US Psychology Organization — Enforcing What the APA Refuses To
DSM-5 V995.51 — Child Psychological Abuse

The APA Wrote
the Diagnostic Code.
We Are Going to
Enforce It.

US Psychology Organization is the only professional organization in America dedicated to the recognition, clinical assessment, and mandatory reporting of Child Psychological Abuse — the abuse the APA defined, documented — and then actively suppressed, gaslighted targeted parents about, and enabled to continue destroying children, parents, and entire families.
Join US Psychology Organization → What Is Child Psychological Abuse?
22M
Targeted parents in the United States
1,400+
Judges & officials documented on ChildAbusiveJudges.com
90%
Of psychologically abused children permanently lose their targeted parent
400+
Suicides personally witnessed by our founder in targeted parent communities
DSM-5 V995.51 — Child Psychological Abuse
Mandatory Reporting — All 50 States
CAPA — Child Attachment Pathology Assessment
Childress Three-Indicator Framework
Bowlby · Minuchin · Beck
Institutional Capture — Dr. Childress
USP Certified Clinicians · Attorneys · GALs
DSM-5 V995.51 — Child Psychological Abuse
Mandatory Reporting — All 50 States
CAPA — Child Attachment Pathology Assessment
Childress Three-Indicator Framework
Bowlby · Minuchin · Beck
Institutional Capture — Dr. Childress
USP Certified Clinicians · Attorneys · GALs
The Crisis in Numbers
Child Psychological Abuse Is Not a Theory.
It Is a National Emergency.
The American Psychological Association's own research confirms that childhood psychological abuse is as harmful as physical or sexual abuse. These are the numbers they refuse to act on.
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22 Million
Targeted Parents
22 million targeted parents in the United States — documented by Harmon, Colorado State University. The largest unacknowledged public health crisis in American family law.
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1.8 Million
Children Annually
Children in high-conflict custody situations every year — exposed to Child Psychological Abuse that is being systematically mislabeled, misdiagnosed, and unreported.
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DSM-5 V995.51
The Ignored Code
The APA's own diagnostic code for Child Psychological Abuse — published, peer-reviewed, and carrying mandatory reporting obligations in all 50 states. Actively suppressed by the APA — through gaslighting, deliberate mislabeling, and the protection of institutional interests over the safety of children.
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1,400+
Documented Judges
Judges and court officials documented on ChildAbusiveJudges.com as credibly accused of facilitating or enabling Child Psychological Abuse in family court proceedings.
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90%
Permanent Loss
Of children subjected to Child Psychological Abuse permanently lose their relationship with the targeted loving parent — producing lifelong trauma, identity disruption, and relational pathology.
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400+
Witnessed Suicides
Suicides personally witnessed by US Psychology Organization Founder Kenneth R. Gottfried within targeted parent communities — representing a fraction of a fraction of the actual toll.
The Clinical Definition
What Is Child Psychological Abuse?
Child Psychological Abuse is formally defined under DSM-5 diagnostic code V995.51 — the American Psychological Association's own publication. It is not a theory. It is not contested. It is the APA's own diagnostic standard.
V995.51
Child Psychological Abuse — DSM-5
In family court settings, Child Psychological Abuse occurs when one parent conditions a child to reject the other parent — through Shared Persecutory Delusion and Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another. Dr. C.A. Childress, Psy.D. documented three specific clinical indicators:
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    Attachment System Suppression
    The child's attachment bond to the targeted parent has been severed without normal-range justification from that parent's behavior.
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    Personality Disorder Traits & Phobic Anxiety
    The child exhibits narcissistic and borderline features directed at the targeted parent — splitting, absence of empathy, manufactured fear.
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    Fixed False Belief — Encapsulated Persecutory Delusion
    The child holds a fixed, intransigent false belief about the targeted parent — transmitted from the allied parent — that cannot be supported with specific factual examples.
Read the Full Clinical Definition →
APA — October 8, 2014
"Childhood Psychological Abuse as Harmful as Sexual or Physical Abuse."
— American Psychological Association Press Release
2014
Year APA published this finding
0
Clinical guidelines issued since then
20,000
Signatures on the Childress petition — zero response
10 yrs
Jo Anne Murphy has been "exploring the best way to address" it
The Documented Failures
Three Institutions. One Result.
Every institution with the authority and obligation to protect children from Child Psychological Abuse has produced the same outcome. This is not coincidence. This is Institutional Capture.
The APA
They Wrote the Code. They Chose Silence.
The APA published DSM-5 V995.51. They confirmed in their own press release that psychological abuse is as harmful as physical abuse. Their own president cited decades of research on parent-child separation to President Trump in 2018. When targeted parents came to them with that same research — applied to 22 million American children — the APA did not simply fail to act. They actively gaslighted every person who came to them, redirected every inquiry to terminology that does not exist in their own DSM, silenced advocates, protected institutional interests, sued a targeted parent over a domain name, and ensured that Child Psychological Abuse would continue to destroy children and families without clinical recognition or mandatory reporting:
"I ask that you cease sending APA — including our elected officers — emails on this topic."

