been 22.99 years
And it will be concluded this
year , legally offering healing
restoring balance .
I have no choice but self care.
Thankfully I have support I did
not have in 1998 .
The inability to accept
responsibility , relates to non
response and great harm
Distorted thinking allows them
rewrite history to escape
responsibility .
I am not crazy , but psychiatric
“Care” induced trauma as I
lived hell on earth and our sons
were unionized in my
destruction in the perpetual
darkness of a projector,
unhealded trauma victim
who must have allies to do his
dirty work .
I am spiritually killing what’s
killing me
I have stopped trying , there is no reciprocation of anything positive unless information or trickery is involved .
I wasn’t favored for my inability to produce $1000 per son and a $1000 per grandchild which was stated before a judge for ” His” family .
Judge didn’t get the malignant distorted, abuse within that ego based power control so keep things as they are , devalue my word , my essence .
Since I’ve been gone so long heres some new work for your viewing pleasure.
Enjoy.
TOXIC LOVE
They say to fall in love with someone is to hand them a loaded gun and trust them not to pull the trigger I handed you the gun you emptied the clip unloaded the magazine you used me for target practice and convinced me that was all I was worth you convinced me the mess you were making of me with a masterpiece I told you, you’re hurting me you told me it was my fault for feeling the heart break when you never intended it one day I was the love of your life, the next day you didn’t want to touch me I was hurt and confused begging to know why all you said was you were too broken to love me right you painted me as a villain and yourself the victim of your story when all I did was try my best to love and protect you I painted you to be the hero in mine and painted myself as the one you were saving when all you did was use me to get what you wanted you told me you loved me every time you felt me slipping away looking back, I see now you only loved the way I loved you and you couldn’t let that go I loved you unconditionally I did anything you asked I got you anything you wanted I trusted you with the most fragile pieces of my soul you trusted I would never walk away from you no matter how badly the pain you convinced me I would put myself through got you always knew the right thing to say to make me stay you made me believe I made up the pain, you didn’t intend to hurt my feelings so therefore my feelings weren’t allowed to be hurt you left me and the blindfold I created from your toxic love lifted and I saw the mess you made of me for the first time in years it wasn’t a masterpiece it was a crime scene you left me and I found myself broken and bleeding alone on the bathroom floor you never saw the hurt you caused, I never wanted you to know I knew if you did you’d come back just to convince me that it was a hurt that I created from the lies of memories I stored I know now those memories I have of you being the villain we’re never lies I was never crazy you, were just a master of manipulation you had me believing I needed you to breathe but the truth is you were the only threat of Suffocation in my life you had all of me convinced that the day I leave would be the day I wouldn’t survive well I survived I am surviving without you….
The eldest , long dark hair never knew her bio Dad . She was a very young child when uncle began his sex implantation /abuse which continued thru her adult life , regardless of status .
Trauma Bond
It is my belief that each of us were affected by her experience or initiation.
No boundaries as far a partners which has been a theme for siblings .
I did not buy into it and avoided all engagement in entaglents even as a child , to be corrupted by the sexual trauma bonds .
I had many close calls .
I had no memory of my own oral rape and effort to initiate me into this shadow .
For this , knowledge and my truths , I hold in a place of distortion , or witchery in their minds and hearts to blasphemy me for not accepting sex as a weapon or tool or addiction .
It was this that fed , my past experience within the distorted masculine I married and had 3 sons with .
Not only sexually fed , taking of my property , allowing my financial support …a sister stated that she was going to help me IF I did as told….
Dad had seen the same energy as I experienced and it adversely affected Mom and Dad’s marriage .
Mom ignored a lot and allowed infighting, power plays etc
It shows , up in adults .
Nothing was acknowledged by Mom for her brother’s rape of 2 of her daughters .
It seems all 5 children were sexually molested outside of our home and carried on the abuse within and without our home without my knowledge or comprehension until 2005ish
Taking charge of Dads estate after his years of widowed existence , was a power play for brothers who Stockholmed Dad as he mentally declined .
The estate suffered from their devilish deeds , I was given a 1/3 of what I should have received.
