First off, Welcome!
The elders are not qualified for anything is my personal experience with them. My wife insisted we call them over to discuss her daughter's issues. She was physically and sexually assaulting the middle child and had begun looking with an evil eye toward the newborn. It was determined that she needed a psychological evaluation and my wife asked that I call the elders.
They came, two of them. One of them is my wife's fleshly brother. They listened to the story and told us they could not tell us what to do, or even give us any guidance since this was a medical matter and they left. When the other elder left, my brother in law started in by telling me his opinion. How we BETTER NOT take her for an evaluation and blah blah blah, to pray and wait on jah to fix things.
I told him that I was not about to allow the other kids to suffer at her hands and would do what I had to do to make her well and protect the boys. He got all huffy and said that I better not take her to a psychiatrist or else. So I asked him if he wanted her in his house then, With his kids and he said no, so I told him that since him and his boe were impotent as a group that he should shut his mouth and keep it shut.
He got mad and left. What I pulled away from this is that they are not qualified for anything. So if I need a cop I call a cop. If I need a doctor I call a doctor. And if I need spiritual help I pray and never, ever call a jw!!