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    The document discusses the need for mental health professionals involved in child custody cases to have competence in areas related to family systems, attachment, personality disorders, and complex trauma. It argues that without this competence, professionals cannot properly assess or treat issues that result in children being psychologically abused and alienated from a parent. The letter requests that the licensing board support a petition to the APA to establish domains of required knowledge for professionals working in these cases and to convene experts to address these issues.

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    01/16/2018 
     
    Brig Zimmerman 
    Executive Director, Healthcare I 
    Office of Secretary of State 
    Professional Licensing Boards Division 
    237 Coliseum Drive 
    Macon, GA 31217‐3858 
    478‐207‐2440 
    866‐284‐2237 (Fax) 

    RE: Lack of Professional Competence Regarding Pathogenic Parenting


     
    Greetings Mr. Zimmerman, 
     
    I am an advocate for children that have been subjected to emotional and psychological abuse and alienated
    from a parent (half of their family). I am writing you to seek your support and that of the Georgia
    Professional Licensing Boards Division.

    As you know, there are many reasons why a child can be alienated from a parent but the least of these
    should be professional incompetence in the field of psychology. Mental health professionals that lack a
    thorough background in family attachment systems are frequently appointed by courts to diagnose and
    treat parent-child relationship problems. Because these mental health professionals are unable to recognize
    the counterintuitive symptoms of pathogenic parenting, to the detriment of society, children are being left
    in the care and custody of psychologically and emotionally abusive parents. As with any form of abuse,
    the cycle repeats with each succeeding generation.

    Competence in the Attachment System

    Mental health professionals who are assessing, diagnosing, and treating attachment-related pathology need
    to be professionally knowledgeable and competent in the attachment system, what it is, how it functions,
    and how it characteristically dysfunctions.

    Failure to possess professional-level knowledge regarding the attachment system when assessing,
    diagnosing, and treating attachment-related pathology would represent practice beyond the boundaries of
    professional competence in violation of professional standards of practice.

    Competence in Personality Disorder Pathology

    Mental health professionals who are assessing, diagnosing, and treating personality disorder related
    pathology as it is affecting family relationships need to be professionally knowledgeable and competent
    in personality disorder pathology, what it is, how it functions, and how it characteristically affects family
    relationships following divorce.

    Failure to possess professional-level knowledge regarding personality disorder pathology when assessing,
    diagnosing, and treating personality disorder related pathology in the family would represent practice
    beyond the boundaries of professional competence in violation of professional standards of practice.

    Competence in Family Systems Therapy

    Mental health professionals who are assessing, diagnosing, and treating families need to be professionally
    knowledgeable and competent in the functioning of family systems and the principles of family systems
    therapy.

    Failure to possess professional-level knowledge regarding the functioning of family systems and the
    principles of family systems therapy when assessing, diagnosing, and treating family pathology would
    represent practice beyond the boundaries of professional competence in violation of professional standards
    of practice.

    Competence in Complex Trauma

    Mental health professionals who are assessing, diagnosing, and treating the trans-generational
    transmission of complex trauma need to be professionally knowledgeable and competent in the nature of
    complex trauma, as expressed both individually and through family relationships.

    Failure to possess professional-level knowledge regarding the trans-generational transmission and


    expression of complex trauma when assessing, diagnosing, and treating family pathology involving
    complex trauma would represent practice beyond the boundaries of professional competence in violation
    of professional standards of practice.

    Petition to the APA

    Children and families are being destroyed by unchecked professional negligence, incompetence and poor
    ethical conduct. It is my desire that you and the licensing board endorse and support Dr. Craig Childress’
    Petition to the APA. This petition seeks defined domains of professional knowledge and competence in
    the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of children and families surrounding divorce.

    The petition also calls on the American Psychology Association to convene a high-level conference of
    experts to examine the issue of attachment-related pathology surrounding divorce, and ultimately to
    convene an all-encompassing conference of experts to examine the role of professional psychology in the
    family law system and shared parenting/child custody decision-making processes.

    It is imperative, for the sake of Georgia’s children, that the licensing board adopt and implement
    procedures to safeguard the wellbeing of children.

    Kind regards,

    Gil Freeman

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