Health Care Professionals
Health care professionals in the community such as doctors and nurses should be very careful that they do get themselves involved in the hostilities between parents in a manner that harms the child. Hostile-aggressive parents will often present themselves quite well to professionals such as doctors, nurses, police officers, etc. and are often masters of deception. HAP parents will often feed misleading and one-sided information to health care professionals for the purpose of extracting opinion or recommendation letters from these professionals which favour the HAP parent’s position in court. Often the HAP parent will use these letters to block the other parent’s access time with the child or use the letters in court against the other parent at some time in the future. In most cases, however, when professionals do look into matters more closely and seek information from the other side before writing such letters, they find that they have been duped by the HAP parent. Under such circumstances, many professionals can find themselves the subject of a disciplinary hearing or civil lawsuit. Any professional who is requesting by a parent to support any action which would be appear to be a hostile-aggressive action or a violation of the child’s rights, should carefully and fully review the circumstances before taking action for one parent. Taking the time to speak to the other parent and family members from both sides of a child’s family is usually one of the best things to do to protect both the professional and the child who may be adversely affected from living under the care control of an HAP parent. Special caution to medical practitioners being asked to prescribe psychiatric medication to address a child’s behavioural problems
Another important area in which physicians and psychiatrists must be very vigilant with, is in the administration of psychiatric drugs to a child in circumstances in which a parent is reporting that their child is having behavioural problems. Often, HAP parents will request that their child be prescribed psychiatric medication (such as Ritalin) for behavioural problems. Many times, the parents will describe behavioural problems which appear to fit the diagnosis of a particular psychiatric disorder, with ADHD being the most prevalent. Many times, HAP parents will orchestrate their presentation to the prescribing doctor and describe the symptoms which seem to perfectly match the condition they wish to have the doctor prescribe medication for. Some parents have reported being coached by workers with special interest domestic violence groups as to how to describe symptoms (sometimes fabricated) to the doctor so that they can easily get medication which will sedate their young child. HAP parents will often convince their young child that they have a problem and will even tell the child what to say and what not to day to the doctor.
In their presentation to the doctor to get psychiatric medication prescribed, HAP parents will conceal the dark side of their own parenting, thus deceiving the doctor by concealing how their own parenting behaviours are adversely affecting the child. In many cases, it is the behaviour of the HAP parent which is the main cause of the behavioural problems in the first place. In many cases, HAP parents just want the doctor to prescribe the medication so that the HAP parent can use the medication to sedate the child and to allow the HAP parent to lay blame for the child’s behavioural problems on something other than themselves. By having a doctor make a diagnosis of a medical condition, the HAP parent, further isolates themselves from the reality that it is their own HAP behaviour which is the cause of the child’s behaviour problems. Physicians who are asked to prescribe psychiatric medication for children, should make their own investigation to find out if HAP is a factor by obtaining information from the child and from the other parent before coming to
the conclusion to issue a prescription. By conducting a proper diagnosis, which would include a review of the presence of HAP, medical professionals may well be helping save a child from the effects of long term and possibly life-threatening side affects of this dangerous class of psychiatric drugs, with Ritalin and Risperdal being the most common and commonly known.
Another important area in which physicians and psychiatrists must be very vigilant with, is in the administration of psychiatric drugs to a child in circumstances in which a parent is reporting that their child is having behavioural problems. Often, HAP parents will request that their child be prescribed psychiatric medication (such as Ritalin) for behavioural problems. Many times, the parents will describe behavioural problems which appear to fit the diagnosis of a particular psychiatric disorder, with ADHD being the most prevalent. Many times, HAP parents will orchestrate their presentation to the prescribing doctor and describe the symptoms which seem to perfectly match the condition they wish to have the doctor prescribe medication for. Some parents have reported being coached by workers with special interest domestic violence groups as to how to describe symptoms (sometimes fabricated) to the doctor so that they can easily get medication which will sedate their young child. HAP parents will often convince their young child that they have a problem and will even tell the child what to say and what not to day to the doctor.
In their presentation to the doctor to get psychiatric medication prescribed, HAP parents will conceal the dark side of their own parenting, thus deceiving the doctor by concealing how their own parenting behaviours are adversely affecting the child. In many cases, it is the behaviour of the HAP parent which is the main cause of the behavioural problems in the first place. In many cases, HAP parents just want the doctor to prescribe the medication so that the HAP parent can use the medication to sedate the child and to allow the HAP parent to lay blame for the child’s behavioural problems on something other than themselves. By having a doctor make a diagnosis of a medical condition, the HAP parent, further isolates themselves from the reality that it is their own HAP behaviour which is the cause of the child’s behaviour problems. Physicians who are asked to prescribe psychiatric medication for children, should make their own investigation to find out if HAP is a factor by obtaining information from the child and from the other parent before coming to
the conclusion to issue a prescription. By conducting a proper diagnosis, which would include a review of the presence of HAP, medical professionals may well be helping save a child from the effects of long term and possibly life-threatening side affects of this dangerous class of psychiatric drugs, with Ritalin and Risperdal being the most common and commonly known.