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What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Indiana
I am not sure if I am posting this in the right section, if not please advise me as to where I'd get more results. Thank You.
There is a well known Psychologist in my area who is serving on the Indiana Board of Psychologist, Director of Behavioral Psychology at a University, a legal advisor to the County Court, on the faculty with the Family Court Judge for the GAL training program in the County, and associated with other child custody related issues in the state. This Psychologist is also appointed by the courts to do 50+ or more evaluations each year. Most of these evaluations take 3-4 years. The judge who appoints her is usually the one that she is in the GAL training program with. Also, she knows every GAL in the county, because she provides their training.
Since this Psychologist provides training to the GALs should she be the evaluator for their cases as well?
This Psychologist believes in PAS. She teaches PAS. She does not take accurate notes, finds that the father should have custody even in cases of DV where dad is the perp about 90% of the time. The judges follow her recommendations what appears to be 100% of the time. (I've done HOURS) of research.
Is it ethical for the judge to repeatedly appoint this Psychologist as the evaluator ? Is there anything unethical about any of this? It appears that this Psychologist has her hand in everything. She was even involved with the board that wrote the IPTG. Shouldn't there be some boundaries?
She seems to be the only person willing to step up and do all of these things, but her evaluations are horrible. She asks the dad in every case about everything that the mom said. She has sentences in her reports that are the same. The background info changes, and the names of the people involved change, but I have 3 reports that were written by her about different people. Her conclusion is the same in all 3. There are identical sentences in all 3.
What if anything can be done about this? Whose attention do I bring it to? Do I have to find more mothers that were involved in evaluations with her? I have 10 at this time. Nine out of 10 lost custody. The one who didn't had a different judge. I retained sole legal and physical custody until this matter went in front of the judge that the Psychologist works with on the GAL educational committee.
I know that she is supposed to be impartial, but it seems to me that there is a huge problem in Indiana. HUGE! What can I do with this info?
I also found records of campaign donations to the judge in question. Nice!
I am not sure if I am posting this in the right section, if not please advise me as to where I'd get more results. Thank You.
There is a well known Psychologist in my area who is serving on the Indiana Board of Psychologist, Director of Behavioral Psychology at a University, a legal advisor to the County Court, on the faculty with the Family Court Judge for the GAL training program in the County, and associated with other child custody related issues in the state. This Psychologist is also appointed by the courts to do 50+ or more evaluations each year. Most of these evaluations take 3-4 years. The judge who appoints her is usually the one that she is in the GAL training program with. Also, she knows every GAL in the county, because she provides their training.
Since this Psychologist provides training to the GALs should she be the evaluator for their cases as well?
This Psychologist believes in PAS. She teaches PAS. She does not take accurate notes, finds that the father should have custody even in cases of DV where dad is the perp about 90% of the time. The judges follow her recommendations what appears to be 100% of the time. (I've done HOURS) of research.
Is it ethical for the judge to repeatedly appoint this Psychologist as the evaluator ? Is there anything unethical about any of this? It appears that this Psychologist has her hand in everything. She was even involved with the board that wrote the IPTG. Shouldn't there be some boundaries?
She seems to be the only person willing to step up and do all of these things, but her evaluations are horrible. She asks the dad in every case about everything that the mom said. She has sentences in her reports that are the same. The background info changes, and the names of the people involved change, but I have 3 reports that were written by her about different people. Her conclusion is the same in all 3. There are identical sentences in all 3.
What if anything can be done about this? Whose attention do I bring it to? Do I have to find more mothers that were involved in evaluations with her? I have 10 at this time. Nine out of 10 lost custody. The one who didn't had a different judge. I retained sole legal and physical custody until this matter went in front of the judge that the Psychologist works with on the GAL educational committee.
I know that she is supposed to be impartial, but it seems to me that there is a huge problem in Indiana. HUGE! What can I do with this info?
I also found records of campaign donations to the judge in question. Nice!