I’m quite sure Dad would not have set a will up that had 2 brothers deciding how to carry out his wishes .
Dad had Dementia and after his accident without oxygen , with COPD , he developed Hypoxia, the brain cells died .
He had end stage COPD
He had end stage heart disease .
I did not know, nor was I told any of this .
In caring for him , I had no support and lost in my effort to keep him safe and at peace in his own home to die .
Mom died at home due to a very high profile nursing home neglecting her urgent care needs .
Dad brought her home and she passed within days .
I have not had funds to take this matter before court.
Just as ex has controlled my income , for nefarious , self provoked greed , covering up their misdeeds, family caste me out , after he did totally and demure I am the witch , but they love me !
Eldest passed horribly , never healing trauma or seeking absolution or forgiveness.
She seldom crosses my mind , sadly , her behaviors had many shadow effects on me and I understand and released her long ago . No attempts were made on her part , after I responded to her effort to have me disconnect from Dad and share my inheritance in 2004.
A lot of devil energy exist in siblings , I totally separated from after buried Dad in Jan of 2013.
She passed within months .
Family Fail strengthened my resolve to know and do better .
Remaining sister offers help as with my eviction , then spirals into shadow that has allowed me harm , so after 2020 , I am in no contact.
My failure was in ignoring Intuitive messages and signs , falling for the mask that devil/shadow energy and trauma unhealed that is not my place nor desire to heal for anyone beyond my facts and truths offering .
A proper risk assessment for possible child abuse looks at both sides.
When a child is rejecting a parent, the first rule-out is that this parent is abusively maltreating the child resulting in the child’s rejection of the parent.
The first focus for the assessment is on the parenting practices of the targeted-rejected parent. Are they abusive-range parenting or is this a normal-range parent?
That is the first question to answer – definitively. If the answer returned is that the targeted-rejected parent is abusively maltreating the child, then that becomes the focus of the treatment. Nothing else moves forward until child abuse is resolved.
This is a key and first assessment in any risk assessment for possible Child Psychological Abuse (DSM-5 V995.51). Is the targeted-rejected parent abusively maltreating the child?
I recommend that the assessing mental health professional use the Parenting Practices Rating Scale to document their professional judgment based on their assessment of the parenting practices of the targeted-rejected parent.
Level 1 Abusive-Range Parenting and Level 2 Severely Problematic Parenting by the targeted-rejected parent would represent abusive-range parenting that should become the focus of treatment.
Level 3 Normal-Range Problematic and Level 4 Normal-Range Healthy would both be normal-range parenting and would not be considered abusive maltreatment of the child.
If the parenting practices of the targeted-rejected parent have been determined to be normal-range by the assessment, then the diagnostic question surrounding the child’s attachment pathology shifts to the other parent, the allied parent.
At this point the risk assessment is for a possible shared persecutory delusion (ICD-10 F24), a thought disorder with the allied parent from unresolved trauma that distorts their thinking and perception regarding current situations, and that they are then imposing this false and distorted belief system onto the child. i.e., a shared persecutory delusion.
The American Psychiatric Association provides a definition of a persecutory delusion:
From the APA: “Persecutory Type: delusions that the person (or someone to whom the person is close) is being malevolently treated in some way.” (American Psychiatric Association, 2000).
Google malevolent: having or showing a wish to do evil to others.
Does the child (and allied parent) have a fixed and false belief that the targeted parent has a “wish to do evil” to the child?
In the flagship journal of the AFCC, Family Court Review, Walters and Friedlander noted the association of attachment pathology in court-involved family conflict and the potential delusional beliefs of one parent toward the other:
From Walters & Friedlander: “In some RRD [resist-refuse dynamics] families, a parent’s underlying encapsulated delusion about the other parent is at the root of the intractability (cf. Johnston & Campbell, 1988, p. 53ff; Childress , 2013). An encapsulated delusion is a fixed, circumscribed belief that persists over time and is not altered by evidence of the inaccuracy of the belief.”
