(Greg Hanson) wrote in message . com...
Who at a Child Protection agency is qualified and
bonded (malpractice) to interpret such a test?

It's Voo Doo.

Keep in mind that most CPS caseworkers are NOT
even licensed or qualified Social Workers.

That is correct. The public won't pay for them.

If they WERE, they would quickly be aware that
even they are NOT qualified to interpret such
a survey, for doing so violates ethical code.

Licensed "qualified" as in MSWs, social workers would not be qualified
to to interpret a stess survey? Odd, they are not only allowed to it
is part of their job and they are recognized as such by insurance
companies they may bill directly for services to clients.

Where do you get such odd information?

It's unethical for an unqualified person to
interpret such stuff, but they can "play dumb".

Well, if MSWs are "qualified" how can they be unqualified?

And the "stuff" comes with scoring guidelines, as a package. You've
never actually seen psychological testing instruments, have you?

They are not "interpreted" they are scored, for the most part and the
scores are then interpreted by psychologists and psychiatrists...if
they need to be. Low scores usually aren't looked at, since they don't
indicate a preeminent issue.

I would challenge you to prove any reliable
means for an unskilled, unqualified person
to predict human behavior.

Well, let me see. I'll give it a try.

How about an unskilled unqualified person deciding that a child losses
bladder control in defiance of the caregiver and can be made to stop
that defiance by punishment without unwanted side effects?

How about an unskilled unqualified person teaching others how to spank
so as to control the future behavior of children?

With the education that CPS caseworkers have,
they might as well be reading tea leaves,
chicken entrails or astrological signs.

With the education some parents, and some gigolos have they might as
well be palm readers.

Actually most states have fairly extensive training both preservice
and ongoing for caseworkers. Training budgets for the past five years
have been being cut drastically though.

Makes the quality of trainers go down too.

Do you think by cutting budgets to the point CPS becomes less
effective it proves that CPS is at fault and should be dismantled?

Reforms usually come with funding to support the reform.

All of the pro-CPS defenses come up because
you people know that such instruments are
unethical garbage.

Well, I believe I posted a long list of "instruments" by citation of a
search. Are you prepared to tell the social scientists they are wrong
and you are right?

http://tinyurl.com/3bqjf

Are you prepared to argue that stress is not a factor in performance?
Interesting that the military disagrees with you, and the medical
profession recognizes stress as being a significant health factor in
organ functioning.

Tools for measuring stress are very old and very well tested by
impirical evidence.

Even biorythms, a late arrival on the scene, have been so thoroughly
tested that governments use them to predict and control risk losses.
Pilots, taxi drivers, and others with jobs where public safety is a
factor, are dispatched with stress/performance/risk testing outcomes
in mind. And it REDUCES loss.

Ask the Japanese government and Germany for that matter.

YOu are a pontificating spouting little narcissistic puke involved in
this ng for the sole purpose of attracting attention to yourself as
surely as children "misbehave" to get attention....only with them it's
normal and healthy usually.

You have used a child, stolen from her actually, to further and
enhance your own pathologies when you, and she, and her mother would
be better off if you went and surrendered yourself to a battery of
tests and the attendant treatments....though narcissists usually go to
their grave uncured, a burden and severe cost to most who come in
contact with them.

If they have extraordinary talents sometimes, as with Picasso, the
contribution they make to society is worth it, while in other
instances, all they do is stick to the furniture they plant themselves
on while hoping to attract swirls of attention by actions such as you
posting here.

Usenet, and the Internet in general, is, by allowing an outlet that
makes the sick sicker by unfettered exercise of their pathology, a
burden to humanity...but then it does have some social payoff, so we
put up with you.

Get out of that home. It's not yours. It, and the mother there, belong
to the little girl. Not you, you sick ****.

Kane