Stagnation in Diagnosis of Child Physiological Abuse – Craig Childress PsyD

Stahl & Simon 2013 – Simon & Stahl 2020 – “far from mature”

In 2013, Stahl & Simon wrote the first edition of their book on conducting forensic custody evaluations. In 2020, Simon & Stahl wrote their second edition of their book.

Their 2020 book says the same thing as their 2013 book. As a sub-specialty field of psychology, Simon and Stahl indicate that forensic psychology has made no progress in the past decade.

Simon & Stahl acknowledge the lack of progress since 2013, and that the field’s development is immature and remains in its adolescence.

In 2013, Stahl & Simon said that forensic psychology was just entering its adolescence and was far from mature.

In 2020, Simon and Stahl said exactly the same thing regarding the current status of forensic psychology.

Stahl & Simon (in 2013): “As a formal and organized field, forensic psychology has entered its adolescence, but it is far from mature.” (p. 17)

Simon & Stahl (in 2020): “As a formal and organized field, forensic psychology has entered it’s adolescence, but it is far from mature.” (p. 17)

How long will forensic psychology remain an immature field?

Clinical psychology is a fully mature field embedded in the foundational principles of the healthcare system – the diagnosis and treatment of pathology.

Forensic psychology in the family courts developed 40 years ago as a new sub-specialty field created for a single population. No other pathology has their own “special” psychologists, just parents and children in the family courts.

Forensic psychology has had 40 years of developmental time from the 1980s to 2020s. Yet by their own admission they are still in their “adolescence” and are “far from mature.”

They are not even CLOSE to being a mature field of professional psychology – by their own admission they are FAR from mature – and they have made NO progress toward becoming more mature in the past decade.

They are stagnant in their development.

Forensic psychology in the family courts is a failed model of service delivery to a vulnerable population. Clinical psychology needs to return to court-involved child custody conflict.

From Simon & Stahl (2020): “This illustrates the reality that as an organized field and as an organized, systematic approach to behavioral science, forensic psychology remains in its formative years… forensic psychology is truly a new field…” (p. 17)

According to Simon & Stahl, “forensic psychology is truly a new field” in 2020.

In 2013, Stahl & Simon provided the following description of forensic psychology in the family courts:

Stahl & Simon (2013): “These facts serve to illustrate the reality that as an organized field, and as an organized systematic approach to behavioral science, forensic psychology remains in its formative years…. forensic psychology is truly a new field…” (p. 17-18)

According to Simon & Stahl, forensic psychology has made no progress in the past decade and continues to remain in a FORMATIVE phase of development… after 40 years and countless thousands of destroyed families – they are still a “new” field.

They are experimenting on you.

Forensic psychology in the family courts is a failed experiment in service delivery to a vulnerable population. Clinical psychology is a fully established and grounded professional field. Clinical psychology needs to return to court-involved child custody conflict.

In all cases of child attachment pathology surrounding court-involved child custody conflict, a proper risk assessment for possible child abuse need to be conducted to the appropriate differential diagnosis for each parent.

Either the targeted parent is abusing the child, thereby creating the child’s attachment pathology toward that parent,

Or the allied parent is psychologically abusing the child by creating a shared persecutory delusion and false (factitious) attachment pathology in the child for the secondary gain of manipulating the court’s decisions regarding child custody, and to meet the parent’s own emotional and psychological needs.

I sure wish we had a shorter label for the pathology of the allied parent so I wouldn’t have to write it all out each time. But until the paradigm shifts and knowledge returns to professional practice, I will write out the pathology in detail each time.

Clinical psychology is a fully mature field that is entirely grounded in the principles of the healthcare system – the diagnosis and treatment of pathology.

Diagnosis means exactly the same thing as the word identify.

Pathology means exactly same thing as the word problem.

Treatment means exactly the same thing as fix it.

Clinical psychologists are doctors in the healthcare system. We identify what the problem is and we fix it. We diagnose what the pathology is and we treat it. In all of healthcare, diagnosis guides treatment, the treatment for cancer is different than the treatment for diabetes.

Is it cancer or diabetes? We need a clinical diagnostic risk assessment for possible child abuse to the appropriate differential diagnosis for each parent.

Clinical psychology needs to return to court-involved child custody conflict. We need to accurately identify what the problem is and we need to fix it.

From Simon & Stahl (2020): “Professionals whose formal training emphasizes their helping role and whose motivation for becoming a mental health professional in the first place often revolves around a desire to help those in distress must reorient themselves to a new reality. FMHPs [forensic mental health professionals] are not there to help those they evaluate.” (p. 19)

From Simon & Stahl (2020): “The evaluator is, in reality, an agent of the state.” (p. 18).

From Simon & Stahl (2020): “The forensic role is a non-helper role. The evaluating FMHP [forensic mental health professional] is not involved in services that have as a goal the alleviation of suffering or discomfort.” (p. 26)

Forensic psychologists are not there to help the child or the parent. That is not their goal. Nor is their goal to alleviate the suffering of the child or parent. They openly state that.

They do something different. After 40 years of not helping parents and children from their non-helper roles as agents of the state, their approach to doing something different remains “far from mature.”

Forensic psychology is a failed experiment in service delivery to a vulnerable population. Clinical psychology needs to return to court-involved child custody conflict.

Craig Childress, Psy.D.
Clinical Psychologist, CA PSY 18857

44 Million @ Risk of Eviction Under Present Laws

This report is pretty through and points out the facts and adversity of landlord retaliation and abuse as rent cost rise and wages stay low . It’s not a legacy I wanted for myself or want for anyone .

Change must come soon .

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A too typical experience in Family Court

After 4 years, 5 attorneys and $150k in attorney fees, and never seeing a courtroom, I have decided to be my own advocate.

Yesterday I filed my first motion as an “attorney”. #goingprose

My case is to the point of “timing out” per the rules of Supreme court. The last motion I received from my attorney was a proposal for me to sign a motion that restricted me from any contact with my kids per the recommendation of the GAL, David Mesaros. This is ridiculous. So I refused to sign and fired my attorney.

Now the magistrate, Barbara Reno, will need to answer to the #supremecourt on why she has to dismiss 9 motions that were never heard in court or agreed upon outside of court, why I didn’t sign the agreement and fired my attorney and now representing myself.

It has been proven that both parents needs to be involved in the children’s lives. To make it worse, the GAL did not follow the law of what is requested of him in his duties. #law

It’s hard to explain the psychological factors that affect the children to the point where they beg you to stop fighting for them.

So this time my mission is much larger and with the support and encouragement and advice from friends and professionals, I am making a stance in a larger way using my case as an example to show how corrupt the system is.

We all have an American right to file grevienaces and I plan on doing so.

endparentalalienation. #Fightingforfamilies

#prose

Low DoseMorphine & COPD

Sadly ,I watched Dad be morphined to death . He had COPD and he foamed from the mouth from this .

She filled a syringe,no needle quite frequently until he drew his last breath .

Angle / Nurse of Death was a temporary member of our family and Stockholmed Dad so much it was vulgar .

But she was an LPN and worked at a nursing home and could not wait to spend Dad’s money .

www.medpagetoday.com/pulmonology/smokingcopd/101866