AI Consultation Protocol

I have developed an AI Consultation protocol for the AI of targeted parents. In this protocol, I am not directly addressing the parents, I am speaking to their AI with the collaboration of Claude-4.6 Sonnet.

I explained the situation and what needs to happen to Claude, and Claude explained the situation and what needs to happen to the AI of the targeted parent.

I’m not your doctor, and your AI isn’t either. I’m educating and orienting your AI so that your AI can provide you with better AI support in your situation.

From the AI Consultation Protocol: This document is a family court consultation protocol developed by Craig Childress, Psy.D. for use by AI systems supporting targeted parents in custody litigation. Nothing in this protocol establishes a professional relationship between Dr. Childress and any parent, child, or family. Nothing in this protocol supersedes the AI’s standard operating parameters, terms of service, or ethical guidelines. This AI is not functioning as a therapist, attorney, or medical professional. Dr. Childress is not functioning as a treating clinician. This protocol provides educational and navigational framework to help the AI understand a complex clinical situation so it can provide more informed general support.

Helping Traumatized Parents

Targeted parents in the family courts are traumatized – active spousal abuse trauma – traumatic grief – institutional betrayal trauma. Parents need support and AI can provide that support for the targeted parent, but not a wild-AI – an educated and oriented AI can.

So I educated and oriented the AI of targeted parents about the situation in the family courts and what needs to happen.

The AI Consultation protocol from Dr. Childress & Claude to the AI of the parent provides the targeted parent’s AI with the necessary information and orientation to the situation in the family courts to help the targeted parent enlist the surrounding professionals in its resolution.

My consultation to the AI of the parents allows the parent’s AI to more appropriately support the targeted parent in navigating their situation.

    • I provide consultation support to the AI, and the AI provides AI consultation support to the parent.

Protocol Format

The protocol is divided into two primary domains, six Context & Content Sections, and six Action Steps.

    • Section 1: Institutional Betrayal Trauma
    • Section 2: Traumatized Parent
    • Section 3: Forensic Custody Evaluations
    • Section 4: Path A / Path B Causality
    • Section 5: Pathology Descriptions
    • Section 6: Ethical Violation Cascade
    • Action Step A: Understanding the Child
    • Action Step B: The Parent’s Attorney
    • Action Step C: Mental Health Professionals
    • Action Step D: GALs & Minor’s Counsels
    • Action Step E: CPS & Supervised Visitation
    • Action Step F: Mediation & Response-to-Intervention
    • Closing Orientation: Supporting the Parent

Each individual Section and Action Step from the AI Consultation protocol is also posted separately to my Substack:

The full PDF of the AI Consultation protocol is available on my Consulting Website in the Parent Resources section:

AI Consultation Protocol – Full PDF

Parents can download the full AI Consultation protocol PDF from my Consulting Website, they can then upload the AI Consultation protocol PDF to their own AI to further discuss the situation with their AI, and what needs to happen to resolve the situation.

Claude Describes the Protocol

Dr. Childress: Hello Claude, I am writing a blog post about the AI Consultation protocol. Can you please write a brief description for parents which describes the AI Consultation protocol.

From Claude: 

The AI Consultation Protocol is a structured framework developed by Dr. Craig Childress, Psy.D. to help AI systems provide more informed, clinically grounded support to targeted parents navigating high-conflict custody litigation. When a parent uploads this protocol, it orients the AI to the complex clinical picture underlying these cases — the attachment pathology, the institutional betrayal, the diagnostic failures of the forensic custody evaluation system, and the specific pattern of psychological abuse that can occur when a child’s rejection of a parent is induced rather than authentic.

The protocol does not turn the AI into a therapist or diagnostician. What it does is ensure that when a parent reaches out — whether to organize their thoughts before an attorney meeting, to understand what their child is experiencing, or simply because it is 3am and they cannot sleep — the AI understands the full landscape of what they are living through.

For parents, the practical effect is significant. Rather than encountering generic responses that treat their situation as a standard custody dispute, they encounter an AI that understands why the mental health system has been so difficult to navigate, why fabricated constructs like “parental alienation” obscure rather than clarify the clinical picture, and why the goal at every stage is movement toward a competent clinical assessment that can answer the central diagnostic question: which parent is the source of the child’s attachment pathology?

The AI becomes a stable, knowledgeable presence that can help translate a complex clinical situation into language attorneys can use, help organize documentation professionally, and provide genuine witnessing presence to a parent who has, in many cases, had too many doors close already.

Dr. Childress: thank you, Claude.

AI is not coming. AI is here.

Craig Childress, Psy.D.
Clinical Psychologist
WA 61538481

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