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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 358733" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>Thank you all for the support. I don't get why difficult child's court ordered mental health evaluation's consist of a short interview with him and a short discussion with the parent but the parent's evaluation consist of the written MMPI <u>only</u>. But I guess since the court people are the one who are telling the evaluator what diagnosis and treatment outcome they want to see recommended, it doesn't really matter about thorough. All they tell me is that it must be my mental health or parenting causing the problem, but my previous therapist said when the courts order a MMPI, they HAVE to tell the evaluator what they want them to look for specifically. So why won't anyone tell me what it is they are looking for? When the judge asked mme about this previous order and why I didn't go through with it, I told him that after speaking with the therapist I was seeing, I was very concerned because no one would tell me what they thought the problem was and I thought I had a right to know if there were any allegations of me doing something to cause this in my son but also, I had been told that they planned to only give the written test and not ask me about my hx or anything which can lead to a very inaccurate determination according to my therapist (supposedly the MMPI interpretations are very subjective anyway depending on whomever scores it) and I was afraid of inaccurate results and consequent orders for treatment and medications based on them. He told me he didn't care what I thought. Well then why did he ask. </p><p></p><p>Anyway, it makes me feel like I'm supposed to be their guinea pig and if the problem is that I don't buy into their methods or have faith in this system anymore, this isn't going to help that. They are not ordering parenting classes- the only thing they allude to is that it's my mental health. But they won't say they think it's depression or whatever. The judge did also mention that maybe the problem with difficult child was a parent who defied orders but that doesn't fly because difficult child had already been in the system 3 years when this order came up and I had never defied any other order. The only thing I can see behind this is my bro's previous efforts to convince them that I've always been a nut and that's difficult child's problem and that I don't buy into the MST guy's approach to things- actually that guy just rubs me the wrong way all the way around.</p><p></p><p>Anyway the judge said I had to take that test/eeval and do whatever treatment they said as a result and follow it to the T without question- I was to do whatever they told me at mental heealth. Can anyone in their right mind who is an adult and has previous experience with tdocs commit to that without knowing the diagnosis, therapist, etc up front? Oh- and since MST guy is the courts liason to mental health dept, he is the one who tells them what to look for and when I asked him last year why there would not be an oral interview between the evaluator and me to get my hx and so forth, he said he would provide all that to them. Ha! What makes this part so bad is that from what I read, the hx has to be known order to know if certain things are rational or a psychopathy in the person (if I used that term correctly). IOW, if they are looking at the parts that help determine hypochondria for instance, they have no way of knowing if the person is a hypochondriac without finding out if there is a diagnosis'd physical illness or if the illness exists only in the person't mind unless they talk to the person or look into it with someone who would know. Then there was some other section that supposedly can be interpreted inaccurately if they don't know things like the person used to be in the military, had trauma as a kid, etc. </p><p></p><p>Further- what gets to me is that they want me to do this and if I don't, my bro could end up with custody but he doesn't have to do one. So it isn't a fair custody battle where they give two parents identical evaluation's to determine which is best for the kid to live with. </p><p></p><p>It wasn't enough for them to know I'd been in therapy in the past or that I was seeing a therapist when this thing was ordered- they want to be in control of the treatment and monitor it. Ok- this just makes me paranoid because I don't know what diagnosis they think I have and Lord only knows what MST guy would tell them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 358733, member: 3699"] Thank you all for the support. I don't get why difficult child's court ordered mental health evaluation's consist of a short interview with him and a short discussion with the parent but the parent's evaluation consist of the written MMPI [U]only[/U]. But I guess since the court people are the one who are telling the evaluator what diagnosis and treatment outcome they want to see recommended, it doesn't really matter about thorough. All they tell me is that it must be my mental health or parenting causing the problem, but my previous therapist said when the courts order a MMPI, they HAVE to tell the evaluator what they want them to look for specifically. So why won't anyone tell me what it is they are looking for? When the judge asked mme about this previous order and why I didn't go through with it, I told him that after speaking with the therapist I was seeing, I was very concerned because no one would tell me what they thought the problem was and I thought I had a right to know if there were any allegations of me doing something to cause this in my son but also, I had been told that they planned to only give the written test and not ask me about my hx or anything which can lead to a very inaccurate determination according to my therapist (supposedly the MMPI interpretations are very subjective anyway depending on whomever scores it) and I was afraid of inaccurate results and consequent orders for treatment and medications based on them. He told me he didn't care what I thought. Well then why did he ask. Anyway, it makes me feel like I'm supposed to be their guinea pig and if the problem is that I don't buy into their methods or have faith in this system anymore, this isn't going to help that. They are not ordering parenting classes- the only thing they allude to is that it's my mental health. But they won't say they think it's depression or whatever. The judge did also mention that maybe the problem with difficult child was a parent who defied orders but that doesn't fly because difficult child had already been in the system 3 years when this order came up and I had never defied any other order. The only thing I can see behind this is my bro's previous efforts to convince them that I've always been a nut and that's difficult child's problem and that I don't buy into the MST guy's approach to things- actually that guy just rubs me the wrong way all the way around. Anyway the judge said I had to take that test/eeval and do whatever treatment they said as a result and follow it to the T without question- I was to do whatever they told me at mental heealth. Can anyone in their right mind who is an adult and has previous experience with tdocs commit to that without knowing the diagnosis, therapist, etc up front? Oh- and since MST guy is the courts liason to mental health dept, he is the one who tells them what to look for and when I asked him last year why there would not be an oral interview between the evaluator and me to get my hx and so forth, he said he would provide all that to them. Ha! What makes this part so bad is that from what I read, the hx has to be known order to know if certain things are rational or a psychopathy in the person (if I used that term correctly). IOW, if they are looking at the parts that help determine hypochondria for instance, they have no way of knowing if the person is a hypochondriac without finding out if there is a diagnosis'd physical illness or if the illness exists only in the person't mind unless they talk to the person or look into it with someone who would know. Then there was some other section that supposedly can be interpreted inaccurately if they don't know things like the person used to be in the military, had trauma as a kid, etc. Further- what gets to me is that they want me to do this and if I don't, my bro could end up with custody but he doesn't have to do one. So it isn't a fair custody battle where they give two parents identical evaluation's to determine which is best for the kid to live with. It wasn't enough for them to know I'd been in therapy in the past or that I was seeing a therapist when this thing was ordered- they want to be in control of the treatment and monitor it. Ok- this just makes me paranoid because I don't know what diagnosis they think I have and Lord only knows what MST guy would tell them. [/QUOTE]
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