The Case of Nightmare in Hostage Hills: A Practitioners Guide to the Assessment and Treatment of Victims of Batterers/Abusers/Narcissists
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“Signs, symptoms, and strategies judges, lawyers, doctors, nurses, school officials, police officers, caregivers, supervisors, family members, and mental health professionals must be well-versed in for Rule of law to prevail to protect children and families from predation by these savage abusers.” “They are as likely to be very popular as they are to be "losers," and they may be visible in our communities for their professional success and for their civic involvement. Most friends, family, and associates in a batterer's life find it jarring when they hear what he has done, and may deny that he is capable of those acts.” {Understanding the Batterer in Custody and Visitation Disputes, Bancroft, 1998, p.2} -Has he ever launched false allegations about you to your family, friends, police, therapists, etc.? -Has your husband ever said anything to you in front of your children to influence your children’s minds against you? Has he accused you of having affairs in front of them when, in fact, he is the unfaithful spouse? -Has the narcissist ever treated you like a leper or dehumanized you or pretended you were invisible? How did that make you feel? Can you share with me some of these events?”
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This is the “Go-To” Providers’ Practice manual for ethical, lawful, and clinically sound professional practice in the assessment and treatment of children and families enduring narcissistic abuse where I illustrate the cluster of personality characteristics of abusers and demonstrate their pattern of battering and abuse tactics laying it all out clearly for providers to accurately assess the criminal behavior by a narcissist/batterer before children become absorbed into the hate campaign for their other parent and left in toxic dangerous home environments at risk for death and/or serious psychological injury which lasts a lifetime.
About the Author
Margaret FitzGerald, L.C.S.W. is a licensed clinical social worker in private practice and editor of Nightmare in Hostage Hills. As a friend of Christina Mask, author of her and her children’s true story detailed in Nightmare in Hostage Hills, I have written a Professional Practice Manual for practitioners which details all the wrong steps by various professionals in a custody court case, the correct assessment tools-interviews, checklists, laws enforced, therapeutic directives, etc that should have been done, and finally how to implement these evidence-based interventions to protect children and their mothers from abuse by law and by professional clinical practice.