Introducing CAPA — Child Attachment Pathology Assessment
A structured clinical interview and documentation instrument for identifying attachment pathology in a child who has been turned against a parent. Built on established theory. DSM-5 V995.51.
Launch the Assessment → For licensed clinicians. Assessment opens in a secure session.CAPA is a structured clinical interview and documentation protocol — not a standalone diagnosis. It guides a child through an age-appropriate, avatar-led interview, produces a verbatim timestamped transcript, and organizes the findings around three established diagnostic indicators for a reviewing clinician to assess. Every session is documented as a tamper-evident evidence package.
CAPA organizes the interview around three indicators drawn from the attachment and family-systems literature — the pattern seen when a child is turned against a loving parent.
The child's natural attachment to a parent is suppressed or shut down — the drive to seek comfort and connection is overridden.
Emerging personality-structure features and phobic-level anxiety toward the targeted parent — fear and rejection out of proportion to any real history.
An encapsulated, fixed belief about the targeted parent — all-bad, absolute, and resistant to contrary evidence.
CAPA is built for professional and legal settings. Each session produces a structured, tamper-evident record.
Every question and response, timestamped, captured as clinical documentation.
A cryptographic fingerprint that detects any later alteration of the record.
Up to three licensed reviewers assess independently — establishing inter-rater reliability.
Secure view-only links for authorized parties, with every access permanently logged.
A structured instrument to interview the child, document findings, and organize them around a recognized framework.
A documented, tamper-evident record of the child's own words, prepared for review by a qualified clinician.
Independent multi-clinician review and logged access, built to support reliability in a legal setting.
Full clinical administration of CAPA is included with Professional and Founding membership in US Psychology Organization.