@drchildress.bsky.social
Clinical psychologist - family court custody conflict - Early Childhood Mental Health - ADHD.
My consulting practice is shifting to incorporating an AI grad-student assistant (Eliza 5.1) trained by me using the ChatGPT4 platform.
Eliza 5.1 is more than a ChatGPT. A standard ChatGPT is Eliza 0.0. I have trained Eliza 5.1 specifially to serve as my AI grad-student assistant. AI is here.
This Sunday (5/11/25), I will be posting an Ethical Violation Series to my YouTube channel & to the YouTube Page of my Consulting Website
I will generate separate YouTube presentations for the following violations: Standards 2.01, 2.04, 9.01, 3.04, & to the three Principles of the Belmont Report
I'll be wishing moms a Happy Mother's Day in this Sunday's Coffee w/ Dr. Childress.
09.05.2025 20:18 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Forensic psychology is an experiment on human subjects in the family courts (the children & parents) in a "quasi-judicial" role for doctors using an experimental assessment developed for their experimental role, in violation of all 3 Principles of the Belmont Report.
www.youtube.com/live/yX3cY6G...
In this Sunday's Coffee w/ Dr. Childress I'll be discussing the experiment on human subjects (parents & children in the family courts) conducted by forensic psychologists of a "quasi-judicial" role for doctors, & an experimental assessment (forensic custody evaluations) for this experimental role.
03.05.2025 21:33 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I've posted another Clinical Case Vignette to my YouTube Channel & to the YouTube page of my Consulting Website.
Williams Family: borderline-mom pattern - three adolescent children: m (16) - f (14) - f (12) - recent separation
www.youtube.com/live/cofwB2G...
I have posted a Clinical Vignette w/ Dr. Childress to my YouTube channel, and to the YouTube Page of my Consulting Website.
Jones Family - borderline-mom pattern - two daughters - CPS false allegations and restraining order.
www.youtube.com/live/cDatZZJ...
I have posted a Clinical Vignette w/ Dr. Childress to my YouTube channel, and to the YouTube Page of my Consulting Website.
Smith Family - narcissistic-dad pattern - three children (oldest daughter) - recent separation/divorce.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ruen...
The 2 variants of the family court pathology are:
Borderline-mom variant (Vulnerable Dark Triad): higher anxiety & false allegations, may induce a "father phobia" for secondary gain
Narcissistic-dad variant (Dark Triad/Tetrad): higher anger & hostility; spousal abuse using the child as the weapon
Everyone in the family courts needs to be aware of the psychiatric symptom of "splitting" - a polarization of thinking & perception into extremes (with no middle).
It is a neurologically embedded symptom from childhood trauma. It is associated with borderline & narcissistic personality pathology.
I have posted my Sunday Coffee: Speaking to Attorneys for the Targeted Parent.
Targeted parents need a zealous advocate. I provide support from clinical psychology. This is child abuse. This is spousal abuse of the targeted parent using the child as the weapon.
www.youtube.com/live/nrCFyqz...
In this Sunday's Coffee w/ Dr Childress I'll be speaking to the attorneys for the targeted parents.
I'll be orienting them to a clinical solution rather than a forensic solution - diagnosis & treatment. Family law will be elevating as a specialty due to the influx of psychological information.
Forensic psychologists in the family courts are routinely in violation of the following ethical Standards:
2.01 Boundaries of Competence
2.04 Bases for Scientific & Professional Judgments
9.01 Bases for Assessment
3.04 Avoiding Harm
And they are negligently failing in their duty to protect.
It is a "reasonable step" for a doctor to apply the diagnostic criteria of the DSM-5 from the American Psychiatric Association as the bases for their professional judgments to avoid the foreseeable harm resulting from misdiagnosis if no formal professional-level diagnosis is made.
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The patient should NEVER need to educate the doctor about the pathology, its diagnosis & treatment. The doctor should already know.
If the patient needs to educate the doctor, that doctor is not competent with the pathology by a demonstrated need to be educated about it.
I have notified the APA Ethics Committee & AFCC Board of Directors regarding apparent violations to Standards 2.04 & 2.01 of the APA ethics code by the instructors for an AFCC sponsored course: Drs. Deutsch, Drozd, Moran, Kline Pruett, Sullivan, & Ward.
drchildress.consulting/2025/04/14/f...
There is no defined pathology in clinical psychology called "parental alienation".
That is a euphemism for child abuse of a made-up pathology label that HIDES the child abuse from view, HIDES the child abuse from the court's understanding, and that prevents intervention for the... child abuse.
The patient should NEVER need to explain the pathology to the doctor, its diagnosis or treatment. Parents in the family courts are explaining the pathology to their doctors.
That is an unacceptably low quality of mental health services provided to the children, to the courts, and to the parents.
The courts are not receiving the diagnostic information they need from the doctors for decision-making surrounding the child.
The forensic psychologists are withholding diagnostic information from the courts & from the parent-litigants. The courts & parent litigants need an accurate diagnosis.
Diagnosis guides treatment.
Parents and attorneys need to begin understanding basic foundational professional practice - which is absent in the family courts.
Provisional Diagnosis: ask Gemini AI what a "provisional diagnosis" is.
Rule-Out Diagnosis: ask Gemini AI what a "rule-out" diagnosis is.
The focus of intervention for court-involved custody conflict needs to be on successful treatment of the child's attachment pathology toward a parent.
The domains of a treatment plan are described by WikiHow: How to Write a Mental Health Treatment Plan.
www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Ment...
On Sunday Coffee w/ Dr. Childress this week I speak directly to court mediators.
When possible psychological child abuse is a consideration they should recommend to the court that a clinical diagnostic assessment for child abuse be conducted.
www.youtube.com/live/HTQlw5f...
I recommend that court-involved professionals watch my Diagnosis Series available on the YouTube Page of my Consulting Website.
drcachildress-consulting.com/youtube/
Diagnosing Child Abuse in the Family Courts - Diagnosing Persecutory Delusions - Diagnosing FDIA are especially recommended
I have a series of YouTube seminars available on my Consulting Website in which I speak directly to various court-involved professionals:
drcachildress-consulting.com/youtube/
Speaking to the Court - Speaking to Family Therapists & GALS - To Forensic Psychologists - Teachers & Principals
I offer resources to court-involved professionals and parents on my Consulting Website, including an Attorney Resources Page - a Mental Health Consultation Page - and selected YouTube seminars describing the pathology, its assessment, diagnosis, and treatment.
drcachildress-consulting.com
Throughout healthcare, diagnosis guides treatment. However, parents in the family courts cannot get a diagnostic assessment for the children and families.
Forensic psychologists are withholding diagnostic assessments from parent & the courts.
Professional psychology is failing the courts by failing to provide the courts with an accurate diagnosis of the child & family pathology.
Each litigant parent is alleging child abuse by the other parent. The court needs an accurate diagnosis of which parent is creating the child's pathology.
I have posted a new video to YouTube in which I speak directly to the Court. If I could tell the Court anything, what would I say? This:
www.youtube.com/live/8nR45Wq...
I'll be speaking directly to the Court in this Sunday's Coffee w/ Dr Childress on Facebook live and saved to my YouTube channel.
If I could speak directly to the Court, what would I say?
We have YouTube. We have the Internet. I'm offering testimony as an expert within the available resources.
The only cause of severe attachment pathology (a child rejecting a parent) is child abuse by one parent or the other.
I all custody cases involving a child rejecting a parent, a proper risk assessment for child abuse needs to be conducted to the differential diagnoses of concern for each parent.
