How Family Court Engages Licensed Professionals
Lawyers, degreed experts, state licensed mental health counselors to threaten and intimidate protective parents into complying with court orders that force terrified children into meetings with their documented abuser.
Children as lab rats and the “safety plan” assessment by court-appointed so-called experts are often clearly, objectively unqualified to assess the medical, psychiatric, psychological issues presented in complex cases where abuse is asserted as a claim to be adjudicated.
Mandated by judges to “see for themselves” what they think of children who are alleged to have been horrendously neglected and or abused are another cog in the “truth test” in place. These factotum are clear that they do not want any medical or criminal records. They just want to “see the kids” – on command, without their parents.
Children are faced with once again being questioned / confronted, being forced to relive, to account for memories that have haunted them. Children left with traumatic amnesia, acute anxiety, physical / medical trauma-induced sequelae of trauma are told that these “sympathetic” figures are insisting that their abusers are misunderstood, repentant, or were falsely accused by a manipulative, advantage-seeking, vengeful parent.
The false narratives of so-called evaluators of false narratives / parental alienation suggest that they are there to “heal the family / the rifts, the misunderstandings to create a safe experience to express feelings.” They in fact create an audience for the abuser to hold sway, demonstrate power to trick, to manipulate, to see how far they can push for engagement in the name of intimidation. There is no safe environment – no safety plan – just more bills for hired help to act as cattle prodders for court-ordered transfer of abused children to be transferred into the custody of newly defined protectors / known to the children as their worst nightmare controllers and abusers.
“We want to see the children ourselves without any contamination by preconceived notions.”
A case in point involves a child who is endlessly, when in the presence of a brutally abusive, substance-addicted alcoholic parent, physically beaten, verbally castigated and cleverly tortured with demonstrations of affection for anyone / anything other than the child. The child who once craved his father’s attention is now, at age twelve, terrified into catatonic or pre-catatonic paroxysms of pain. His sister, the audience for the abuse of her brother, the subject of her father’s forced physical presence – known as “grooming” – suppresses her feelings and memories as she lives in fear of that which she knows not to remember.
The so-called credentialed, judge-appointed “therapists” – a social worker, a social worker with a doctoral degree in social work – was directed to see the children. The judge-directed appointees, knowing that the children do not wish to see them and that their presence would be overwhelmingly traumatizing (as past experiences resulted in the hospitalizations and acute emotional decompensation of both children), ignored and dismissed any attempt at discussion and demanded meetings.
Refusing to view medical and other critical case material, the judicial appointees sought to intimidate the children’s mother, raising the specter of contempt charges being lodged against her. The do-as-I-tell-you-to-do-because-the-judge-said-so dismissed all pretense of any therapeutic assessment agenda and laid the evidence of an autocratic pre-fix menu of actions, laying down the directive for child transfer to the feared / hated abuser.
“We want to see the children ourselves to assess the situation… uncontaminated by other perspectives.”
This is what the “evaluators do not want to hear”…
The arrogance of “we do not want to be influenced” because we know better than anyone else – so says the authority of the court order and the pre-fix plan in place for court orders waiting in the wings… to transfer the children into the full isolation of the abuser.
But my child has been hospitalized, suicidal, homicidal, unable to go to school, to leave the house, for fear so overwhelming that the child becomes mute, immobilized, muscles constricted, unable to speak, unable to move.
“I have hospital records and doctors’ letters… they indicate that we could lose my son to a permanent state of psychosis or catatonia…” No response.
My child has nightmares, will not sleep in her own bed, finds places to hide at night, so terrified that she will be found and dragged off. She urinates in her sleep or spontaneously, even at school, when a thought flickers through her head before she can suppress it.
My child is forced to exercise to the point that his muscles in his legs are severely and irretrievably damaged. He has been hospitalized for the musculature damage caused by abuse of forced calisthenics. Forced to play team sports with teens when he is much younger, but his father is the coach. Not even into his early teens and his body is damaged permanently by excruciating, uncontrollable pain.
There are names for the physical disorders that are induced by overwhelming trauma such as sexual assault, verbal and physical assault / secondary exposure to such assaults. These disorders overwhelm children’s psyches, induce massive lifelong consequences that include overwhelming fear, uncontrollable anxiety that can then seep into the body’s control system mechanisms. The acknowledgement of the existence of these medical / biological phenomenon must be acknowledged and taken seriously by the courts.
AMPS – Amplified Musculoskeletal Pain Syndrome
AMPS is a medical, brain-centered disorder whose symptoms include intense, persistent, and intermittent intense-to-excruciating pain anyplace or all over the subject’s body.
Pain as an alert to injury is experienced differently in subjects where the assault is global, overwhelming, encompassing all sensory perceptions, causing the nerves sending messages to the brain to be filtered and disbursed. As the system is overwhelmed and cannot differentiate, refine, sensor or control the information to be articulated, there are no defense mechanisms in place for the subject to organize and protect themselves.
PNES – Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizure Disorder
These are episodes that mimic seizures but are not caused by abnormal brain activity—rather, they are derivative manifestations of psychologically overwhelming distress.
The diagnosis of this disorder is based on ruling out physiological indicia that would explain functional symptoms. Treatment initiatives involve cognitive behavioral therapy to control an environment that is the source of beyond-control forces of overwhelmingly frightening social environmental stress and disorder.
In Conclusion
We are looking at a court system that weaponizes and monetizes criminality. Pathology feeds off of the vulnerability of subjects who need protection and care.
There is no explanation… no delay… the demand for the immediate meeting is set, as is the outcome of the meeting’s decision to introduce the children to the offender parent in what the assigned counselor refers to as a “safe environment” with a “safety plan in place” so everyone feels listened to… respected… protected.
The resounding hypocrisy, disregard of the profound terror of the child subjects, and the ripple effect over the ages of the consequences of disregard, disrespect, betrayal, inauthenticity of the never-to-be-trusted adult, and endless sense of powerlessness to seek protection or to protect one’s self has cataclysmic consequences.
A series of articles will follow this initial entry into the subjects related to the destructive power of the family court’s ability to order so-called therapeutic interventions to justify draconian, life-altering directives. The consequences of so-called therapeutic interventions by licensed practitioners issued by court directives to, in fact, carry out pre-fixe menus of court orders—whose consequences resound beyond the time tenure of the family courts—is cataclysmic in terms of personal development and decisions of the traumatized victim.
Protective parents who are themselves and their children ordered into harm’s way are not powerless, despite the immense chilling effect of the threats and intimidation imparted by court orders and directives.
The daunting authority of the family courts—when corruptly, maliciously, and lawlessly commanded under color of law to take action that is antithetical to the very survival of the subject commanded and their children—must be addressed, countered, investigated, and stopped as necessary. There are mechanisms in place to defend and protect life and liberty from induced suffering. Those mechanisms and procedures are the province of the work of the FCVFC and will be discussed in following articles to be presented.
