Parental Alienation Syndrome: A critique

A Historical Perspective on Parental Alienation Syndrome and Parental Alienation

The Parental Alienation Syndrome:

This study analyzed sixteen cases which appeared to meet Dr. Richard Gardner 's criteria for parental alienation syndrome as set forth in his 1987 book. Thesecases showed a wide diversity of characteristics but Gardner's criteria were useful in differentiating these cases from other postdivorce difficulties. Traditional interventions were ineffective in altering Ule alienation. Gardner (1985) h...

Parental Alienation Syndrome and Parental Alienation: Research Reviews

VAWnet is a project of the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence. “Given the inherent problems with even the ‘reformulated’ concept of PA, and also the fact that (1) courts and evaluators are unlikely to abandon the concept anytime soon, and (2) alienating behavior is indeed a factual reality, most often inflicted by abusive fathers, this paper offers [a] brief 7 outline of an approach ...

Rand: the Spectrum of Parental Alienation Syndrome

The Parental Alienation Syndrome, so named by Dr. Richard Gardner, is a distinctive family response to divorce in which the child becomes aligned with one parent and preoccupied with unjastified and / or exaggerated denigration of the other, target parent. In severe cases, the child's once love-bonded relationship with rejected / target parent is destroyed. Testimony on Parental Alienation Synd...

Parental Alienation Syndrome vs. Parental Alienation: Which Diagnosis Should Evaluators Use in Child-Custody Disputes?

Children who have been programmed by one parent to be alienated from the other parent are commonly seen in the context of child-custody disputes. Such programming is designed to strengthen the position of the programming parent in a court of law. Many evaluators use the term parental alienation syndrome (PAS) to refer to the disorder engendered in such children. In contrast, there are evaluator...