Board Of Psychology Imposed Discipline On A Psychologist–So You’ll Need To Be Monitored Doctor.

When the Board of Psychology imposed discipline on a psychologist, the trial court denied the doctor’s writ petition.  The psychologist acted as a special master in a family law proceeding in California and testified in a family law proceeding in Florida.  In the California matter, he emailed one of the spouses “that he could not work with dishonesty and incorrectly accused her of perjury.”  The spouse asked him to resign as special master.  He agreed to resign but conditioned his resignation on the spouse withdrawing her grievance against him.  The Board concluded there was “general unprofessional conduct.”  In the Florida matter, the psychologist informed the judge a child at the center of a custody dispute was severely alienated from the mother and that the custody order should be changed to the mother.  The Board found the psychologist “offered an opinion about a characteristic of a child whom he had not interviewed or evaluated.”  His license was revoked but stayed revocation for five years during which time he would be monitored.  Rand v. Board of Psychology (Cal. App. Third Dist.; May 10, 2012) (As Mod. June 11, 2012) 205 Cal.App.4th 1209, [140 Cal.Rptr.3d 837].