A Primer for Cross-Examining Mental Health Professionals

With well-established boards in place in each of the three major mental health professions, what stimulated the proliferation of credential-granting boards? And why would mental health practitioners seeking recognition of advanced education and training in a specialty area present their credentials to one of the newer, non-traditional boards? A dispassionate examination of our culture provides at least a partial answer. Many of those wishing to lose weight seek to do so without diet or exercise. Many of those wishing for wealth seek to obtain it by playing the lottery. Many of those who tan themselves because they like the "healthy" look are aware that there is nothing remotely healthy about their tans, but seek 'the look' nevertheless. It should not surprise us that many of those who wish to be perceived as proficient in a specialty would prefer the appearance of proficiency to the reality of proficiency because the look can be obtained much more easily.

27 minute read May 26, 2005 at 02:09 PM
By
David Martindale
A Primer for Cross-Examining Mental Health Professionals

The involvement of mental health professionals in the adjudication of custody disputes is a relatively new phenomenon. Three decades ago, there were fewer than a dozen books written by and for mental health practitioners, offering information concerning evaluation methods and related matters.

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