Social Workers, Counsellors and other Health Care Professionals
Although there are many highly qualified and caring social workers, counsellors and other health care professionals, unfortunately, there are a number of those who are known to provide one-sided reports favourable to anyone who is willing to pay the price for their services. These unethical third parties will distort and manipulate the facts in a manner intended to conceal the behaviour of the
hostile-aggressive parent while exaggerating any minor faults of the other parent. In some cases these unethical persons will submit false allegations and slander the parent they are trying to paint as a bad parent. Quite often, when children are exhibiting behaviour problems because of the actions of a custodial HAP parent, these professionals will claim that the non-custodial parent is inducing these behaviours into the children. Even though the non-custodial parent has little time to be of influence on the child, they will attempt to blame the non-custodial parent.
Hostile-aggressive parents will often take their children to these contracted professionals after coaching the children to say certain things about the other parent when they are in the presence of these hired professionals. The report done by these types of professionals is then used in court by the hostile-aggressive parent against the other parent to further harm and in some cases completely sever the relationship between the child and the other parent. Some parents have reported that some third parties demand more money to continue their work or threaten to not finish their report. Many parents who have reached the end of their financial abilities, drop out of the game, leaving the children stranded, often with the children being put in the care of the parent with resources to make it through the financial war. It has been widely reported and there is evidence to support the position that some social workers, including those working for government sanctioned agencies, have biases which result in highly inaccurate and flawed reports.
Listed below are just some of the indicators that should possibly raise concerns with third parties who work with children. The issue of unethical persons who work with children is more effectively covered in other literature. Some of these warning indicators would include:
• Will provide counselling or therapy with the child upon the consent of only one parent without giving the other parent the opportunity to be involved in the process within a reasonable period of time after first meeting the child.
• Will make damaging statements about a child’s relationship with a parent based on hearsay evidence from one parent and without ever calling the other parent and providing the other parent the opportunity to meet the professionals with the child.
• Do not have an established place of business that they provide services from.
• Do not have published criteria, risk indicators or procedures they follow when doing work or are unwilling to provide copies of these tools for review.
• Make claims and statements about children or parents in areas of expertise that they are not properly qualified or licensed to make.
hostile-aggressive parent while exaggerating any minor faults of the other parent. In some cases these unethical persons will submit false allegations and slander the parent they are trying to paint as a bad parent. Quite often, when children are exhibiting behaviour problems because of the actions of a custodial HAP parent, these professionals will claim that the non-custodial parent is inducing these behaviours into the children. Even though the non-custodial parent has little time to be of influence on the child, they will attempt to blame the non-custodial parent.
Hostile-aggressive parents will often take their children to these contracted professionals after coaching the children to say certain things about the other parent when they are in the presence of these hired professionals. The report done by these types of professionals is then used in court by the hostile-aggressive parent against the other parent to further harm and in some cases completely sever the relationship between the child and the other parent. Some parents have reported that some third parties demand more money to continue their work or threaten to not finish their report. Many parents who have reached the end of their financial abilities, drop out of the game, leaving the children stranded, often with the children being put in the care of the parent with resources to make it through the financial war. It has been widely reported and there is evidence to support the position that some social workers, including those working for government sanctioned agencies, have biases which result in highly inaccurate and flawed reports.
Listed below are just some of the indicators that should possibly raise concerns with third parties who work with children. The issue of unethical persons who work with children is more effectively covered in other literature. Some of these warning indicators would include:
• Will provide counselling or therapy with the child upon the consent of only one parent without giving the other parent the opportunity to be involved in the process within a reasonable period of time after first meeting the child.
• Will make damaging statements about a child’s relationship with a parent based on hearsay evidence from one parent and without ever calling the other parent and providing the other parent the opportunity to meet the professionals with the child.
• Do not have an established place of business that they provide services from.
• Do not have published criteria, risk indicators or procedures they follow when doing work or are unwilling to provide copies of these tools for review.
• Make claims and statements about children or parents in areas of expertise that they are not properly qualified or licensed to make.