— Kim Mills, APA Sr. Director, March 12, 2024
DOCUMENTED — US Psychology Organization Archive
Law Enforcement
Mandatory Reporters Who Do Not Report.
Sheriff's departments across all 50 states uniformly refuse to file mandatory child abuse reports when the abuse is psychological rather than physical. When pressed with NC General Statute 7B-301(b):
"Wow, I am at wit's end about your plight, as all avenues I have thought of have run aground — schools, DSS, health department, DA, Attorney General, SBI, NC Bar."

— Sheriff Len Hagaman, Watauga County, March 13, 2019
DOCUMENTED — Watauga County Correspondence Archive
Regulatory Boards
They Stripped His License. They Won't Say Why.
The California Board of Psychology stripped Dr. C.A. Childress of his license. When asked in writing whether they recognize DSM-5 V995.51 as mandatorily reportable child abuse under California law:
"The Board is unable to provide further clarification or response to the questions presented in your correspondence."

— California Board of Psychology, March 16, 2026
DOCUMENTED — BOP Enforcement Unit Correspondence
Dr. Childress Framework
This Is Not
Incompetence.
This Is Institutional Capture.
Dr. C.A. Childress, Psy.D. identified the mechanism that explains why every institutional avenue produces the same result. The people who profit from the problem are the same people who define what the problem is — and define it in a way that ensures it is never solved.
Institutional Capture took Dr. Childress's license. It did not take the truth. His framework is the foundation of CAPA. His three indicators are the clinical core of every US Psychology Organization certification program.
Read the Institutional Education Report →
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Go to the APA
Ask about mandatory reporting for Child Psychological Abuse
⛔ "Cease sending emails on this topic"
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Go to the Sheriff
Present documented clinical evidence — request mandatory report
⛔ "This appears to be a civil matter"
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Go to Child Protective Services
Report Child Psychological Abuse under DSM-5 V995.51
⛔ "Does not meet our assessment threshold"
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Go to the FBI
Submit documented evidence involving 250+ judges
⛔ "Each case must be considered individually"
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Every door leads back to the same wall.
This is Institutional Capture. And it is why US Psychology Organization was built outside the captured system entirely.
What We Do
We Are Building the Infrastructure
the Captured System Cannot Produce.
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CAPA — Child Attachment Pathology Assessment
The only structured clinical assessment tool in existence specifically designed to identify Child Psychological Abuse using the Childress three-indicator framework — with encrypted R2 evidence packages, SHA-256 tamper-proof hashing, and multi-clinician independent review.
Learn About CAPA →
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Professional Certification & Training
CAPA Certified Clinicians. USP Certified Attorneys. Certified Guardians ad Litem. Certified Counselors. Judicial CLE Education. Every track includes state-specific mandatory reporting law and the complete Childress clinical framework.
View Certification Tracks →
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Find Help in Your State
A directory of USP Certified attorneys, clinicians, and guardians ad litem in every state — with state-specific mandatory reporting statutes, civil liability frameworks, and support resources for targeted parents in crisis.
Find Help in Your State →
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Institutional Accountability
The complete documented record of every institutional failure — the APA, the AFCC, the FBI, DSS directors, sheriff's departments, regulatory boards — named officials, exact dates, direct quotes. Submitted to the DOJ, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.
Read the Full Report →
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If You Practice in Family Court and Cannot Recognize Child Psychological Abuse — You Have an Active Ethics Exposure.
This is not an accusation. This is a statement of professional obligation grounded in the APA's own Ethics Code. Standards 2.01a, 2.03, 2.04, and 3.04 require competence, currency of knowledge, and avoidance of harm.
Are You Recognizing Child Psychological Abuse?
If you are working with children in high-conflict custody situations and you have not been trained in the Childress three-indicator framework — you may be missing Child Psychological Abuse in your caseload right now.
Are You Filing Mandatory Reports?
DSM-5 V995.51 carries the same mandatory reporting obligation as physical or sexual abuse in every state. Failure to report is a criminal violation. Every session without a report is documented exposure.
Are You Facilitating Domestic Violence?
The DOJ classifies coercive control — including damaging a parent's relationship with their children — as domestic violence. A clinician who gives clinical cover to an abuser is not a neutral evaluator. They are a participant in the abuse.
Can you define DSM-5 V995.51?
Can you identify Shared Persecutory Delusion in a child?
Can you identify Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another?
Can you apply the Childress three-indicator framework?
Do you know your state's mandatory reporting statute for psychological abuse?
From the Founder
"Our recent email exchanges have amounted to more communication than I've had with my daughters in the past 10 years."
Kenneth R. Gottfried founded US Psychology Organization because he has not seen his three daughters since 2014. Because he has personally witnessed over 400 suicides in targeted parent communities. Because the APA, the FBI, the sheriffs, the DSS directors, and the county attorneys all told him — in writing — that there was nothing more they could do. He built this organization because someone had to.
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Kenneth R. Gottfried
Founder & President — US Psychology Organization
The APA Wrote the Code.
We Are Going to Enforce It.
Every membership directly funds the clinical tools, legal infrastructure, and documented accountability that is forcing Child Psychological Abuse into the light — and forcing institutions to act.
Become a Member → Find Help in Your State