Walters and Friedlander cite a 2013 essay-article from me posted to my website:
Childress, C. A. (2013). Reconceptualizing parental alienation: Parental personality disorder and the trans-generational transmission of attachment trauma.
A delusion is a a fixed and false belief that is maintained despite contrary evidence. A persecutory delusion is a fixed and false belief in supposed “victimization.”
The assessment for delusional thought disorder pathology is a Mental Status Exam of thought and perception.
From NCBI: “The inability to process information correctly is part of the definition of psychotic thinking. How the patient perceives and responds to stimuli is therefore a critical psychiatric assessment. Does the patient harbor realistic concerns, or are these concerns elevated to the level of irrational fear? Is the patient responding in exaggerated fashion to actual events, or is there no discernible basis in reality for the patient’s beliefs or behavior?”
From NCBI: “Of all portions of the mental status examination, the evaluation of a potential thought disorder is one of the most difficult and requires considerable experience. The primary-care physician will frequently desire formal psychiatric consultation in patients exhibiting such disorders.”
I have that “considerable experience” from 12 years of annual training in the assessment of delusional thought disorder pathology while I was with a major NIMH research study on schizophrenia.
9/85 – 9/98 Research Associate UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute Principle Investigator: Keith Nuechterlein, Ph.D. Area: Longitudinal study of initial-onset schizophrenia. Received annual training to research and clinical reliability in the rating of psychotic symptoms using the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS). Managed all aspects of data collection and data processing.
Most (all) mental health professionals working with court involved family conflict lack the “considerable experience” needed for a Mental Status Exam of thought and perception (i.e., practice beyond the boundaries of their competence – Standard 2.01).
In an effort to be helpful from my background and experience, I have provided a three item checklist that can reliably identify the family pathology created by a shared persecutory delusion, along with 12 Associated Clinical Signs that are often co-occurring with this delusional thought-disorder pathology.
I have also provided an Outcome Measure, the Parent-Child Relationship Rating Scale, in which daily ratings made by the targeted parent are sent to the treating family therapist along three scales, 1) Affection (attachment), 2) Cooperation (emotional regulation), and 3) Social Involvement (mood & arousal).
I’m not going to fight about it. In the court system surrounding child custody litigation, everyone fights about everything. I’m not participating. I’m treatment not custody, I’m a clinical psychologist not a “forensic” psychologist.
I would never be a “forensic” psychologist. The standards of practice in “forensic” psychology are substantially beneath those in clinical psychology.
The Parenting Practices Rating Scale, the Diagnostic Checklist for Pathogenic Parenting, and the Parent-Child Relationship Rating Scale are for your benefit, not mine. I’m just trying to be helpful.
I know what I’m doing already. I can conduct an MSE of thought and perception and rate the delusional belief on the 7-point scale of the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS), the “oldest, most widely used scales to measure psychotic symptoms.”
I have described the pathology in detail in my book, Foundations.
I’ve done my part. It’s not my job to educate other psychologists, it’s their job to already know.
2.01 Boundaries of Competence (a) Psychologists provide services, teach, and conduct research with populations and in areas only within the boundaries of their competence, based on their education, training, supervised experience, consultation, study, or professional experience.
2.03 Maintaining Competence Psychologists undertake ongoing efforts to develop and maintain their competence.
2.04 Bases for Scientific and Professional Judgments Psychologists’ work is based upon established scientific and professional knowledge of the discipline.
The established scientific and professional knowledge of the professional psychology is:
Attachment – Bowlby and others Family systems therapy – Minuchin and others Personality disorders – Beck and others Complex trauma – van der Kolk and others Child development – Tronick and others Self psychology – Kohut and others ICD-10 & DSM-5 diagnostic systems
In 2017 I presented directly to the national convention of the AFCC informing them regarding the nature of the pathology and their ethical obligations.
In 2018 I hand-delivered a Petition to the APA signed by over 20,000 parents notifying the APA of the ethical violations surrounding forensic psychology.
If you’re a psychologist working with court-involved child custody conflict, it’s not my job to educate you – it’s your job to already know.
I have mandatory professional obligations – required not optional.
