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Craig Childress PsyD , Professionals

Oh my goodness, if you’re a mental health professional working in the family courts, I should NOT have to explain the pathology to you in order to have a professional-level discussion with you about your patient-client.

You should already know.

Do you know what that’s called? Competence. Basic competence.

If I have to educate you before I can discuss the pathology with you, you’re not even competent yet. Go learn about the pathology first before – before – before – you start to work with it.

Before.

Don’t be here working with pathology if you don’t even know what the pathology is. Nope, don’t do it. If you don’t know what you’re doing, do you know what that’s called?

Incompetent.

You’re not allowed to be incompetent. That hurts people a lot when you don’t know what you’re doing. There are even ethical Standards that say “don’t be incompetent” – they are the Boundaries of Competence Standards in every ethics code.

Don’t do it. Don’t be an unethical, ignorant, incompetent mental health person. It’s just going to get you into trouble. Learn what the pathology is – first – learn how to fix it – first – then come work with the pathology in the family courts.

If you’re a mental health professional and I have to educate you about the pathology in order to have a professional-level discussion with you about your patient – that’s just wrong, wrong, wrong. You should already know.

I’m not an expert, I’m just a clinical psychologist who is competent in the pathology I work with. I was trained at Children’s Hospital. Do you know what the standard for competence is there, the standard I was trained to?

Competence – basic competence – is to know everything there is to know about the pathology, and then read journals to remain current.

Everything. Not most things. Everything about the pathology.

Is that too much? Then go away, because that’s the standard. I’m not the ceiling, I’m the floor. If you don’t know as much as Dr. Childress about this pathology, why not?

Are you just lazy? Must be. I’m not lazy. This is child abuse pathology. Know where you are. Don’t be lazy or don’t be here. Because if you’re here, you need to know what you’re doing.

You need to know what the pathology is, and you need to know how to fix it.

The Age of Ignorance is over.

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

Judges, Councilors DO NOT put your child first

Judges and counsellors do not have the power to turn a narcissistic parental alienator into a decent human being who agrees it’s in the child’s best interests to have both loving parents in their life. Court orders cannot make an immature, vengeful, alienating parent put their child’s needs first, encouraging and supporting a relationship with their other parent (and all their family). This is presuming the courts and counsellors even manage to detect the alienating behaviours and act upon them to safeguard the child from further deterioration in their relationship with the loving, caring available but maligned ‘target’ parent. Often they don’t do this and stick with the status quo because of the ‘voice of the child’ (indoctrinated/alienated). Admittedly, they’ve got to work with a lot of conflicting, incomplete information, manipulation and false allegations. But they must know that narcissistic, alienating parents – the ones who have their child entirely on their side, aligned and turned against the other parent – are unlikely to co-parent, collaborate or follow court orders. Court orders rely on a parent who is capable of emotionally and psychologically abusing their child with coercive control, lies, and alienating behaviours, to suddenly do what’s right for their child, and somehow, miraculously, correct their disordered pathology and pattern of behaviours. These court orders are hopeless if they’re not legally enforced as well, and at no extra time and expense. There has to be a change in custody, a fine, or some consequence to prevent the alienating parent from wasting any more of anyone’s precious time and money, and more importantly, from prolonging, exacerbating – even condoning and sanctioning – the alienation from the ‘target’ parent.

#charliemccready #9StepProgram #parentalalienation #parentalalienationawareness #narcissisticchildabuse #childabuse #coparentingwithanarcissist #coparenting #narcissisticabuseawareness #narcissisticabuserecovery #narcissism #narcissist #highconflictdivorce #highconflictcoparenting #divorce

APA , Childress agree, not such thing as parental alienation , it’s Child Psychological Abuse, continuation of Malignant , intimate partner violence

I have tried to change my site to CPA , and will need help doing so.

I’m self taught , with some help from friends on all things computer

Am I clear? I want to be entirely clear. I agree with the American Psychiatric Association.

I’m an old-school conservative clinical psychologist. I apply knowledge, I don’t create it.

The Gardnerian PAS “experts” are a rag-tag group of misfit toys. Am I being vague? I don’t want to be vague, I want to be clear.

They reject the diagnostic guidance of the American Psychiatric Association – they think the APA is wrong and that they know more about diagnosis than the APA – and they reject the ethical guidance of the American Psychological Association – they think ethical standards don’t apply to them.

They’re wrong, they do. Ethical Standards of practice are mandatory. Ethical practice is not optional, it is required.

In 2013 the American Psychiatric Association made its determination on the diagnostic construct of “parental alienation” with the publication of the DSM-5. They said no – the APA said there is no such thing as “parental alienation”. For all professionals, that’s the end of it. That’s the end of the discussion. The APA said no, it does not exist as a diagnostic entity.

I agree 100% with the American Psychiatric Association. The construct of “parental alienation” is the worst diagnostic model for a pathology ever constructed since the beginning of time. It is awful, absolutely awful in so many ways.

The American Psychiatric Association is right. I agree with the American Psychiatric Association, there is no such thing as “parental alienation” – Childress, year 1.

The Gardnerian PAS “experts” assert that the APA is wrong. They assert that they know more about diagnosis and pathology than the American Psychiatric Association does, and they CONTINUE to use a diagnostic construct that does NOT exist in professional psychology.

In continuing to use the construct of “parental alienation” in a professional capacity, the Gardnerian PAS “experts” substantially degrade the quality of mental health services in the family courts.

The Gardnerian PAS “experts” are a fringe group of professionals who reject the diagnostic guidance of the American Psychiatric Association and the ethical guidance of the American Psychological Association.

Meanwhile, the forensic custody evaluators in the family courts are ignorant, incompetent, and unethical – and no one cares. They are simply financially exploiting the parent while solving nothing.

We need a pilot program for the family courts with university involvement for evaluation research to develop standardized high-quality diagnostic assessment and treatment protocols.

Amicus Letter for CA SB-331
https://drcachildress-consulting.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/SB-331-Childress-amicus-letter-4-17-23.pdf

Risk Assessment Handout
https://drcachildress-consulting.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/1-Handout-Risk-Assessment-3-22.pdf

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

Reinforcing the status quo instead of liberation

I personally found this so

My last Psychiatric Dr h did not stop my liberation . She told me I should become a Dr

I asked her if I needed therapy ?

Not without your children 🧒

Blessings & Peace ☮️

Dona Luna🐸

www.madinamerica.com/2022/10/without-liberation-psychology-therapy-risks-reinforcing-status-quo/

APA Convention 2019 – American Psychological Association

I would love to attend , given that the 2019 Convention

discussed real progress in Family Counseling, Parental Alienation

Domestic/ChildAbuse …A whole body of informed affected parents

and children included

Join the American Psychological Association at the APA 2019 Convention, August 8-11 in Chicago!
— Read on convention.apa.org/

Child custody assessments under review after complaints about former psychologist’s methods | CBC News

A former Vancouver psychologist who’s served as an expert witness in hundreds of court cases has agreed to review his assessments in a series of child custody cases in response to complaints about his methods.
— Read on www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/child-custody-assessments-review-complaints-former-psychologist-1.4971969