The Pre-Game Show

The parents and therapist play hot potato with whose fault it is the kid is messed up. (Displacement of responsibility )

Until a consensus is reached that "numerous" things caused it. (Diffusion of responsibility )

Then they label the child, as to strip the child's humanity away, because now they are defective.(Dehumanization of the enemy)

But they are defective in a certain way...making them not unique..a part of this whole defective collective of diagnosed children. (Deindividuation)

Then once the child has been diagnosed and made "aware" of their problem, behavioral therapists try to train the children how not to be BAD anymore. When the child can not comply with the wanted protocol, due to all the previous emotional turmoil of being labeled etc... they are blamed as resisting treatment. (Attribution of blame to victims)

Until finally nothing the child says is taken seriously because they are just a BAD and defective child, and everyone knows defective children aren't in their right minds, so why listen to their crazy tales. (Graduated desensitization)

This is all done in a "medical" system sanctioned by the US government, thus making it socially acceptable child abuse. (Hygenic Positioning)