Sunday Coffee w/ Dr. Childress: Child Therapy Foundations

[@tuvoca825]

Thank you again, for another Sunday talk!

[@delducja]

I very much look forward to learning what effective neuro-developmental child therapy looks like. I am excited to understand this! Thank you!

[@jdjenny]

THANK YOU, Dr. Childress.

[@TheLornatube]

Thank you Dr Childress. I feel that, in the UK, we have Cafcass...who do their best BUT are drastically under qualified and not trained to diagnose the pathologies underlying child and target parent psychological abuse. Because of that they go with The Child's voice as being authentic. So, from your video, I can see that they then become part of the 'reenactment of that child abuse, because in a factitious disorder the child's voice has become part of the delusion shared by the allied/abusive range parent. This is so sad because it is leaving many children in emotionally abusive situations which pass the trauma of the allied/abusive parent onto the next generation. And there is nothing a target parent can do to protect the child because of the court's position.

[@nath1284]

UK targeted parents and our children are completely neglected, harmed and oppressed by the services we expect to safeguard our children and ourselves. They are knowingly ignoring this pathology and adding to the harms. The families are being crushed and need their personal power returned Dr Childress and OP I thank you for raising more people's expectation of the professionals. Nobody can believe our story. I am too overwhelmed and exhausted to take the steps down adversarial routes (what is probably hoped in turning backs and closing doors - we'll just go away one way or another....) yet I feel passionately that we deserve better than this, especially our kids so seriously show me where to sign if we can help one another in some way to make change happen. We have to sort this out and despite disabilities and trauma preventing me from doing well functionally the brain is still working...

[@angela_ruberto]

Another excellent session imparting knowledge. This would have been a question on my list - so tick, tick, tick. Makes me so sad. How do you tell a good therapist - they fix the problem. They sure as hell don't leave one parent out of the process, align with a toxic parent and speak about matters they don't understand. A therapist I know told a parent they shouldn't worry about not having contact, they did their job by being around for the first 5 years. Ignorant and lacking empathy.

[@TheLornatube]

Thank you again. What i cant understand why nobody else sees this...when it all makes perfect sense and fits with whats happening...

[@bryalee2782]

I like this however, if the attachment parent has serious fictitious delusional disorder can we teach them how to parent ? is anything going to be viable? or do we get them out of the picture and let the other more balanced ranged parent take over ? what is the template if the Custodial Parent is seriously mentally ill? How does pathologies not transfer in this case?

[@TheLornatube]

I don't know what Dr Childress' answer to this would be, but in the UK there's a psychiatrist, called Professor Kingdon, who specialises in delusional disorders and he seems to say 'that for some patients exploring delusional beliefs, strong beliefs that they worry about, cause great concern....by exploring those beliefs and understanding where they come from can be helpful and help them move on. At the moment, in UK, the family courts...because Cafcass, barristers are not qualified or trained to recognise DSM5 child psychological abuse, they are rewarding delusional behaviour...which must reinforce the delusion rather than try and work with it. Ps I am not a qualified MH professional only a Grandma with an interest in this area.

[@jdjenny]

@bryalee I’ve heard Dr. Childress discuss this in prior videos.