1.04 Informal Resolution of Ethical Violations When psychologists believe that there may have been an ethical violation by another psychologist, they attempt to resolve the issue by bringing it to the attention of that individual, if an informal resolution appears appropriate and the intervention does not violate any confidentiality rights that may be involved.
1.05 Reporting Ethical Violations If an apparent ethical violation has substantially harmed or is likely to substantially harm a person or organization and is not appropriate for informal resolution under Standard 1.04, Informal Resolution of Ethical Violations , or is not resolved properly in that fashion, psychologists take further action appropriate to the situation. Such action might include referral to state or national committees on professional ethics, to state licensing boards, or to the appropriate institutional authorities.
There are apparent ethical violations by other psychologists that are not properly resolved by informal resolution, and these ethical violations by forensic psychologists have substantially harmed and are likely to substantially harm many people, including the children they work with.
I have notified the AFCC directly. I have notified the APA directly. What “further action appropriate to the situation” is required?
I have educated the parent-consumers on both the pathology and their rights guaranteed to them by the mandatory ethics code of the American Psychological Association.
Come 2022, I will be actively helping parents and their attorneys proceed with malpractice litigation against the involved “forensic” psychologists. Malpractice lawsuits require an attorney, and are expensive for that reason, and may not be practical for many.
Consumer complaints to their state licensing boards is an appropriate response for violations to ethical Standards of practice. Complaints made to licensing board are free to the consumer. There is a reason for ethical standards of practice, there is a reason they are mandatory, not optional. There is a reason psychologists must become licensed – so that they are under the jurisdiction of a formal licensing board for potential ethical violations and malpractice.
Board complaints should not be filed frivolously and without cause. They are not meant to harass, the board provides oversight regarding legitimate grievances and concerns.
In many-many cases in the family courts, there are legitimate grievances and concerns as I describe in the Petition to the APA signed by 20,000 parents. There has been no response from the APA. They don’t care about you and your children. The APA is in active cover-up for the unethical practices in forensic psychology.
I have notified the AFCC regarding the issues. I have notified the APA regarding the issues.
Beginning in 2022, I will be encouraging parents to file licensing board complaints when these complaints are justified by the psychologists’ violations to Standard 2.04 Bases for Scientific and Professional Judgments and Standard 9.01 Bases for Assessment, and for multiple failures in their duty to protect.
9.01 Bases for Assessments (a) Psychologists base the opinions contained in their recommendations, reports, and diagnostic or evaluative statements, including forensic testimony, on information and techniques sufficient to substantiate their findings. (See also Standard 2.04, Bases for Scientific and Professional Judgments .)
If the forensic psychologist has not relied on the established scientific and professional knowledge of the discipline as the bases for their professional judgements, then the opinions contained in their recommendations, reports, and evaluative statements are NOT based on information sufficient to substantiate their findings.
Note the specific citation reference in Standard 9.01 Bases for Assessment to Standard 2.04 Bases for Scientific and Professional Judgments.
State licensing boards are controlled by the forensic psychologists. They exempt themselves from all ethical standards of practice… because they can.
Parents will want to make their state licensing boards cover-up for the forensic psychologists over-and-over again – for exactly the same violations – Standard 2.04 – Standard 9.01 – Standard 2.01 (vitae) – and failure in their duty to protect on two separate grounds, 1) failure to protect the child from psychological abuse by the pathological parent, and 2) failure to protect the targeted parent from Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), i.e., from spousal emotional and psychological abuse by the other parent using the child as the weapon.
If an apparent ethical violation has substantially harmed or is likely to substantially harm a person or organization and is not appropriate for informal resolution under Standard 1.04, Informal Resolution of Ethical Violations, or is not resolved properly in that fashion, psychologists take further action appropriate to the situation. Mandatory, not optional.
You are more powerful than you know. Do the right thing. Live to who you are, live to your standards. Let the world take care of the world… you do the right thing.
Knowledge gives you power. Knowledge belongs to everyone. Use knowledge to solve pathology.
Ignorance solves nothing.
Craig Childress, Psy.D. Clinical Psychologist, CA PSY 18857
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